Taking Over the Family Business Is Really Hard

Thanks for asking. I'm in ancient times, my father is the head of an academy, and I'm being forced to take the imperial exams. Unfortunately, I have limited talent. I can't pass the palace examination or the provincial examination, and I'm stuck struggling with the metropolitan examination. I can't pass, can't pass, there's no way I'll pass.

Lin Qinghe angrily flips the table. I'm done being an exam candidate. I'm going to tear down the parasol.

The headmaster's son fails the spring exams time and again, and the academy's reputation plummets. Students start withdrawing in droves. His father is so furious he coughs up blood and takes to his bed, unable to bring himself to teach. He has no choice but to make his son take over.

And so a grand academy-reform campaign begins. There are little exams every three days and big exams every five. They even hire cooks and carpenters, except they're not brought in to work as cooks and carpenters, but as teachers.

Lin's father is furious and yells, "You wretch! What does this have to do with the imperial exams?"

He practically wants to leap out of bed and beat his son to death, crying to the heavens, "My reputation in my twilight years is ruined!"

Lin Qinghe says: There's no way I'm inheriting this family business. You sure ask for a lot!

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Coming Soon: "Using a Superstar System to Get the Cultivation World Online"

Thanks for asking. I'm in the Huaning Minor World of a vast cultivation world. My goal is to become a world-class superstar, but in reality, I'm working on bringing internet access to the countryside.

As luck would have it, Tang Qingran is suddenly shoved into the spotlight. You know the world is a giant amateur production, and the Superstar System is no different.

In the cultivation world, where the fittest survive, there are almost no advantages beyond incredibly advanced and bizarre forms of transportation.

Communication talismans are expensive and rare. People communicate by shouting across mountains at one another. Discrimination against minor worlds has existed since ancient times, and the barriers between them are supposedly impossible to break.

In short, all the stories about other worlds are just hearsay.

Fortunately, he meets a good senior fellow disciple, Yun Wuyue.

After a lot of hard work, the peerless senior brother becomes his fan, providing an endless supply of affection points.

The Superstar System finally boots up and tells Tang Qingran that his peerless senior brother is actually the Demon Lord of the cultivation world.

Tang Qingran panics. No wonder his senior brother is so hot and cold. Only the little games Tang Qingran accidentally developed can cheer him up. He'd thought his senior brother was just a homebody who liked going online to play games.

For the sake of his precious few affection points, Tang Qingran puts up with it.

Using the acting-life-experience cheat unlocked by the Superstar System, Tang Qingran goes on to create a new kind of spiritual internet that combines technology and spiritual energy, bringing it to every corner of the Huaning Realm.

The rise of the spiritual internet breaks down the barriers between the regions of the Huaning Realm, greatly enriching its culture and entertainment, reducing many disputes, and contributing to peace throughout the realm.

The spiritual internet's influence eventually reaches all the minor worlds in the great cultivation world, and they grow green with envy at the advantages enjoyed by the Huaning Realm.

Who wouldn't want that?

Every day, people post on the spiritual internet asking: Has the cultivation world gotten online today?

And one more thing: Tang Qingran, hurry it up!

An unpredictable, crazy Demon Lord who can't survive without games

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A hardworking technical genius who doesn't actually want to get the world online, but would rather slack off and complain

Theme: The importance of education.