You Asked Me to Fix a Crummy Vocational School, and I Turned It Into the Best in the Country

[Urban Fantasy] [System] [Principal] [Campus Development] [No Romance] [Feel-Good Power Fantasy] [Comeback and Face-Slapping] [Everyone Grows] [Vocational Education] [Ensemble Cast] Three years ago, Xinghai Vocational High School was mocked across the internet as “a dumping ground for troublemakers.” Students got into fights, teachers had given up, the dorms leaked, the cafeteria food was awful, and even the sign at the school gate was peeling. At twenty-six, Shen Yan was entrusted with this crumbling vocational school in its hour of need and became its new principal. On his first day, education bureau officials sighed, parents crowded the gates demanding to withdraw their children, and the principal of the neighboring top school openly sneered: “Not even the gods could save this school.” Just as Shen Yan sat down in his drafty office, a notification sounded in his ear. [Future Campus System successfully bound.] [Improve facilities, train teachers, unlock students’ talents, and complete campus prestige missions to earn upgrade rewards.] And so Xinghai Vocational High School began to change in strange ways. The rundown cafeteria became a nutritious dining hall where students from across the city lined up to check in. The abandoned workshop became a smart manufacturing training center. A gaming-addicted teen won the national programming championship. An auto mechanics student who had nearly dropped out modified an electric race car. The class of underachievers their parents had given up on made it into universities. The young teacher mocked by colleagues became a nationally renowned educator. A year later, the cameras turned to Shen Yan: “Principal Shen, how did you turn a vocational school at the bottom of the rankings into the nation’s number one model school?” Shen Yan gazed at the brightly lit campus behind him and said calmly: “It’s simple.” “Treat every child nobody believes in as a future ace.”