Go Back to Before the Zombie Outbreak and Open a Survival School

In the fifth year of the zombie outbreak, humanity was wiped out. Fu Qing, the last person left alive, died in despair, only to open her eyes and find herself back before the disaster began.

The city was bright and peaceful, the weather beautiful.

Just as Fu Qing was getting ready to make the most of her life, a voice suddenly rang out in her mind.

[Campus Simulation Management System successfully bound!]

[Mission objective: Teach survival skills, train elite fighters, establish a fully equipped [Survival School], and become humanity's last refuge!]

[Time until the first wave of infections: 364 days, 23 hours, 35 minutes, 48 seconds,]

Fu Qing: ...

You've got to be kidding me. It's the last glorious year of civilization on Blue Star, and you want me to babysit a bunch of kids?

-

The freshmen of Fangzhou University, Class of 9999, soon realized something seemed off about their school.

What the heck are “Identifying Zombie Species,” “Crop Cultivation,” and “An Introduction to Stockpiling” doing on the syllabus?

Why is an aspiring broadcasting and hosting major required to take cross-country training with weapons?

Other students spend orientation standing at attention under the sun. Why were they hauled straight into full-dive pods and dropped into a horde of zombies from the start?

The top liberal arts student, trembling as she was dragged into the military command classroom, stared blankly. Why did all the enemies her teacher talked about seem to be nonhuman?

The athletic standout, utterly confused after being assigned to the elite class, nearly fainted. Was it really appropriate to start by teaching them how to sever someone's tendons?

And when they tried to drop out, an [Application Denied] window popped up right in front of them!

A month later, the freshmen had reached their breaking point.

They went together to protest to the principal: There was no way anyone in the world could take down three zombies in a minute!

The young principal raised her eyes and arched a brow.

Thirty seconds later, the freshmen watched in stunned silence as the principal chopped down ten little zombies as easily as slicing vegetables.

Fu Qing rolled her wrist and turned around. Any other questions?

The freshmen huddled together, trembling like chicks: ...

They swallowed hard. N-no.

-

In the year 10000 of the Blue Star Calendar, an unknown virus swept across the globe.

Just when humanity was on the brink of despair, a group of students appeared out of nowhere, drew their battle axes with practiced ease, and took out one little zombie after another.

They helped terrified people establish bases, grow vegetables, and stockpile supplies;

taught everyone how to identify zombie species accurately and choose the right treatment;

even assembled an elite force that stormed the Zombie King's lair...

With students from Fangzhou University leading the way, Huaguo became the world's strategic center, an island standing firm amid the storm, as countries everywhere came seeking help.

When the crisis had passed and reconstruction was underway, the media rushed in to interview them: What inspired you to perform such heroic deeds?

The students teared up. We have our principal to thank for that!

(Because she was just so terrifying T_T.)

[Blurb archived: 2023/10/09]

[Reader's Note]

1. This blurb was posted a long time ago, so some details may differ from the finished story. The core premise and highlights remain unchanged.

2. There is little romance, but it has an ensemble cast and management elements. The setting is semi-fictional, so please don't compare it to real life.

3. Due to health reasons, I don't have much energy and don't read many comments. I'll keep my head down and write steadily. Thanks to everyone who stops by, and happy reading!

"Coming Soon"

"High-Roller Investments: Making Ten Million a Day [Entertainment Industry]"

Overworked wage slave Xia Qin gets bound to a reverse investment System. As long as she makes sensible investments, she can withdraw every yuan she loses at a one-to-one rate.

Just then, a six-hundred-million-yuan blockbuster bombs spectacularly. Envious, Xia Qin dives headfirst into the entertainment industry.

Waving around piles of cash, she sets about putting on a show

including, but not limited to, signing a deadweight member who got kicked out of a popular group;

taking over a production team whose funding has dried up, then rewriting the script herself;

signing a pretty face from the bottom rung of the industry whose acting is as lifeless as a robot's, then getting a renowned director to tailor a role just for her;

producing a variety show and bringing together a bunch of washed-up celebrities to gossip for four hours straight, with no editing...

Before long, everyone in the industry had heard the news: Some rich woman with more money than sense had shown up, and she loved meddling!

Rival teams waited for the laughs, while fans of competing stars raised their glasses to celebrate that their idols had dodged the bullet and escaped Xia Qin's clutches.

But when the projects aired,

the forty-episode romance that was supposed to be full of longing and heartbreak began with the heroine stabbing the male lead, her enemy, to death. After that, she roamed the martial world alone with a sword, free and easy!

The bottom-tier pretty face played the mastermind. With blood on her cheek, the shy young woman gave the camera an innocent smile, and her “creepy, robotic vibe” terrified viewers.

No one understood gossip better than a washed-up top-tier star. The variety show's ratings soared with every episode, the production team's phones rang off the hook, and viewers leaned forward, eyes shining. “Go on, don't stop! We want to hear more!”

And the ironback whom everyone had hated had quietly risen to the top. Her natural star power could no longer be hidden.

[I'm so tired of lovesick heroines. Give me a cool-headed, clear-eyed female lead kicking ass!]

[Are xx-group fans blind? How did you let go of a stage queen like her?]

[Please, just let me watch two more episodes. I'll do anything (clawing at my heart]

[Anything made by President Xia is bound to be a masterpiece!!]

Trending topic: #WhereCanWeFindAnotherPowerhouseLikePresidentXia,SoTalented,Creative,AndWillingToFundHerOwnProjects?PleaseTakeALookAtOurIdols!

Xia Qin was bewildered. She'd only wanted to lose money, so why had every project she invested in become a massive hit?!

Years later, when the media interviewed the artists at Peeping Light Entertainment, now wildly successful across the industry, they all said they had President Xia to thank for discovering countless wonderful scripts and performers who would otherwise have been overlooked:

“She had such a keen eye that, in our darkest and most desperate days, she helped us glimpse a ray of light.”

·High-roller heroine / feel-good power fantasy / a winner who succeeds at everything

·A story about losing money, but the heroine will be rich and won't shortchange herself

Theme: United, we can overcome anything