My name is Lin Xianyu, an inner disciple of the Heavenly Dao Sect, and the cultivation world's undisputed “number one good person.”
I'm always the first to rush in and save someone, I have a real knack for striking a pose, and I've got a whole wall covered in commendation banners.
Then I pulled out my merit token and took a look:
Saving someone: +12.
Total merit points: -999998.
System note: Tendency toward histrionic personality (-35%), desire for recognition (-28%), posing deliberately (-15%).
Me: ???
Other people earn a hundred points for saving someone and keep such a low profile you'd never know they were there.
I earn twelve points, and get flagged for “special attention.”
Uncle Qi said, “Keep showing off like this and the Merit Sect will come to arrest you.”
I said, “Then should I keep a low profile from now on?”
Uncle Qi smacked the back of my head. “Can you change?”
I fell silent.
I couldn't.
So I decided:
Before they catch me, I'll find out what the heck this System is all about.
Then I uncovered a secret:
Leng Chan, number one on the merit list, had lived for eight hundred years without ever smiling.
I, dead last in merit, grinned like an idiot every day.
So who was the one truly “favored” by the Heavenly Dao?
And one more thing: Junior Sister, who brings me food every day, why do you leave a little flower by the door every time you drop it off?
