Changzhu Academy Diary

There’s a kind of commercial game built around anime-style characters, long-term operation, gacha and character progression, and a rich storyline.

In the game’s world, there are portals connecting to other worlds, monsters from those worlds, superpowered people who have gained powers from them, and ordinary people, who make up the largest group and have the highest mortality rate.

The player’s protagonist is not only young and full of energy, but also has a special hidden identity. They’ll form a group with their superpowered classmates, team up with superpowered people from various factions, solve mysteries, and save the world.

For the game’s developers and System, meanwhile, the goal is to keep introducing men and women with distinctive personalities: the characters in the gacha pool, giving players a breezy, satisfying gaming experience that feels like romance.

But this kind of world is not at all kind to ordinary people.

Especially when the developers, to increase dramatic tension, put ordinary students and superpowered students in the same school, making the ordinary students into background characters who highlight the superpowered students’ strength... Frustration is inevitable, discontent is inevitable, and rebellion is inevitable.

But how to rebel, and how to understand and work with one another after arguing, fighting, and getting hurt, is a very long story.

Originally titled "A Hundred Ways to Bully the Ordinary Male Lead". You can tell from the title that he gets bullied a lot, so I suggest not identifying with the male lead and just treating it like an anime.

The cover is a completed-novel celebratory illustration by the artist Zhiyun Casfield. Thank you!

Reader’s guide:

1. Two male leads, no CP. They sabotage and help each other, and both are smart (though unfortunately, one has no people skills).

2. An ensemble cast centered on friendship. There are lots of classmates’ names during the opening ceremony, so you don’t need to remember them all yet. Every classmate will keep appearing later.

3. The story was conceived as a way to poke fun at the plots of various gacha games on the market and create a world of ordinary people and superpowered people. Overall, it goes against the usual wish-fulfillment logic. If you haven’t played gacha games, you may only be able to focus on the ordinary-class students, and your reading experience may be halved.

4. This is a new author’s first novel, so it has all the usual flaws. I originally planned three or four years’ worth of story, but realized it was too long to finish, so this book is now limited to the main group’s first school year. I may write what happens after that if people are interested.

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Theme: Knowing is easy, doing is hard. Believe in the power of ordinary people.