Figure Skating: I Use a System to Become an Olympic Champion

Currently revising at a slow pace. Thanks for your support! [Coming Soon: Today I Become the Demon King [Western Fantasy], visit my author page] At 31, veteran skater Li Nan got two injections to numb the pain, desperate to make it onto the ice for China. Unfortunately, he missed the podium by a single point. His fourth-place finish brought his career to a close. The night before he announced his retirement, Li Nan got blackout drunk. Then he closed his eyes, opened them, and found himself back in the summer when he was ten. Still reeling, he heard a voice beside him: [Ding! Super Star System successfully bound.] Li Nan: ? He opened the System's shop. When he saw items like [Rapid Stamina Recovery Potion] and [50% Injury Immunity Buff], his eyes lit up. What's being a superstar in the entertainment industry compared to bringing glory to your country? He was going to become a superstar on the ice! · The first day the System bound itself to Li Nan: [Sign-in at the designated location to receive: Simulated Life Acting Training Room] [Use the Acting Training Room to hone your skills, become an award-winning actor, and reach the pinnacle of life!] Li Nan glanced at the quest description, entered the Acting Training Room, and selected a simulation target: the famous figure-skating Demon King. With the System's help, he immersed himself in practicing several triple Axels that he still struggled to land in real life. System: ? · The Nth day the System was bound to Li Nan: [Host, complete the face-slapping task immediately.] [Win everyone over with your incredibly captivating dancing! You are the strongest idol of all!] The next second, Li Nan performed a graceful transition into a Biellmann spin on the ice, holding one skate with one hand and forming a beautiful teardrop shape. Onlookers: What the heck? [Task success confirmed.] System: ? · Years later, when Li Nan stood on the champion's podium once more, the crowd cheered and waved to him in tribute. Countless stuffed toys rained down, landing at his feet. Some called him the king of the ice, an elf born for figure skating. Only Li Nan knew that behind all the glory lay sweat and tears of blood, earned through countless sleepless nights. And, of course, he couldn't have done it without the help of a certain "helpful" System. System: ... (garbled) I will turn my youth into the most legendary symphony. [Reader's Guide] 1. No characters are based on real people. All names were randomly generated with a name generator. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. 2. The world of this novel is not the real world. Please don't conflate it with reality! 3. More to come if I think of anything! Love you! Coming Soon: visit my author page Today I Become the Demon King [Interstellar] Blurb: Yan Yunqing played a city-building game called Today I Become the Demon King. With his chuunibyou delusions, he gathered a band of lunatics as his subjects and established a vast empire. Then he quit the game. The game kept sending him messages from time to time: [Your subjects are panicking because they can't find you.] [Your subjects have rioted over their king's disappearance.] [Your subjects want to kill the king!!!] Fed up with the messages, Yan Yunqing changed his phone number, and the world finally grew quiet. Then one day, he received a message that Demon King was getting an online multiplayer version. The next second, he was transported into the game, where he became an undocumented outsider in another world. The good news: he had not only a player interface, but also an NPC interface that let him assign quests to players. The bad news: the empire he had once built had fallen apart. His subjects and followers now acted independently and had turned against their country. And he seemed to have become the most wanted criminal in the other world. · A game with the unremarkable name of The Continent of Eirman suddenly launched one day. Claiming to be the first fully immersive virtual reality game with all five senses, it drew countless players eager to make their mark in the game. A mysterious NPC appeared on the players' radar. [Holy crap, does he sell ancient artifacts?] [This NPC gives out a hidden quest about a lost ruin!!] [What the heck, how did this NPC beat up the Sea Demon King? What's his hidden level???] Yan Yunqing looked at the innocent, unsuspecting players before him and smiled as he pulled out a pile of junk left in his inventory from when he used to play Demon King, waiting for some willing buyers to take the bait. Players: !!! These stats! These attributes! They're early-game artifacts!!! Buy, buy, buy!!! · Player Forum [Wait, who exactly is this mysterious NPC?? Has anyone dug into his backstory? Why does he seem entangled with the top fighters from so many factions? Did I run into the real Casanova in the game?] Reply 47903: OP, those top fighters from the factions you mentioned all seem to have come from the same place in the past... Reply 47904: Anyone who's done the hidden quest in the lost ruins should know that the ruins are actually called [The Lost Empire]. The quest description says it was once ruled by the Demon King. One day, the Demon King suddenly disappeared, and his subjects rioted. That's how the place gradually became the ruins it is today. The Demon King's guards went their separate ways and each took charge of their own affairs, eventually forming the major factions we have today. Reply 47905: What kind of background do you think an NPC who seems so entangled with the Demon King's former subordinates has...? (smirks) What do you think? Theme: Together, toward the future. I will turn my youth into the most legendary symphony.