Ever Since I Uninstalled the Mary Sue System

My name is Lin Xia. I'm an ordinary high school girl whose soul was forcibly bound to an outdated Mary Sue System, then dragged to another world.

I just got off the plane and am heading with my parents to the place where they'll be working: Tokyo Metropolitan Jujutsu High School.

The System went dormant after bringing me to this world, so ever since I was basically reborn into a new life, I've never completed any of the tasks it assigned.

Ah! Of course, maybe it did assign me some. But I'm just an ordinary high school girl. There's no way I can decipher garbled text.

Just as I was preparing to ignore it and get on with my ordinary life, it suddenly sprang back to life.

After carefully thinking over what had happened to me and the people around me lately, I settled on a target.

That boy who transferred here recently, whose uniform is a different color from everyone else's, and whose short black hair is framed by dark circles that are way too pronounced.

Since the System is a Mary Sue System, I think I've figured it out.

But I've got one problem: he already has a fiancée. Are you sure you want me to do this?

1. This story is told in third person.

2. Parallel-world Rika (important!!! Please mind the tags!!!)

3. Focuses more on everyday life.

4. Any OOC is on me.

New story in progress: On the Self-Cultivation of a Tea Tree. If you're interested, feel free to add it to your collection

[1]

I'm a recent college graduate doing an internship.

If nothing unexpected happened, my life should have begun quietly and ended just as quietly, like the lives of ordinary women.

But that's all hypothetical.

Because, for some inexplicable reason, I transmigrated.

I became a tiny tea seed that even an ant could threaten.

Before the seed took root and sprouted, I worked hard to find a way back. When it sprouted and grew into a little tea plant, I was still searching. Hundreds of years passed. I grew from a short, plump, beautiful glutinous rice flower tree into the tallest, most striking, most beautiful tree for thousands of meters around, but I still couldn't get back. I was so tired of it all.

Since I couldn't return or turn back into a human, then let everything be destroyed.

Maybe if my tea tree body burned to death one day and I went down to the underworld, I'd have a chance to become human again.

[2]

I was muddling through life as a lazy fish when, one day, the peach tree beside me, who was 800 years younger than I was, got struck by lightning. I thought he was going to die, but then he transformed into a human.

In an instant, my mind cleared, and I stopped being a lazy fish. I realized I had been living in an era of cultivation.

I worked hard to cultivate so I could become human again. Just as I thought I was ready to draw heavenly lightning and undergo a tribulation, my peach tree neighbor of several thousand years came over to tell me something.

After the founding of the nation, plants and animals in Huaxia can't become spirits.

Me: ??? Meow meow meow? I just want to know, in what way do I look like an animal?

[3]

My hope of becoming human was gone once again, so I gave up and went back to being a lazy fish.

But my little brother, the peach tree, came up with an idea.

If it wouldn't work in Huaxia, I could just go to a country that acknowledged demons, ghosts, and gods to transform.

In the end, I chose to go abroad and become a mixed-race person rather than keep being a tea tree. Japan, right next to Huaxia, seemed like a good fit.

I successfully took human form. Just as I was congratulating myself and getting ready to welcome a wonderful new life, I discovered that I had become a little girl barely over a meter tall!

That wasn't even the worst part. If I returned to Huaxia in this body, my body would stop growing completely. In other words, I would never grow even one centimeter taller.

I was furious. I'd never seen the laws of nature be so strict.

So I could grow up and have long legs, I left the home I hadn't moved from in thousands of years, with the peach tree leading the way. It broke my heart.

[4]

I came to Japan, and the peach tree found me a temporary guardian. His name was Sanada Gen'emon.

He was an old man who looked incredibly fierce but unexpectedly liked children.

The peach tree also found me a high-paying job.

I became a Saniwa.

Although I still don't really understand what a Saniwa does, basically, I provide spiritual energy to a bunch of handsome sword spirits.

That's no challenge at all for me, now that I've successfully undergone a tribulation and become a tea tree immortal.

And so, after the peach tree returned to Huaxia to work hard, I began my everyday life in Japan.

Theme: Many hands make light work; there's always a way to overcome difficulties.