The Whole World Thinks I'm Utterly Ordinary

After a thousand years, the Spirit Clan finally welcomed a genius born with spirit bones. After a long investigation, they discovered he was Sheng Ling, who had been cast out by his family long ago and spent twenty years drifting aimlessly through the mortal world. He was the genius’s younger brother. As for Sheng Ling, his talent was mediocre. The Spirit Clan held their noses and took him back because he was the genius’s brother. # In outsiders’ eyes, Sheng Ling had nothing but a pretty face. He was his genius younger brother’s little caretaker, a total failure who couldn’t hold his own anywhere. Sheng Ling worked hard to take first place at the academy. Everyone said he was cheating with his brother’s help. Sheng Ling was taken on as a disciple by a powerful master. Everyone said the master had his eye on the younger brother, and Sheng Ling was just an extra. It was always the same. Sheng Ling was merely an afterthought. Until Sheng Ling mastered a form of talisman-making no one had ever seen before. It was astonishingly beautiful, and could draw on the power of heaven and earth. The paper umbrella, long dismissed by the Spirit Clan as a worthless spiritual artifact, transformed in Sheng Ling’s hands. He refined it into a divine artifact, and people fought tooth and nail just to see it. And Sheng Ling, with his frail frame, entered the Forest of Buried Bones alone to save his mother, a place no one had dared to enter before, and returned without a scratch. In an instant, he became one of the Spirit Clan’s most powerful cultivators. # An old post was bumped on the 404 forum. [Why is Sheng Ling, the older brother of the spirit-bone genius, so utterly ordinary?] The latest comment: [Because he relies too much on external help.] A new student took it at face value and eagerly investigated, only to discover Sheng Ling’s talisman paper bore characters no one else could draw in several lifetimes. No one could have refined his umbrella, even if they’d saved the galaxy. And every spirit cultivator was too afraid to enter the Forest of Buried Bones. The new student replied in despair: [You call that ordinary?] Sheng Ling was baffled. [Isn’t that ordinary?] 1v1, happy ending, pairing set Please add my novel in the works to your library Gu Ji was misunderstood by everyone in high school and forced to drop out. Later, his family went bankrupt, and he worked for years, focused solely on making money. By chance, he was reborn in his second year of high school. . Gu Ji hadn’t touched a book in hundreds of years, and wore a cold expression. Then the Xinhua Dictionary that had brought him back laid out the following rules [Ding dong, ] [Host must place among the top three in the city on the college entrance exam and get into one of the country’s top two universities] [Beginner’s bonus: Congratulations, Host! You’ve unlocked the support line for struggling students. As a special golden finger, you’ll always get a perfect score on the first test you take each day!] [Break the rules, and you’ll die on the spot.] And so, during Gu Ji’s second time around, the whole school experienced the terror of being under his control [Chinese teacher: I hear Gu Ji can write perfect essays because he doesn’t talk much. The less you talk, the higher your essay score. You should all learn from him.] [Students: ???] [Meanwhile, the math teacher begged Gu Ji: You get full marks on every math quiz, but please, please do my math test when there’s a major exam!] [The head of discipline pointed at several ranking lists in anguish: Everyone says you’re uneven in your subjects, and they’re right, you’re incredibly uneven! Could you at least be consistent about it? One moment you’re specializing in Chinese, the next it’s math, and then you go and ace PE too?!] [His underclassman cheered wildly: Brother Gu is awesome! Other people control their scores, but you control your subjects! A master of subject control! That top-ranked genius is nothing next to you!] [The academic genius, who had always held first place in every individual subject, but kept losing first place in one or two different subjects each time, fell into deep thought: Is he letting me come first? Does he like me????] Gu Ji: ... Theme: Hard work is rewarded. I shape my own fate, not heaven.