Why Is the Foil a Well-Rounded Genius?

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Xie Qingyue grew up in a small town. Her family was poor, and her parents favored boys over girls. Fortunately, she worked hard and got into the best private high school in City A.

She thought a bright future was just around the corner.

Then, on the first day of school, she suddenly remembered that this world was a novel, and she was a cannon-fodder character in it.

The class she was about to join would be livestreamed around the clock as part of a variety show, all to promote the school's chosen stars.

The production team picked her as the foil to make everyone else look good, and her parents, tempted by the enormous appearance fee, secretly signed the contract.

After the show ended, the others either became wildly famous or went on to the bright futures their parents had paved for them.

She, meanwhile, was cursed by millions, failed her college entrance exams, and never recovered.

At that, Xie Qingyue sneered. Who said she was going to be their foil?

When the variety show began, the viewers criticized her from every angle:

"Ordinary-looking, dressed shabbily, and ignorant. All she knows is studying, and she's gloomy all day. She can't do anything else and has no class at all. Unlike the others, who are poised and talented."

Later, as the show went on, the viewers were stunned.

At the sports meet, she swept several first-place finishes, breaking every record, and coaches fought to recruit her.

At the music festival, she played a single erhu piece that moved everyone to tears. The related video got over ten million views.

As for academics, she was always at the top of the rankings.

The so-called "chosen stars" in the class, supposedly talented in every field, looked utterly useless next to her.

Every obstacle the production team threw in her way became a springboard for her to show off her many talents.

In a show backed by over a hundred million in investment, she alone became a sensation despite being the one the producers refused to promote, rising to become a top-tier star.

Note: This is a feel-good power fantasy, just for fun. If that's not your thing, please don't read it. If you don't like it, just click away. There's no need to argue.

One day, Ming Lan discovered that she was a cannon-fodder NPC in the metaverse.

Her job was to act terrified, trembling and shrieking like a human noise machine when an NPC playing a bandit stormed into the company and started shooting everywhere.

When a player stepped in and shot the NPC dead, she was supposed to gaze at the player with starry eyes and fall for them on the spot.

After repeating this more than ten thousand times, Ming Lan was thoroughly fed up.

So she modified all her stats.

Health: Infinity.

Speed: Infinity.

Strength: Infinity.

Intelligence: Infinity.

Wealth: Infinity.

When the loop began again,

the armed bandit NPC stormed into the company.

The company fell into chaos once more, just as scripted.

This time, Ming Lan didn't scream. She calmly walked through a hail of bullets, effortlessly picked up the burly bandit, and hurled him through the air, killing the player.

When Ming Lan began appearing conspicuously among the players,

she raced cars, went bungee jumping, held lavish parties day and night, bought the finest jewelry as if money were no object, threw it away after wearing it once, and randomly showered players with cash.

She livestreamed on every TV channel and social media platform in the metaverse, taunting the game company.

She did whatever she pleased, with utterly unrestrained arrogance.

At first, people thought Ming Lan was the new big boss in the game.

Only the programmers working in shifts day and night and the company's executives knew that Ming Lan was a terrifying being with self-awareness who simply could not be killed.

But the executives didn't know that the real terror would begin when Ming Lan took control of every network, built herself a mechanical body, brought lethal weapons into the real world, and sent her equally armed robot minions to surround the company.

Theme: You decide your own life. Never give up.