“Hoo—”
Putting down Essential Qualifications for Actors in his hand, Yuji somewhat tiredly stretched out his fingers to massage his temples.
Yuji, 8 years old this year, was a transmigrator.
However, unlike countless transmigrators of all sizes.
He transmigrated as a newborn.
I must say, that period right after transmigrating as a newborn was truly a history of blood and tears.
A newborn child couldn’t control the surging sleepiness and basically slept in bed all day long.
His waking time all counted up was only about four hours a day, and he had to close his eyes every half an hour.
His limbs were weak and limp, and lying in bed he couldn’t even freely roll his body over.
Fortunately, the only advantage of having an adult’s soul was that his adaptability was very strong—really very strong.
About two days after transmigrating as a newborn, a blank-faced Yuji, looking at the nurse teasing him with both hands, more or less figured out the surrounding situation.
First, he had probably transmigrated.
Second, this place didn’t seem to be China, but Japan.
As for Japanese…
In his past life, because of work reasons, he would occasionally go on business trips to Japan.
Therefore, as for Japanese, not to say how fluent and smooth it was, coping with most daily conversations was still not a big problem.
The final point, and also the most crucial point, was—
He seemed to have inexplicably become an orphan.
This didn’t mean his parents had already passed away.
But rather that his parents simply couldn’t be found anywhere.
Judging from the fragmented conversations between the nurses he overheard, he seemed to be an infant abandoned in a relief institution outside a hospital.
It looked like his biological mother was probably one of those ‘ah, nothing’s wrong’ ‘good girls’—in Japan, such unexpected girls were quite numerous.
After wantonly enjoying their youth in certain places, they subsequently abandoned the innocent child, dusted off their bottoms, and continued enjoying their own lives.
Fortunately, Yuji’s biological mother still had a tiny bit of conscience and didn’t throw him into a ubiquitous public restroom, but instead, after giving birth to him, quietly placed him at the relief institution outside the hospital.
A bit of conscience, but not too much.
Just like that, with the support of the relief institution and amidst the shocked gazes of the nurses, Yuji smoothly grew up to two years old and successfully became a local celebrity—
Yes, a celebrity.
In the astonished eyes of the surrounding adults, little Yuji was not only able to converse fluently with people at the tender age of two, but could also effortlessly complete high school-level coursework handed over by adults.
In his daily life, he especially liked browsing through books on literature and philosophy.
“If I didn’t know his age, I’d suspect he was already in his twenties this year.”
The director of the rescue institution evaluated him to others like that.
Meanwhile, Yuji had no intention of hiding his unusual nature.
At two years old, being already able to converse fluently with people, he was naturally transferred to a nearby orphanage to be educated on behalf by Director Minami Mao.
However, very soon, Minami Mao discovered something.
This child…
Was simply not someone she could educate!
Polite to people, able to learn anything instantly upon being taught, mental math, philosophical questions, sciences and humanities—everything was a breeze for him.
This was simply a born prodigy.
And at that time, there was still a quite serious phenomenon of children bullying each other within the orphanage.
Minami Mao and the other adults were all aware of this.
Yet whenever they wanted to get to the bottom of it and solve the problem, the victims would always cower and not dare to speak up.
This caused the director and the others to feel an incomparable headache.
However, just one week after Yuji arrived.
Several children who took the lead in bullying others collapsed in tears before Minami Mao, snot and tears mixed together, and successively confessed and apologized to her.
Looking at the crying, terrified children in front of her.
Minami Mao opened her mouth, her eyes couldn’t help but look over to the other side at Yuji, who was sitting under the shade of a tree supporting his cheek and expressionlessly flipping through a book, and swallowed hard.
To this day, she still didn’t understand what Yuji had done.
She only knew that ever since then, whenever some ‘thorny’ children transferred into the orphanage, within a day or two, or two or three days, they would inevitably come to her on their own initiative to bow their heads and admit their mistakes.
And from then on, Yuji practically became the ‘commander-in-chief’ of the children in the orphanage.
Even during ordinary days, when most children saw him, there was an inexplicable sense of awe in their eyes.
Because of this, Yuji quickly became the favorite around the orphanage director.
Basically, any charity-related social events would bring him along — there was no help for it, little Yuji was simply too useful, and especially good at swindling…
cough cough, using the word’swindle’ here was really somewhat inappropriate; as a ‘poor little thing’ role in charity, Yuji was simply too good at earning other people’s tears.
As time passed in a flash, the present day arrived.
Yuji was 8 years old this year.
And the most crucial thing was —
“Through systematic Study, your Acting skill has improved by a small amount.”
“Your skill: Acting level has risen.
Current level LV8, Acting trait unlocked: Born Star.”
“Oh?”
Yuji, who had always been listless, gained a bit of interest.
It was rare for this trash system to have a prompt today.
He extended his finger forward.
An exceptionally simple light-blue light screen laid out flat in front of him.
‘Cultivation User: Yuji.’
‘Life Attributes: Academic Ability 8, Appearance 9, Sports 8.’
‘Currently Cultivated Skills: Study LV8, Acting LV8, Modern Mixed Martial Arts LV9.’
‘Currently Unlocked Traits: ① Study Maniac (Addicted to Study, you possess the ability to quickly master all skills) ② Superman Physique (Through years of sports training, your physical fitness has already surpassed most adults, and you possess extraordinary dynamic vision, resilience, and stamina) ③ Born Star (This is the result of your hard work; polishing your Acting day and night, you are undoubtedly a truly Born Star.
The moment you step onto the Acting stage, your Acting will capture everyone’s attention)’
‘Limit Mode: Not Activated (Activate or not?
Yes / No?)’
‘Cultivation Game Evaluation: Goodness!
As a human, you are already a sufficiently perfect organism!
Just how much more perfect do you want to become?’
Yuji’s gaze skipped over these miscellaneous options, and his gaze lingered on the ‘Cultivated Skills’ column.
“Acting is LV8 now.”
He let out a breath of satisfaction, stretched lazily, and then looked at the attribute panel in front of him…
As he looked, he couldn’t help the corners of his mouth twitching, his face full of disgust.
It was actually not surprising that Yuji had this reaction.
Because if one only looked at the gorgeous data on this system page, some people might still feel that with this system, life was already completely smooth sailing and flat all the way.
But in reality —
It was simply not like that at all!
Because this wicked contraption was completely different from a general point-adding system where one pats their hand and says “System, let me see your limit!”!
It leaned more towards being of the type “Yuji, let me see your limit!”
The specific operation process required Yuji to first set a goal for a Cultivation skill.
For example, the system direction set by Yuji was “Acting”.
Then Yuji as the user had to work hard to Study everything about Acting.
This was similar to a game.
As long as Yuji was willing to work hard to “fight monsters and run dungeons”, he would definitely obtain “experience points” related to “Acting”.
Then, at this time someone would definitely ask.
If Yuji lived in idle comfort and studied nothing at all, what system assistance could he get?
Sorry, there was no such good thing.
If one didn’t actively approach and Study, of course nothing could be obtained.
This sounded like a truism, but placed on something that sounded as high-end as a “System”, it was completely different.
Equivalent to things that other web novel protagonists could accomplish by just moving their hands and adding some points, Yuji had to Study until he wanted to vomit blood to achieve them.
In other words, beneath these rows of gorgeous data of Yuji’s were basically all the accumulations of his sweat and blood day and night!
For Study skill LV8, Yuji spent two years, almost studying until he threw up before lighting it up.
For Modern Mixed Martial Arts LV9, Yuji spent a full three years, his pair of iron fists pressing and crying countless troublemakers in the orphanage, which could be said to have beaten from the east wall of the orphanage to the west wall, and finally having nothing left to beat, he could only practice independently every day.
Including the current Acting LV8, it was also unlocked almost after Yuji came to Tokyo, studying day and night for half a year, cooperating with the “Study Maniac” trait.
All these various achievements did have a relationship with this wicked system, but the relationship wasn’t all that big.
Because as long as you didn’t work hard to Study, this system was actually roughly equivalent to non-existent.
Of course, this did not mean that this Cultivation system was bad.
On the contrary, the ability that “effort can be rewarded” was already quite terrifying in itself.
After all —
“Many things in this world, even if you have worked hard, are not necessarily rewarded.”
Leaning on the lounge chair, Yuji’s gaze lifted upward.
When he transmigrated into this world, he had actually already noticed certain things.
For instance, an idol with the surname Hoshino was discovered and assassinated by a fan, dying at home.
And for instance, Sakurajima Mai as a popular child star, her popularity was at its zenith.
And for instance, the one met today…
“Kana.”
He muttered this name.
In his past life, Yuji was not particularly fond of watching anime, but the names of these two-dimensional female characters, as long as one browsed some young people’s information and websites, were basically familiar to the ear.
Perhaps at this time someone would think — isn’t this a good thing?
Becoming a child actor, developing further to become a front-line child actor, having a relationship with these wonderful anime heroines, and having a passionate romance…
This was simply a matter that many otaku men and women dreamed of.
But the problem was…
which anime heroine wasn’t a troubled girl?
Some were inexplicably sharp-tongued, some had psychological problems, and some were always threatening to seek their own death or had multiple personalities…
They were already so hard to handle in anime.
Let Yuji handle them in reality?
Wasn’t this purely joking?
He was only an 8-year-old child!
In fact, Yuji didn’t particularly want to manage Kana who was in loss today.
Yet he had to manage it.
The reason was very simple —
“white coastline” was the first proper movie starring Yuji that had a supporting character name — not the kind of “Child A” or “Child B” that flashed briefly in the ending credits.
He could not watch helplessly as Kana, the female lead, performed poorly and ruined the work he had so painstakingly participated in — did he know how rare the opportunities were for a nobody child actor like him to appear and act?
But since he had already done this matter, he wouldn’t regret it either.
“Sigh —”
Yuji sighed slightly.
One had to say that life as a contraption was after all not always plain sailing.
Just like the matter of him proactively becoming a child actor — more mainly because he had no choice but to become a child actor.
The orphanage he transmigrated into via fetal transmigration was located on a small island near Okinawa.
That was a quite remote place.
Sea breezes eroded it, and the orphanage was in disrepair.
Even if kind-hearted people were willing to do charity, facing the increasing number of orphans, tight rooms, and room areas needing repair, those monies were merely a drop in the bucket.
He had seen more than once director Minami Mao running around for money.
Although she had already accumulated illnesses from overwork and coughed up blood, she was still scraping and bowing to the phone night after night, contacting charitable institutions.
People in the world rush about in panic, merely for a few liang of broken silver; yet it is precisely these few liang of broken silver that can resolve all kinds of panic in the world…
Who wouldn’t want to spend a lifetime in mediocrity and happiness?
Yuji was actually no exception.
Yet he could not be mediocre.
He was a worldly person, and he knew that he had to survive within this industry.
And he couldn’t just survive.
He had to become wildly popular!
Earn big money!
Therefore!
He had to accumulate experience!
Relying on the system, accumulate, accumulate, accumulate!
And then continue to accumulate!
Then —
Maintain his own patch of land that he transmigrated into.
Thinking of this.
Yuji patted his face, forced himself to cheer up, and looked at the tabletop in front of him.
On the tabletop, there was a fresh audition invitation, as well as a thick script — “He and She”.
Very good!
Yuji gained spirit.
This time, he would no longer provoke any two-dimensional heroines!
He would only look after himself!
And smoothly stand out among the crowd of child actors to win the audition!
Meanwhile, right on the other side.
“Yuji…
Yuji…”
Wearing white little socks, standing on a bench, Kana muttered as she searched the internet for information about the other party.
The reason she wanted to find this guy was because in every sense, the other party had done something very rude to her.
Indeed.
Just thinking about what happened today made Kana quite angry.
Her rounded cheeks puffed up with a ‘hump’ sound, making her look just like a hamster.
For the first time!
For the first time, someone stared at her with a face full of disgust!
And she was lectured extensively with a condescending attitude!
And in the end…
Kana’s fingers lifted.
She subconsciously stroked the strands of hair by her ear.
She still remembered the tactile sensation of the other person reaching out to stroke her head when they left.
It was a kind of touch…
filled with a sense of soothing and comfort.
No way!
She shook her head vigorously.
Kana puffed up her cheeks again.
“Apologize!
You must make him apologize!”
That’s right!
How dare he treat her, a genius child actor, like this!
This must make that minor child actor who couldn’t even be searched for on the internet realize the weight of the word’senior’!
The little devil in her heart ran back and forth, whispering in her ear.
But…
what about after making him apologize…?
The little devil in her heart slowly dissipated.
Kana quickly thought of this question.
Then.
She let out a huff, looking haughty.
“Then I”ll reluctantly let him be friends with me.
Anyway, that guy looks so haughty, he probably doesn’t have many friends anyway.”
With a soft ‘ugh’, Kana collapsed onto the bed, her bright, sun-like eyes exposed at the edge of the pillow.
Lately, it’s all been bad news in the industry.
Declining popularity, her mother not understanding her…
But…
For some reason, just thinking about today’s events made Kana hug her pillow and roll around on the bed with a ‘gururu’.
This was the first time she had looked forward to tomorrow in the industry this much.
And not far behind her lay a thick script.
Large, clear characters were left on it.
“she and him”.