In High School, Does My Romance System Have It Right?

[Your income has been deemed insufficient. You have fallen below the kill line. Activating the Assistance System.]

Before even taking the college entrance exam, Lu Yu is classified by the System as a homeless man below the kill line.

[At thirty-five, you've been laid off and are sleeping by a sewer entrance. You've lost your wife, your home has been repossessed, and with a freezing rainstorm on the way, your life is flickering like a candle in the wind.]

[Find hope again, starting with a full meal. Basic reward: 500 yuan.]

Ordinary high school student Lu Yu stares at the “slop” in the school cafeteria and realizes the System has probably mistaken his age and nationality.

[The best way to climb the social ladder is to manage upward. Go to the wealthy district and visit your childhood sweetheart, who parted ways with you during college. Basic reward: 700 yuan.]

Words appear around the wealthy young lady who's been at odds with him since childhood.

[Rebuilding your social life is part of returning to society. Stay in touch with your ex-girlfriend from school for thirty days. Basic reward: Skill: Beginner Wish-Granting Machine.]

A mission appears above the head of the aloof beauty who ranks first in their grade.

[Find the wife who left you and bring your story together to an end. Basic reward: ■■■■■]

“Wasn't this supposed to be about struggling above the kill line? Why is it all romantic battle royales?”

Looking at the two girls beside him, Lu Yu wonders if the thing that'll kill him isn't a cleaver after all.

Well, at this point, he might as well eat first.

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Just a wholesome, sunny, positive romance novel.