Ming Qingzhou is a struggling rural high school principal whose salary usually goes toward helping students afford their education.
But because her school is poor, she can’t even afford tickets for her students to attend the academic Olympiad!
Just as she hits rock bottom, she suddenly binds to a wealth system.
So when she takes the kids shopping and runs into her old rival carrying bags of purchases, the rival says, "Your students are such country bumpkins. Look at how badly they dress, and they still think they can compete in the Olympiad? Hurry home and prepare for the college entrance exams!"
[System: Spend 100,000 yuan within one hour.]
Ming Qingzhou turns around and takes her students to the luxury clothing store on the second floor to go on a shopping spree.
Her rival: ?
During the New Year, her aunt, who has a child teaching at a top high school, learns Ming Qingzhou has become a principal and sneers, "Your rural school probably doesn’t have any good teachers. What kind of students could they possibly teach? Not like the school where my girl works. The top hundred students all get guaranteed admission to Tsinghua or Peking University. Well, you chose the countryside, didn’t you?"
[System: Spend 1,000,000 yuan within seven days.]
Ming Qingzhou goes straight to the province’s top high schools and hires their teachers at high salaries to teach in the countryside.
Her aunt: ??
No one believes Ming Qingzhou’s students will amount to anything. "A small-town test-taking machine will spend their whole life working for someone else."
Ming Qingzhou quietly posts the messages her students have sent her on her social feed.
Student A: CEO of a Fortune Global 500 company, with an after-tax income of 80 million yuan.
Student B: A talent universally recognized by the entertainment industry, with 100 million followers on Weibo.
Student C: A nationally treasured scientific researcher, with 40 patents worth over 10 billion yuan.
Ming Qingzhou: I’m done. There are too many messages to post. Funny, why have you all gone quiet?
Later... Ming Qingzhou’s school becomes the country’s most famous rural key high school, and universities everywhere scramble to recruit her students.
A little extra
Ming Qingzhou, who has spent ten years teaching and educating students, stands at the awards podium to give her acceptance speech.
"Next, I’d like to say a few words to my students. First, our school really doesn’t need to be expanded again. Certain students, don’t use your success as entrepreneurs to get onto the Forbes list as an excuse to secretly send money without asking what your teacher thinks."
"Second, I hope certain celebrities will stop mentioning our school on social media. We’re just an ordinary village elementary school. We don’t recruit students from outside the city. Fans who want to send their children here, or want to enroll themselves, please stop calling the admissions office."
"Finally, and most importantly! To the professors and experts who graduated from our school: tell the universities where you work to stop calling me after the college entrance exams to poach my students! Don’t think publishing dozens of SCI papers gives you the right to get cocky. You’re still little kids in my eyes!"
Ming Qingzhou angrily slams the table!
At first, she only wanted to spend some money and get a little peace and quiet. Instead of peace, she gets admissions calls from Tsinghua and Peking University year after year, one after another!
Why is it so hard to be an ordinary rural teacher?
--- Reading Notes ---
1. There probably won’t be a male lead.
2. This blurb was written in December 2021.
3. To be added.
Theme: Peach and plum trees make no boast, yet a path grows beneath them. Education is a profoundly sacred undertaking, but it grows out of everyday life.
