The Shop Assistant's Self-Cultivation

Upcoming novels: Bad Minister (Imperial Examinations), I Help His Majesty Ascend the Throne, and I'm a Professional at Winning by Doing Nothing

Si Shi had never been very brave. Who knew that one day, when she transmigrated, heaven would drop her into a world of martial arts?

She didn't want to live every day on the brink of life and death, so she planned to get the most ordinary job imaginable: working as a waiter at an inn.

Who knew that one wrong step would change everything? Si Shi never imagined this would turn out to be a job with an extremely high danger level...

Bad Minister (Imperial Examinations)

In his previous life, Xie Liangchen was a spoiled rich kid, spending every day partying and getting into fights, with terrible grades to boot.

He thought that even if he never achieved much in life, he could at least enjoy an easy, carefree existence. But then he transmigrated and became a little boy in a remote mountain village.

He had a large family full of siblings, and as the one in the middle who was easiest to overlook, he could barely even get a full meal.

Xie Liangchen, who was used to a comfortable life in his previous existence, refused to put up with this. If life was going to be this hard, then even in ancient times, he would carve out a place for himself and rise to the heavens, claiming all the world's splendor!

So Xie Liangchen, who had barely ever studied seriously, began doing everything he could to learn to read and write, determined to top the imperial examinations, win a position, and rise through the ranks.

But he didn't want to be some incorruptible minister or virtuous chancellor. He wanted to become a powerful minister with authority over everything, someone even the emperor wouldn't dare move against lightly!

I Help His Majesty Ascend the Throne

Jiang Li transmigrated into an angsty romance novel. The System tasked her with helping the male supporting character, a gentle, harmless, kind little white rabbit, ascend the throne.

You've got to be kidding! The original male lead is ruthless and cruel, and this supporting character, who's practically an extra, doesn't have a single one of the "fine qualities" of capriciousness, deviousness, or cunning!

System: He doesn't have any of those qualities, so you can change him.

Jiang Li: Teaching people to become bad will bring divine retribution.

System: Then do you want to live or not?

Jiang Li: Come on, let's learn how to frame someone today.

Feng Xu had suspected since childhood that there was something wrong with the mind of the daughter of the Minister of War.

For instance, he would be happily playing in the imperial garden when she'd suddenly tell him to jump into the pond. When he refused, she'd push him in herself.

Or she'd try to coax him into eating poisoned food, claiming she had an antidote and he shouldn't be afraid because it wouldn't kill him, and that it was all for his own good. When he refused, she'd secretly slip him poison anyway.

Or she'd suddenly pull out all kinds of strange objects and tell him to take them to his father to curry favor, insisting that his father would be amazed when he saw them. But Feng Xu felt that if he really took them to his father, he might be banished to the Cold Palace on the spot.

So Feng Xu, who had once wanted nothing, suddenly began to feel that danger lurked everywhere in life, and that one careless move could cost him his life. He started developing into an all-around talent, just to guard against this madwoman's sudden attacks.

Years later, Jiang Li looked at the man before her and sighed with satisfaction. I really do have a talent for teaching people. My little white rabbit has finally been trained into a big bad wolf.

Feng Xu shot her a sidelong look. You might have a rather mistaken impression of yourself.

I'm a Professional at Winning by Doing Nothing

In her previous life, or rather, her many previous lives, Yun Qing had an easy time of everything, because she was the heroine of a story where she won by doing nothing.

What does it mean to win by doing nothing? It means that she doesn't have to lift a finger; everything is simply handed to her.

If the story followed the power-struggle wish-fulfillment route, she would have a formidable family background, while every villain would inexplicably lose their intelligence at a crucial moment. She'd gain both fame and fortune, and the heroine's halo would shine across the land.

If it followed the pampered-romance route, then even if she treated the male lead with disdain and considered him worthless, he would still find her utterly special, fall deeply in love, and be unable to pull himself away.

She thought she would go on living happily ever after, but after yet another familiar transmigration, she discovered that her life had switched from easy mode to hard mode.

For example, the girl who used to be adored by everyone had become a pitiful nobody whom anyone could bully.

And before, whenever she met a handsome man, he would either be infatuated with her or love her from afar. Now, if she so much as looked at someone twice, she'd be scolded for having delusions.

The most absurd thing was that one day, she discovered there was a heroine in this world just like the one from her past life, while Yun Qing herself had a whole set of familiar traits: she was the sacrificial supporting character...

So what should she do? Yun Qing thought it over and decided that she had plenty of experience winning by doing nothing, so perhaps she could use that to defeat the heroine of this story.

And so, to everyone's astonishment, she began competing with the heroine to see who could slack off more. After all, when it came to winning by doing nothing, she was a professional...

Theme: No matter how great the obstacles, keep fighting. Even an ordinary person can live an extraordinary life.