The Story Is Old-School, but the Passerby Girl Is Perfectly Normal

[This novel is written in a "ramen-anime" style: a slice-of-life story made up of short episodes. It's a brand-new experiment for the author.] [You can read only the free chapters. The story is complete before the VIP chapters begin. I hope you won't read pirated copies. You don't have to read or buy the VIP chapters, but it really hurts to see something I've worked so hard on bringing traffic to someone else's site. QAQ...] As the times change, many old-school Mary Sue novels that once seemed perfectly normal now feel like a parade of absurd plot twists. So when Lu Momo transmigrates into one of these old-fashioned novels, she becomes the only normal person in it... One day, the male lead makes his entrance. The entire student body crowds both sides of the school gates, welcoming him with cries of "He's so handsome!" while watching the male and female leads meet for the first time. Only Lu Momo is sprinting the whole way: Aah! I'm going to be late for a required class! In the end, Lu Momo becomes the only student at school to make it to class on time. She earns high praise from her counselor and professor, along with the admiration of the entire student body. What? Someone can actually resist the temptation of a handsome guy and juicy gossip! Later, the male lead bullies the female lead, just as the plot demands, and she silently bears it with tears in her eyes. The other students gather to watch. Some laugh, some are afraid, and some feel sorry for her. Lu Momo can't take it anymore, so she tells the counselor. When the counselor says, "His family is so rich, I really don't dare provoke him," Lu Momo suggests, "You could call his parents." The counselor suddenly sees the light. "Oh, right! I have his dad's phone number!" After a few days of classes, Lu Momo realizes that none of the students at school ever study. That's because, to give the male and female leads time to fall in love, this school has ten-minute classes and forty-minute breaks! Since the whole school spends every break acting as extras in the leads' romance, Lu Momo has nothing to do, so she reads and does her homework. As a result, she comes in first in the final exams, snatching the top scholarship away from the female lead by a mile. Lu Momo: ...It's not that I'm too good. The female lead never studies. Even if she's supposed to be a top student, you can't butcher the character setting like this. Seeing this, the female lead finally comes to her senses. Wait, I need to study hard, get a good job, and support my family. To hell with dating. I'm going to study! And so the most inconspicuous passerby, Lu Momo, becomes a school celebrity simply because she's so normal. Along the way, she also gradually sets all the characters in this Mary Sue story straight... At last, Lu Momo graduates and starts working. She thinks she has finally escaped the Mary Sue novel, but one day at work, she sees a new employee with "innocent and pure" written all over her face rushing into the CEO's private elevator... Lu Momo: SHIFT! Note: 1. A silly, everyday slice-of-life story. Nothing but everyday life. 2. "Shift" is a running joke. Some Mary Sue novels misspell "shit" as "shift." It's a fairly niche joke, so here's an explanation. 3. Due to the story's setup, everyone except the female lead starts out abnormal and brainless. [About the category change: Under the site's latest rules, a one-sided crush counts as no CP. This novel was originally categorized as romance because it only has a few one-sided crushes, so now that the rules have changed, I've had to change it to no CP. The romance plot was very minor to begin with, and most readers' comments agree that this is a no-CP story.] Check out my no-CP comedy novel next door, I Wanted to Die, but Became a God. Blurb: After transmigrating into a book, Mu Yun becomes a minor cannon-fodder character in an old-school cultivation tragedy: a low-ranking disciple in a sect. His mission is to die. He can't kill himself. He can complete the mission by dying at any plot point in the original story, or by being killed by anyone in it. Luckily, Mu Yun has the worst cultivation and the lowest standing in the sect. He's famous throughout the sect as a useless failure. That sounds like a pretty easy way to die. From then on, Mu Yun starts trying every possible way to get himself killed. In the original story, the male lead torments the female lead and punishes her by making her kneel in the freezing snow until she coughs up three feet of blood. Mu Yun takes one look and thinks, This is perfect. My cultivation is so weak that if I kneel there, I won't even need to cough up blood. I'll die on the spot! So Mu Yun rushes to where the female lead is kneeling and pulls her up. "Stop kneeling. I'll take your place!" The female lead: ? Later, the female lead doesn't cough up blood, but Mu Yun doesn't die either. For some reason, Mu Yun thinks the snow isn't very cold. He suspects it's fake, low-quality snow. In the original story, the second male lead is betrayed by everyone and pushed into a dangerous secret realm, where he barely survives. The treasures inside are stolen by others, too. Mu Yun hears this and thinks, Even better! If this secret realm can nearly kill a Golden Core cultivator like the second male lead, then a Qi Refinement cultivator like me should die the moment I step inside! So before the second male lead can be pushed in, Mu Yun darts in front of him. "Don't push him. Push me!" The second male lead: ? Later, the second male lead isn't hurt, but Mu Yun isn't hurt either. For some reason, the demonic beasts in the secret realm break their teeth when they bite him and snap their claws when they scratch him. Mu Yun suddenly understands. So this is false advertising! In the end, Mu Yun makes it to the deepest part of the secret realm and gets the treasures shoved into his hands. He finds the things too heavy, so he casually gives them to the second male lead. The second male lead: ! Mu Yun tries to get himself killed every day. Yet even now, after a great "patriarch" revered by the most powerful figures in both the immortal and demonic realms has supposedly appeared, he still hasn't managed to die. Mu Yun is so focused on finding ways to die that he doesn't realize those powerful figures are actually the original story's little tragic victims. And that so-called "patriarch" is none other than him. Mu Yun stayed in his previous world for so long that he'd forgotten he had already cultivated to the point of ascension. In this world, it's not enough to say his cultivation is extraordinary. He's invulnerable and unbeatable. P.S. Mu Yun never studies cultivation-related knowledge because he believes every profession has its own specialty, and his specialty is dying. So there's no need for him to study things outside his field. As a result, he never realizes just how absurdly powerful his cultivation is. P.P.S. The male lead's thought process is not normal. Theme: Study hard and keep improving every day.