The Popular Slacker Works Hard to Get Into Tsinghua

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[Spoiler warning for The Popular Dregs Student: The heroine will be bullied by the System, which will alter her exam scores. If you can't stand this kind of frustrating plot, please don't jump in!]

The blurb for The Popular Dregs Student:

"You're inside a book. Your life is sustained by nutrient solution awarded for completing System tasks. Only by maxing out the favorability of five villain bosses can you earn a new life."

What do you do when you transmigrate into a dark, angsty novel and are forced to bind yourself to a ridiculous popularity System?

Jun Ranran thinks she's got it rough.

Task One: Reform the younger brother she bullied as a child, who's now turned evil.

Task Two: Develop a sincere, innocent father-daughter bond with her domineering stepfather, a CEO with paranoid delusions.

Task Three: Tame her stepfather's assistant, who seems gentle and refined but is actually ambitious.

Task Four: Save the cold student council president, who is teetering on the brink of a split personality.

Task Five: Stop the young national film star from the entertainment industry from becoming even more psychologically twisted.

Faced with these impossible tasks, Jun Ranran, utterly hopeless, pulls out a set of exam prep books. "Do tasks? No, I'd rather get into Tsinghua!"

#I Reform Villainous Big Shots Through Hard Work#

#Even Dregs Students Dream of Tsinghua#

#What's It Like to Live in a Love Triangle Battlefield Every Day?#

[Warning!!!!!]

[The pacing of this story isn't very well handled. The heroine will be oppressed by the System's antics early on. If you can't stand this kind of plot, please don't jump in!!!]

Reader's guide:

[A feel-good, sweet story, light and silly~]

[The male lead is someone else]

[An alternate setting, very loosely based on reality, with lots of original worldbuilding and a rather wild imagination~]

[Weibo: The Wishing Well of Susu Yuting]

November 30, 2019. Revised January 3, 2020

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Coming soon: The Celestial Saintess Can't Possibly Be a Love-Brained Fool

Shen Lingran is the saintess of the Four Heavens of the Sacred Realm. Noble and gentle, with all the world in her heart, she need only pass the Sacred Realm's most stringent trial of the heart, whose failure brings the most devastating consequences, to become the Celestial Saintess who rules the entire Divine Realm.

But Shen Lingran considers her Dao heart steadfast and herself fearless.

Until one day, she suddenly discovers that she is the cannon-fodder female supporting character in a Mary Sue redemption novel.

In the future, she'll give up her chance to take the trial for the sake of her beloved Dao companion and elope with him. She'll even commit one foolish act after another that endangers the world to help him save the woman he cherishes most, becoming a fallen god reviled by everyone in the Divine Realm, only to die tragically on the day of their wedding.

For now, however, her Dao companion is still only her betrothed.

And the woman he keeps in his heart has yet to appear.

Her betrothed invites her to meet up in three days. In truth, he wants to coax her into marriage. Shen Lingran taps the letter with her slender, pale fingers, her expression cool and composed, utterly certain.

I can't possibly be a love-brained fool.

Everyone knows that Zhang Qiuchi, the most renowned Daoist Lord of the Ten Continents and Three Islands, has admired Shen Lingran, the saintess of the Sacred Realm, for hundreds of years.

On this day, he throws the most eagerly anticipated proposal ceremony in the Divine Realm for her.

Sea of clouds, sunset, and heavenly light bestowed by the Divine Tree. Night butterflies dance among the drifting flowers, graceful and full of life.

This was once Shen Lingran's fondest dream.

But on this day, as Zhang Qiuchi kneels before her and proposes...

As the woman he once cherished, long vanished, appears and kneels behind him, weeping pitifully as she tugs at the hem of his robe and begs him not to abandon her...

As Shen Lingran asks, "Will you choose me, or her?"

As Zhang Qiuchi's expression flickers with a fleeting hesitation when his beloved suddenly vomits blood...

Shen Lingran draws her sword without hesitation and severs their marriage bond before all the gods.

"From this day on, there will be no marriage between us."

*

The day she leaves the scoundrel, the gods try to cheer up their future Celestial Saintess by sending a group of handsome young demons for her to choose from.

To shut them up, Shen Lingran points casually at one. She doesn't expect to pick the most beautiful one, who's also the most ferocious and possessive about his food.

Oh well. Teach him properly, and he'll learn to behave.

A hundred years later, however, this beautiful, ferocious young demon suddenly disappears. When he reappears, he's become the Demon Lord, the being most dreaded and troublesome to both the Sacred Realm and the Ten Continents and Three Islands. He causes trouble every few days, making the regions around the Divine Realm unsafe.

Shen Lingran rubs her brow, troubled, and starts to doubt herself. Could my judgment really be this bad? Did I misread him again?

Not long afterward, the young Demon Lord comes before Shen Lingran with a proposal for peace and a promise never to wage war. He gazes at her imploringly and opens with a pitiful plea: "Sister, I was wrong. Don't send me away."

*

The Demon Lord Tingzhou has a secret hidden in his heart.

He wants to claim someone who can never belong to anyone alone.

He knows it's impossible.

But he wants it anyway.

"I want to fill your eyes, your lips, your heart, every moment of every day. But, Sister, I know you have your responsibilities, so I can endure it. I can wait, just like a puppy patiently waiting for its owner."

A cool, gentle immortal sister who cares for the whole world VS a violent, possessive young Demon Lord who pretends to be sweet and obedient.

Theme: A story about a heroine who, despite being bad at school, never gives up and keeps working hard at her studies.