Madcap, iron-fisted, ruthless, impoverished top student / aloof, icy, devoted top student
Xu Wenhan is an honors student and a girl from a poor family. Even if they emptied the whole house, her family couldn't scrape together more than a few coins. It's hard to believe that in this day and age, her family's savings wouldn't even cover an ordinary person's meal.
A seriously ill mother, a gambling father, a younger brother who is the family pride, and her, broken beyond repair.
Fortunately, Xu Wenhan's grandmother was willing to take her in. She spent every day collecting recyclables to support Xu Wenhan's education, keeping her from jumping off a building and starting over. In Xu Wenhan's eyes, studying was her only way out.
So her passion for studying reached an almost deranged level.
She and He Yu had long shared the top spot in their year. In other people's eyes, she was a cool, beautiful, tragic little white flower.
Then she met Jiang Ying. It was a cold winter day. Jiang Ying said that two years earlier, Xu Wenhan had bumped into her at the school gate, dragged her into the bathroom, and slapped her dozens of times.
After that, the teachers and students at school all began treating her strangely. Bugs appeared in her desk. Filthy insults showed up on the blackboard. A male teacher began sexually harassing her, and she was inexplicably singled out.
Xu Wenhan was clever, but not clever enough. She reported it to a teacher, who told the principal, Jiang Ying's father.
Then Xu Wenhan's scholarship was canceled, and her grandmother's recyclables and dilapidated house were burned down. She could no longer go to school.
Her father was going to marry her off to an old man in the village in exchange for a hundred yuan in bride price.
At that moment, she stood on the rooftop, gazing quietly down. She wasn't thinking about how to die.
She was thinking that if only she had a knife.
It seemed fate was on her side.
She became Jiang Ying, and Jiang Ying became her.
[Congratulations, Host. You are now bound to the Mad King System.]
[Complete an outrageous act to earn experience points, money, wealth, beauty, and life.]
[Whatever you want, I can give you.]
The classroom was in chaos. No one dared come forward.
They had just witnessed the most horrifying sight of their lives.
Jiang Ying sat at Xu Wenhan's desk, putting the bugs into her mouth and crunching them down like potato chips.
The lips, coated in delicate lip gloss, were smeared with the marks of crawling insects.
Xu Wenhan, now inhabiting Jiang Ying's body, stared at the American cockroaches crawling in the drawer, then at the task on the check-in System, and widened her eyes slightly.
[Deal with the American cockroaches in your drawer to earn experience points based on how outrageous your actions are.]
She stared at the roaches for a long while, then eagerly reached out.
Weren't these medicinal ingredients?
A powerful tonic!
The System fell silent for a long time. Just as Xu Wenhan thought it had broken, a pop-up finally appeared.
[Outrage points +10]
Everyone thought Jiang Ying had gone crazy.
But what happened next was even more terrifying.
The next day, someone saw Jiang Ying discussing the outlook for recycling and future stock prices with a beggar at the school gate.
On the third day, someone saw Jiang Ying poking a clogged toilet with a mop. The moment sewage came gushing out, she brandished the mop and charged into the teachers' office, sending the teachers screaming and running for their lives.
Once the mop's been dipped in crap, whoever it touches is dead.
For a while, no one dared go near her.
Everyone thought Jiang Ying was strange. Stranger still, she always had a cool, detached look in her eyes that reminded them of Xu Wenhan.
But Xu Wenhan would never do something like fling crap around.
Except He Yu.
The boy who was always neat and aloof, and whose grades were neck and neck with hers, stopped her one evening.
He took hold of the wrist she hadn't yet had a chance to wash and said softly, "Xu Wenhan."
Not Jiang Ying. Xu Wenhan.
"Stop taking revenge on her like this."
His voice was low, and his eyes held a pain she couldn't understand.
"It's not worth it."
Xu Wenhan, now wearing Jiang Ying's face, slowly turned around. Her gaze was clear and bewildered. "Which class are you in? Do we know each other?"
He Yu: "..."
Theme: Take back everything that belongs to me.
