I'm Really Just an Ordinary Person

Name: I'm Really Just an Ordinary Person
Author: Just Trying It Out 2026

我，真的只是个普通人啊

by Just Trying It Out 2026 (随便试试2026)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 521k Words
Genre: Urban
Subgenre: Urban High-Concept
Updated: 2mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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Synopsis

[Misreadings] [Literary Plagiarism] [Comedy]

Su Ji is a high school graduate from an ordinary family in Haidian. His father teaches Chinese at a middle school, and his mother is a community nurse. One day, he wakes up with the memories of his past life as a literature PhD fused with those of his present life.

After an outstanding performance on the college entrance exam, he heads south to Yangcheng to study Chinese at its top university. He opens the door to Dorm Room 404 and finds:

Roommate No. 1, Liang Jintang, the familiar, outgoing grandson of the Liang real estate family in Yangcheng;

Roommate No. 2, Huo Heng, the quiet, reserved only son of the Huo financial family in Shanghai;

Roommate No. 3, Qi Lang, heir to the Qi family's military tradition in the capital region, who goes running at five every morning.

Su Ji draws a sharp breath. My roommates are all extraordinary. I need to keep a low profile.

But the harder he tries to keep a low profile, the more the world refuses to leave him alone.

When an upperclasswoman is given a hard time, he writes a poem, “Green Jade Table: Lantern Festival Night,” and earns a place in the provincial writers' association. When a roommate falls ill, he steps in as host and recites “The Yueyang Tower,” catching the attention of CCTV. When a junior student's mother becomes gravely ill, he writes an abridged version of To Live in three nights, and the editor-in-chief of Contemporary heads south to meet him.

Every time he acts, the misunderstandings grow:

After one week, his roommates think he has “powerful connections in the capital.”

After one month, the whole department is saying he is “a distant branch of one of the Four Great Families.”

By the end of the semester, even the real old-money families are asking around: “Could this Mr. Su be that person from the imperial family?”

Yet his biggest daily worry is still that the cafeteria's braised chicken with rice has gone up by two yuan again.

He has never lied to anyone. He's just too ordinary, so ordinary that no one is willing to believe it.

One late-autumn day, someone from the imperial family finally arrives and speaks gently:

“Mr. Su, we've been looking for you for a long time.”

Su Ji raises his cup of soy milk, forcing himself to stay calm.

“You've got the wrong person, haven't you? I'm really just a test-taking student from Haidian.”

The room falls silent, then breaks into laughter.

Only a true child of heaven would dare answer like that.

Other names

The Whole Internet Is Digging for My Secret Identity, But I'm Still Counting My Meal Money全网都在扒我马甲，我还在算饭钱Alternate title on Fanqie

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206Chapters

315Reads

5.4Score

102Shelves

28Listens

65.3kReads · all time

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