I Always Pay for the Tall Tales My Siblings Tell

Important note up front: The main story is not written in first person. This novel will be completed on Wednesday, March 22, and will be locked behind a paywall. Chapters 21-51 will be locked. If you've already read them, you won't need to purchase them again. Thank you all for your support, and I hope you'll continue to support me in the future. My name is Lian Linyue. I come from a huge family, and there are dozens of brothers and sisters in my generation. Every one of them loves to show off when they're out and about, making me the star of their tall tales. I also have a System, called the Bragging System. Whenever one of my siblings brags about me, my System forces me to study and become the versatile genius, skilled in both arts and martial arts, that they claim I am. Otherwise, they'll be erased by the System. Even though they cause me a lot of trouble, I still love them. I've truly had to give up so much to keep them alive. From then on, thanks to my brag-loving brothers and sisters, my life became a living hell... Eldest Cousin: Our Linyue is a top-notch IT specialist, you know? System: Ding-dong! Your eldest cousin requires you to become an IT specialist. Please study and become one within three months, or your eldest cousin will be erased in three months. Lian Linyue, who is hopeless at science: What? Second Cousin: My little brother has been practicing martial arts since he was a kid. He's good with hidden weapons, too. System: Ding-dong! Your second cousin wants you to become a martial arts master. Learn to use hidden weapons with perfect accuracy within one month, or your second cousin will... Lian Linyue, a severely lazy shut-in: ?! Are you trying to make life impossible for me? Third Cousin: Our Linyue... Many, many years later... Fourth Cousin: My little brother Linyue has been a prodigy since he was young. He got into a top university at sixteen... System: Ding-dong! Your fourth cousin wants you to become a prodigy and get into a top university. First, learn to build a time machine. Deadline: one month. Lian Linyue, now holding several government posts and swamped with work, raises a forty-meter-long broadsword: Heh. I choose to take them all down with me. First, I'm going to give those troublemakers a good beating. Check out my upcoming novel, The Young Master of the Marquis's Residence Has a Modern-Day Online Friend. In his previous life, Qiu Wenjin was a fool who lost everything after being deceived by a scumbag. To help the scumbag ascend the throne, he ignored his family's advice and stubbornly went his own way, even threatening to take his own life. Unable to bear the thought of seeing him suffer, his family took a chance and joined the doomed venture, hoping things might somehow turn out well. The scumbag became emperor and helped his white moonlight take the throne as empress. Only then did Qiu Wenjin realize he had lost everything. With a single order, the entire Qiu family was brutally killed, perishing in a sea of flames. After being reborn, Qiu Wenjin went to the scumbag's door with a sword, exposed his white moonlight for all to see, and reclaimed every gift he'd ever given the scumbag. He smashed the jade pendant the scumbag had given him and turned away with a flourish. But as soon as he turned around, he ran into the man who had lost his position as crown prince because of him in his previous life, and who had willingly stayed by his side as they perished in the flames at the end. The man gave a roguish grin and shoved a short sword into his hands. "A betrothal gift. How about marrying me?" Qiu Wenjin gave him the sword he carried at his side. "A dowry. But you'll have to send someone to propose." In this life, Qiu Wenjin finds a desk made of ironwood in his family's attic and makes contact with someone from thousands of years in the future, forming a deep friendship. Much later, the scumbag says, "A-Jin, can you forgive me? It was my fault. I've loved you for a long time. I was just too stupid to realize..." Qiu Wenjin: You're nothing special to look at, but you sure have a vivid imagination. Since you've admitted you're stupid, why not keep being stupid and vicious? As the crown prince of his dynasty, Yue Wusheng only wants to protect the people he cares about in this turbulent age. But then he discovers: One day, food appears, and there's a wide variety of it. One day, a plague is cured by strange little sugar-coated pills. One day, powerful weapons fall into his hands, allowing him to drive foreign invaders out of his country on the battlefield. One day, that strange little desk saves his life... Upcoming novel 2: I Can See That Your Soul Is a Little Dark Do you know what color your soul is? Lin Chuqiu has been able to see everyone's color since childhood: deep black, pure white, gray between black and white, and blood red, full of murderous intent. Only as he grows older does he understand what these colors mean. Only then does he learn that all the hardships he suffered in the past were caused by his mother's self-righteous attempts to make it up to him. A misunderstanding brings Lin Chuqiu together with a police captain. Then he meets the half-brother who has hated him for years, and the truth about what happened long ago comes to light. Once the truth is revealed, his scumbag father gets what he deserves. His biological mother, who has finally come to her senses, stands before him for the first time in twenty years, begging for his forgiveness. At that point, Lin Chuqiu pulls the man who helped from behind the scenes in front of her. "Someone's already looking after me. Thank you for giving birth to me..." I once longed for my family's love, but I never had it. Now you've come back, but I already have a family of my own. Theme: Work diligently and be an honest person.