A Nobody Just Wants to Earn Money for College

(If you read pirated copies, please don’t subscribe just for the bonus chapters. This really takes a lot out of me…) Xuan Jiu transmigrated with his eyes shut and open into the wasteland world of a monster-infested novel. The unfortunate part was that he hadn’t read it. The lucky part was that he had a book that could sort of be called a System, which occasionally gave him useful information. Xuan Jiu believed it. Xuan Jiu stuffed the System into his pocket, and the System led him astray. Before he knew it, he was caught up in the novel’s opening plot a slaughter at the start. He was the random passerby who got killed. After barely surviving the plot’s attempt to kill him, Xuan Jiu wanted nothing more than to return to a normal life. But when he looked at his to-do list, he fell silent. You’ve got some nerve, Mingguang Public University. Tuition is 150,000 a semester? Can someone explain what “public” means? … There was no choice. To earn his university tuition, Xuan Jiu had to take a few detours. Including, but not limited to: Being young and fearless, he lay in wait for a villain, then handed over his catch with an innocent look after successfully capturing him. But the rabbit was too small, so there wasn’t much money in it. He kept the enemy around to make himself look important. Standing amid the corpses of a swarm of insects, he patted the ant queen’s head, bristling with spikes, and sincerely asked, “Can you grow into an S-rank contamination?” After eagerly waiting for an S-rank contamination to show up, Xuan Jiu clasped the monster’s huge, sticky, slippery hand of flesh and blood, smiled brightly, and said, “Thank you. As a reward… what kind of death do you like?” * At first, nobody on the Mutant Forum paid any attention to an utterly ordinary passerby. They took endless pleasure in mocking each other. It was their favorite pastime. “Hey, newbie. Hope you die soon and get reincarnated quickly.” “Heh, you’ve got a little skill, but not much.” “Not as good as so-and-so.” Later, “Mom, why does my face hurt?” And later still, “I admit I was a little too loud when I spoke to you before, ” Xuan Jiu gave a faint smile. “We all had our reasons back then. It’s fine.” Everyone: Stay away from us! But the System warned him: [Don’t show off so much that you make the protagonist suspicious.] Xuan Jiu shook his head in disagreement, then calmly washed his hands under the protagonist’s increasingly strange gaze, swearing off that life for good. He’d earned enough money. From beginning to end, he was just an ordinary person who wanted to make money. Also known as: I Just Wanted to Earn Money for University, So I Had to Go Kill Monsters. The seme is kind of cute, and the uke is cool. A polite, harmless passerby seme X a composed, cool-guy protagonist uke Seme-focused, one-on-one romance. The seme is the cute one; no swapping roles or breaking up the pairing. The uke loves the seme, and the seme loves him back. The plot comes first. This is a wasteland story about clearing out contamination. There are scenes from the uke’s and his teammates’ perspectives, but the seme remains at the center of the plot. Please read only if that works for you. There’s a forum, but not much of it, as well as jokes and memes for fun. Theme: Knowledge is power