Everyone at the Academy Is a Villain Except Me

[Attention, cultivators! The major cultivation universities are now accepting a new round of students! You have plenty of options, including the Sword Cultivation College, the Medicine Cultivation College, the Artifact Cultivation College, and... the Spell Cultivation College.]

A certain walking disaster had just escaped from a remote ravine when he accidentally wandered into the recruitment fair for all the universities. He was snapped up by the Spell Cultivation College, which looked like a diploma mill.

The other new students were all excited, but the walking disaster was full of worry. With luck as bad as his, he was sure he’d ended up at some diploma mill.

But once he entered the college, he realized something seemed off:

Why did the people here pet a super-powerful exotic beast like a mascot, build it a giant statue, and even put a pet microchip on it in case it got lost?

Why was the cafeteria food served by qi-powered robots whose hands shook at an impossibly consistent frequency, and why could the utterly unremarkable cafeteria uncle subdue a vicious rogue spirit cultivator wanted worldwide with his bare hands?

Why did the seniors at the new students’ exhibition match use flimsy hot pot chopsticks while casting spells instantly, slicing through high-level exotic beasts like vegetables and laughing wildly as they fought???

When he saw that the teachers at the lectern were all people who could shake the whole country with a single stomp, the walking disaster began to wonder if he was dreaming.

After being unlucky her entire life, she’d finally gone all in on luck at this one moment!

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Chi Yan, a max-level mage, returned from another world to the modern era and discovered she was a disposable stand-in in a modern urban fantasy novel.

Too lazy to bother with the plot, she opened a magic academy to enjoy a quiet retirement and joined a daily academy-life livestream variety show on the side.

But once she started recruiting students and staff, she discovered that everyone she’d hired was a future villain in the original novel?

The whole academy had just one disposable character: her. Chi Yan decided to lie flat, managing and developing the place as she pleased.

But those villains who were supposed to destroy the world worked so hard that they somehow turned her academy into the global number one...?

#This dean is insanely strong but lies flat way too much#

#What’s it like when the entire academy is full of future villains?#

#How an evil villain academy (not really) came to be#

#Official statement from the dean: Everyone at our academy is completely normal. We absolutely, positively, definitely won’t cause trouble. Applications are welcome!#

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1. A completely fictional modern setting, with original worldbuilding and a male lead.

2. A lighthearted, peaceful story about running an academy, with goofy humor and wish fulfillment (probably).

Theme: Everyone has their own strengths, and everyone is wonderful.