Chapter 1 – Super School
"Mu Chen is first place again this time. It seems like he's going to win the national scholarship again," someone said in the library, with a hint of jealousy.
"I heard he just won first prize in the national math competition a few days ago."
"What? He also won the special global prize in the previous interdisciplinary modeling competition for university students!"
"I heard he's also a computer genius and won the Turing Prize. For a high schooler to win that… it's incredible."
"They say he's even applied for three invention patents."
"How can someone be such a genius?"
"You say he's so amazing? But I think he's just a nerd. Sure, he can take tests, but let's see how good he really is in society."
"That's not true—I heard Mu Chen can cook, and he's actually quite skilled."
"No, he really can cook. He doesn't spend all his time studying."
"Actually, I heard from Mu Chen's roommate that this guy loves to read romance novels and has spent a lot of time reading them."
"Spending so much time reading romance novels and still getting such high grades… that's unbelievable."
"If geniuses like this exist, they must be struck by lightning."
"Yes, someone like that shouldn't even exist. He throws off the balance of society! He should be struck by lightning and erased!"
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Mu Chen lay in bed, silently staring at the ceiling. The next moment, he was struck by lightning.
The extra memories in his mind told him he had time-traveled.
As the saying goes: When things are going well at home, disaster comes from above. Mu Chen couldn't figure out which god he had offended or how he ended up like this.
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"Mister, sir, are you awake?" a servant entered and asked.
"Qi Si, get out. Leave me alone."
"Young Master, there's a three-eyed wolf king fighting in the Coliseum today. Would you like to go watch?"
"Leave," Mu Chen said coldly.
Qi Si looked Mu Chen over a few times, then left in a panicked hurry.
"…"
Even Qi Si was kicked out. The young master usually treats him quite well.
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"Coliseum."
"I'm not going."
"Mister, this is the first time someone has cared so much about someone else, and you're rejecting them so harshly… it's just so sad."
"If you ask me, there's no grass growing anywhere else. He looks pretty decent, Young Master. You should give up."
"Isn't Zhuang Yu better looking? What's so special about this guy?"
Mu Chen sighed softly and put in both his earbuds.
After transmigrating, Mu Chen had fused with the soul of the original body's owner. His hearing power had increased several times over, so now he could clearly hear every word his two servants were saying.
Mu Chen lightly rested his forehead on his hand and sighed with a bit of sorrow—he hadn't just time-traveled, he had actually traveled into the romance novel he'd been reading.
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The novel told the story of the rise of a white lotus shou.
Bai Lianhua came from a humble background, had an outstanding appearance, was innocent and kind, and kept attracting one man after another who would go through fire and water for him.
Those men usually had two outcomes—
If they were fortunate, they'd become part of his harem.
If they weren't, they became cannon fodder.
It was quite tragic that the person Mu Chen had transmigrated into was a second-generation ancestor—
a side character in the original book who was ignorant, perverted, undead…
and a wannabe entrepreneur.