To Get Stronger, I Lay in Bed for Forty-Nine Days [Interstellar Academy]

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After working herself to death, workaholic Song Xiajue transmigrated into a student about to take the interstellar entrance exam.

Seeing the original owner’s dismal grades, her workaholic spirit blazed to life.

Song Xiajue slapped the table and jumped up, determined to cram like crazy before the exam.

[You have activated the Slacker System.]

[Standing: All attributes -1000%.]

Her whole body went limp, and she fell back into her seat.

[Sitting upright: All attributes +1000%.]

Song Xiajue refused to believe it and stood up again.

[All attributes - - - -]

She went limp and sat down.

[All attributes ++++]

Song Xiajue: "That’s enough!"

She repeated the stand-and-sit cycle a hundred times.

Classmates passing by all turned to stare. "Damn, is she crazy?"

Song Xiajue collapsed in despair.

The System spoke again.

[Lying down: All attributes +2000%.]

[Permanent attributes: +1 per second.]

She was defeated.

But her workaholic spirit would never be defeated.

Even lying down, she would lie down longer than anyone else.

She lay in bed for forty-nine days and nights without sleep or rest, as if undergoing ascetic training.

And so, on the day of the interstellar entrance exam,

a student in a wheelchair slowly made her way through the crowd amid everyone’s astonished stares, demanding to challenge the top-ranked student.

Top-ranked student: "I can knock you down in one move."

Song Xiajue: "You really want to make me lie down?"

*

For two thousand years, alien races had coveted the human planets.

Humanity’s six great defensive lines had fought to the death to hold them back.

The Myriad Stars Academy bore the burden of one of those lines, the most vulnerable one.

Then, one day, the aliens discovered that this most vulnerable defensive line had been forged into a slaughterhouse for all races.

The battlefield ran with blood, corpses littered the ground.

A person in a wheelchair burst onto the battlefield.

Story idea saved on March 22, 2025

Theme: Strive with all your might