As a renowned sect in the cultivation world, Xiaoyang Sect is fiercely competitive. The sect holds a major exam once a month, and anyone who fails is expelled from the inner sect.
Chong Li, a new disciple recruited this year, manages to scrape by every single time.
Everyone resents her and cannot understand it: she's the weakest of them all. What gives her the right to pass? Is it just dumb luck?
Chong Li: ...Actually, no one is more short on dumb luck than I am.
As someone who transmigrated, she has to complete the System's mission: pass each monthly exam, and, provided she passes, the lower her ranking that month, the more dumb-luck points she earns.
Chong Li can return to her original world only after earning enough dumb-luck points before the deadline.
So the exceptionally talented Chong Li has no choice but to make her goal to come in dead last, by the narrowest possible margin.
Every day, she keeps tabs on her senior brother's cultivation progress, secretly draws up probability charts for him, deliberately blows up a small furnace while making pills with her second senior sister, and purposely falls one move short when sparring with her junior brother.
Her dumb-luck points accumulate without a hitch. Gradually, though, Chong Li notices that everyone looks at her differently now. They no longer regard her with the disdain and resentment of before.
When the sword formation goes out of control, her senior brother, cold as ice, steps in front of her. "Junior Sister, I remember how you guided me in my cultivation. This time, let me protect you."
When the sect holds her accountable, her usually impartial second senior sister pleads on her behalf. "You held back for me when we made pills last time, or I would have been expelled. Junior Sister, I won't forget what you did for me."
Her junior brother, meanwhile, spends every day pondering the seemingly careless final move she used against him, and secretly falls for her.
Before she has even earned enough dumb-luck points, Chong Li has already become, in the eyes of others, a sword genius who hides her true abilities and loves without limits.
Chong Li: "No, I only helped you because I wanted to come in last!"
Draft saved on 26.3.3. I'll revise it again later.
Theme: It's okay to slack off a little. No one should be too outstanding
