To enroll in school, Ji Chen needed a household registration. After receiving his admission letter, he bade farewell to his master and emerged from the remote mountain wilderness.
He called the wealthy Ji family, causing an uproar. Only then did the family learn that the son they had raised for over twenty years was a fake young master.
Now the real young master had come home, admission letter in hand, asking them to sign it and register his household. The Ji parents were moved to tears, marveling that their son had turned out so well without them even having to raise him.
Then they took a closer look. "What on earth is a Full-Time Cultivation University?"
The fake second young master, a sweet and scheming white lotus, feigned concern while secretly gloating. The brainless little young master mocked Ji Chen for having no ability and getting into some diploma mill to swindle the family out of money. The eldest young master was hounded by their parents into flying home overnight to clean up Ji Chen's mess.
It didn't have to be a top-tier university. Surely it could at least be a proper school.
Ji Chen refused. "No need. I want to cultivate. Just take care of my enrollment paperwork, and afterward I can transfer my household registration elsewhere."
The domineering eldest brother, who had stayed up all night binge-watching short dramas and expected a fake-versus-real-young-master rivalry for their parents' affection, fell silent.
What was he supposed to do? Why did he suddenly feel sorry for his biological little brother?
The Ji patriarch and his parents secretly decided to withdraw Ji Chen from school. They tried every trick in the book and called in every favor they could, but nothing worked. All they could do was watch as Ji Chen slung a battered sword over his back and went to register at school.
Much later, when the Ji family's business ran into trouble, they used every connection they had just to get an introduction to the most powerful family in the capital. There, they saw the young and promising head of that family following Ji Chen around, acting utterly deferential and doing everything to please him.
A renowned master of the occult world treated him with the utmost respect, addressing him as Junior Granduncle.
A talisman he drew on a whim sold for tens of millions.
None of that compared to the day the Ji family watched the news report on the massive Qinling wildfire. Ji Chen descended from the sky dressed in white, sword in hand, and with a single strike smothered the sea of flames stretching across the heavens.
Everyone fell silent.
They dug into the "Full-Time Cultivation University" Ji Chen attended and discovered it was a cultivation academy that only accepted students once every hundred years. The revelation set the whole internet ablaze.
"Holy crap! The country has only been around for seventy years, and this school only takes one student every hundred years! Master Ji Chen, take me on as your disciple!"
"Motherland, how could you open a cultivation school behind my back and not tell me? Is it too late to drop out now? Sob, sob."
A marriage contract arrived at the Ji family. It was handwritten by Xie Wangzhi, head of the Xie family, whom they had met at a banquet before.
Damn it! You gay maniac! Keep your hands off the pride and joy of the Ji family!
Aspiration: Study hard and keep improving every day.