The Everyday Life of an Ordinary High School Student

After clearing an endless series of dungeons, Chen Qiuyi returned to her original world, ready to be an ordinary couch potato and enjoy the freedom she'd worked so hard to earn. But something went wrong on the very first day of her ordinary life. At school, her homeroom teacher smiled and said, "We have a new student in our class. Let's give her a warm welcome." The new transfer student was radiant and gorgeous, like a blooming peony. To the envy of the whole class, she walked over to Chen Qiuyi. "Can I sit next to you?" During break, Chen Qiuyi came out of the school store with some snacks and was cornered against the wall by the handsome school bully. He looked fierce, but his eyes were shy. "You, come to the basketball room after school. I need to talk to you. Don't you dare ditch me, or you're dead!" On her bike ride home, a limping kitten meowed sweetly and rubbed affectionately against her. At long last, she got home. Just when she thought she could finally relax, the door of the apartment next door, which had been empty for ages, opened. A handsome, pale, slender young man stepped out and held out a gift box, greeting her timidly. "Hi, I just moved in today, so we're neighbors now. This is a little gift." She shut the door and flopped onto her old sofa. As it creaked beneath her, Chen Qiuyi rubbed her temples. "Is something wrong with this world?" "Give me back my ordinary high school life, seriously!" "Attention, target spotted, SSS-rank capture target!" "According to the profile: Chen Qiuyi, both parents deceased, lives on her inheritance and part-time work, 17 years old, a second-year high school student, average personality, average grades..." The more they said, the more confused they sounded. "She's completely ordinary. Why would someone like that be an SSS-rank target?" "Who cares? Ordinary targets are easier to win over. This is an SSS-rank mission, and the rewards are beyond your imagination. If you won't do it, drop out." "We only spotted such an easy target first because the few of us had just finished our missions and had plenty of free time. Lots of big shots are bound to show up later. It'll be too late by then." "I'm in! Anyone who drops out is an idiot!" "Good! May the best one win!" "Let's finish this quickly." *At the editor's suggestion, the 'System' tag has been added. All the pursuers have a System and a mission, hence the tag. My no-romance male-lead novel, Lotus Crossing the Mortal World, is also looking for favorites. Blurb: Du Lian is a rare cultivation prodigy, every bit the equal of the Demon Venerable Yaotian Liu, who ascended a thousand years ago. He is an even more astonishing talent at cultivating the Path of Unfeeling. He breaks one record after another left behind by the Demon Venerable Yaotian Liu, finally completing the Great Path and becoming the only person to ascend since Yaotian Liu. During his ascension, however, Du Lian gets bound by a System and ordered to play the villainous BOSS in a male-lead novel, putting the protagonist through trials to help him grow. So Du Lian is supposed to become: A cold, demanding master You never show your disciple, the male protagonist, any warmth. You assign him missions with almost no chance of survival, then leave him to fend for himself. But every time, he manages to escape danger and steadily improve his cultivation, eventually killing all the demon fiends and saving the cultivation world, while also taking you out, his hypocritical master. A privileged young master who betrays his best friend You steal the treasure that belongs to your best friend, the male protagonist, and sneer at him as he struggles in a pit of misery. Later, the protagonist awakens his true golden finger and rises to fame, crushing you and your family beneath his heel. To save themselves, your family offers your head to the protagonist as a pledge of loyalty, yet still fails to escape destruction. A cruel and ruthless emperor You distrust the loyal general who is the male protagonist, framing the innocent and ruling recklessly. Later, foreign tribes invade, and no one at court is fit to serve. The army suffers one defeat after another, and the protagonist raises an army, easily takes the throne, and defeats the invaders. You are placed under house arrest and eventually hang yourself from a tree. Du Lian: ? What kind of stupid mission is this? I'm supposed to be someone's stepping stone? The damn System can do it itself. He, Du Lian, will always be the one standing at the peak. Demon fiends? Kill them! The protagonist's treasure? What a piece of junk. Toss it. Foreign tribes invading? A few sword strikes and they're gone. Du Lian follows his own will and does as he pleases. His inner demons vanish, and his cultivation improves again and again. At last, he successfully ascends and sees a man with exactly the same face as the protagonist... He gleefully hangs him up and beats him to a pulp! Du Lian: "That'll teach you to pull all those sneaky tricks!" Theme: Cherish every ordinary day that life makes possible.