Others Work Themselves to the Bone, I Lie Flat

Lin Youwei, a burned-out worker obsessed with competing, suddenly dies and transmigrates. She vows never to get caught up in the rat race again.

But the golden finger Heaven gives her turns out to be a Rat Race System!

Hmph, that's no challenge. As long as she pretends not to see it, no one can make her compete.

Until she suddenly discovers that she's transmigrated into a book as some random passerby number N.

The book is titled After They Read My Mind, I Became Everyone's Darling.

It tells the story of the heroine, who is reborn and uses her knowledge of the plot and her gossip System to make snarky comments, clear up misunderstandings with her family from her previous life, and take down villains. Along the way, she catches the attention of powerful people and lives happily ever after, adored by everyone.

Lin Youwei is just a passerby the heroine mentions, who was worked to death on the job because of her awful family.

Lin Youwei: ...

So she's still not over dying from overwork, huh?

Knowing the story's plot only makes Lin Youwei more determined not to join the rat race. She starts taking it easy from childhood.

Her family's awful and lazy, right?

No problem. She'll be even lazier than them.

Finally, when she turns five, she and the Rat Race System reach an understanding.

According to the Rat Race System, if she can find someone to complete her rat race tasks for her, she can lie flat and avoid competing, while still receiving the rewards.

How hard could that be?

Lin Youwei immediately signs up her awful parents and little brother.

The Lin family, already notorious for being awful, has suddenly become industrious. Until now, they never got up before ten, but for the past two days they've been setting up their stall at six or seven every morning, looking thrilled as if they'd scored a bargain.

They have no idea that Mr. and Mrs. Lin are listening to the mechanical voice in their heads and have decided to get up at five tomorrow.

[Ding! You set up your stall earlier than 60% of the market's vendors. +2 points]

[Ding! “Peeling fruit for your big sister” puts you ahead of 70% of little brothers nationwide and earns your sister's affection. +1 point]

Lin Youwei thought she'd have nothing to do with the heroine, but her parents worked so hard that they moved the whole family to the heroine's city. Then she ended up at the same school.

Good news: they're not in the same class.

Bad news: she's in the same class as the second male lead.

One more piece of bad news: the System tells her that there are high school study-race tasks.

A new target for the rat race, huh?

Lin Youwei immediately signs up the second male lead, a delinquent with terrible grades.

[Ding! Memorize 500 vocabulary words today. You beat 88% of students your age. +1 point]

Theme: Everyone is the protagonist of their own story