Desperate Apprentice

[Wits] + [Fast pace] + [High IQ of all members] + [Odd stories with alternative rules] + [Survival game] + [Group portrait] + [Psychological thriller] Welcome to Youth League High School—no orientation here, just a hunting ground. Four hundred talented freshmen, a month-long survival game. Credits are currency, ranking, and the qualification to survive. Public rules are explicit, hidden rules are hidden, and the shadow of elimination is everywhere. Lan Zhengyu's "welcome gift" is a blank rule card. On a battlefield where rules are weapons, he lost his initial intelligence and had infinite possibilities? Or has it fallen into a deeper dead end? Dusk is approaching, and the emperor's chess game is about to begin. Faced with the unpredictable school administration and competitors who are hard to distinguish from friends and foes, Lan Zhengyu must find the real "cheater" in a maze of rules as precise as a chessboard, and win the last seat in this cruel ceremony that uses intelligence as the blade and survival as the focus.