Human desire is often impossible to satisfy.
At first, as a young secretary, Su Wanyi’s greatest wish had simply been to marry into a wealthy family.
The original wife died a violent death, Su Wanyi, through her daughter, married up into Lin Zhenwei’s household, and once she’d actually become a rich wife, a little scheming settled the matter of that eyesore, the original wife’s daughter.
Aside from shopping, shopping, and more shopping, Su Wanyi had nothing much to do every day.
Lin Zhenwei was capable enough in his own right, starting from nothing, he’d built his company into a strong, large one, and the Lin family had at least managed to catch the last ride into this city’s elite circles.
But those noble ladies of high society didn’t think much of Su Wanyi, who’d come from a humble background and had brought a child from a previous marriage with her when she married Lin Zhenwei.
And Lin Zhenwei himself, in order to grow the company, threw almost his entire self into it.
Working overtime, staying out entertaining clients all night, these were common occurrences.
Naturally, the “rich wife” Su Wanyi, empty and lonely in her cold house, often had the driver Old Huang take her out shopping.
Ride after ride, and the two of them developed feelings that shouldn’t have been there.
The piano room’s layout included a large floor-to-ceiling glass window.
Perhaps they were confident that no one in the villa was still awake at this hour.
At this time of night, normally, that fat pig Lin Tingwan would already be dead asleep.
The people inside didn’t even bother pulling the curtains shut.
Watching as Old Huang’s hand moved further and further down, even touching places it shouldn’t,—
how vulgar. Lin Tingwan had no interest in watching some low-class exercise.
This disgusting scene had actually filled Lin Tingwan’s stomach, she felt she no longer needed to go looking for food to fill it.
And besides, she had no intention of barging in to catch them in the act right now.
When the cat’s away, the mice will play.
Aside from Auntie Liu, who had no say in anything, all the servants in this household listened to Su Wanyi.
Lin Tingwan decided to keep this matter to herself for now, it might be very useful later.
That Old Huang had always been the one driving beside her scumbag father, and Lin Tingwan even maliciously speculated:
Whose daughter was Lin Yuexuan, really?
Perhaps because everything that had happened today was too strange, and also because in her past life Lin Tingwan had been tormented by illness, her sleep quality had never been very good either.
She woke up before six, and looking at the unfamiliar surroundings, she was dazed for a moment.
Lin Tingwan called out tentatively:
【Xiaobai? A new day has begun, are you going to assign me some study tasks again?】
Anyway, her identity right now was a student, and studying was something she had to do every day.
So Lin Tingwan simply took the initiative to ask for more tasks.
Besides helping her body recover its health as quickly as possible, it would also let her build up more strength, to avenge the original owner.
What’s it like having a host you can’t communicate with in normal human speech?
Ask the Top Student System right now, it can guarantee you the best answer.
But the system, too lazy to bother correcting her, replied helplessly:
【Host, please wait. This system will now start the process of issuing daily study tasks.
Before that, please take the time to understand this system’s structure and various rules and regulations in detail.】
Understood, yesterday was their first day getting to know and merge with each other, both sides still in the probing stage.
Today was probably the real start of her mutual growth with the Top Student System, know yourself and know your enemy, and you’ll win every battle.
Lin Tingwan carefully read through the large block of text the system’s control panel displayed in her mind, and summarized it into the following points:
The Top Student System would issue tasks centered on study for the host every day, divided into daily tasks, stage tasks, and challenge tasks.
The core reward was life value, besides that, there were also point rewards, which represented the host’s added value.
Point rewards could be used in the exchange store to trade for items.
Besides that, there was also a punishment mechanism, if the host failed to complete a task on time, life value would be deducted.
【No way, Xiaobai. I don’t have many days left to live as it is. If failing a task also deducts life value, isn’t that forcing me to explode on the spot right now?】
【Reward and punishment in equal measure is a principle this system has always upheld. If the host tries their best to complete tasks conscientiously, wouldn’t that avoid such troubles?】
Lin Tingwan had just let out a long sigh when a series of mechanical voices, one after another, sounded in her mind.
The system was issuing her tasks, and, they were consecutive, too.
【Daily task: actively answer the teacher’s questions in class. Answer three teachers’ questions correctly in a row to earn Wisdom points +10 (exchangeable for 24 hours of life value).】
【Stage task: within one week, actively answer questions in every class, with an accuracy rate above 80%, to earn Wisdom points +30 (exchangeable for 72 hours of life value).】
【Challenge task: issued randomly. Completing it earns Wisdom points +50 (exchangeable for 120 hours of life value).】
【Failing any one task will result in punishment: life value -24 hours. At the same time, if all three of the above tasks are completed, you can gain Health value +100, a reward of 1000 points, and light up three icons in the exchange store.】
The rewards all sounded good, Lin Tingwan was confident she wouldn’t fail.
But what did that last task mean?
Way too abstract. When in doubt, ask the system.
But the system’s answer was even more of a joke:
【This system doesn’t know either. That task is random, the host will know when they encounter that situation.】
…
After a quick wash-up, Lin Tingwan shouldered her school bag, ready to head to school.
Being a student wasn’t bad, wearing the uniform every day meant not having to worry about dressing up or doing her hair.
Walking to the stairwell corner, she happened to run into Auntie Liu, who was heading to the kitchen to prepare breakfast.
“Miss, you’re up so early today? Wait a moment, breakfast will be ready soon.” Auntie Liu said, moving to go into the kitchen.
“No need, Auntie Liu. I’ll eat at the school cafeteria.”
Since the school had boarding students, it naturally had a cafeteria too, but Su Wanyi, in order to build up her image as a good stepmother, had applied to have the original owner registered as a day student right at the start of the term.
The excuse given was that she was worried the girl wouldn’t eat or sleep well at school.
This had actually earned no end of praise from Lin Zhenwei, who generously gave his dear wife yet another supplementary card.
Little did he know, Su Wanyi’s words only sounded nice on the surface, in reality, she just wanted to do something underhanded.
Auntie Liu still hesitated a little, she remembered the eldest young lady complaining in front of the mistress that the school cafeteria food wasn’t good.
The young miss probably didn’t like it either, only she didn’t dare say so in front of the mistress.
But Lin Tingwan had already waved goodbye to her: “Auntie Liu, don’t worry, the breakfast at the school cafeteria is quite good too. I’m off to school, see you tonight.”
Yesterday when she got home the potion had still been in effect, now, luckily, the Marrow-Cleansing Water was also doing its work.
Even so, she’d only just reached the bus stop when Lin Tingwan already felt sweat all over, her lungs feeling like they were about to burst.
It seemed her main task right now, besides studying hard to earn life value, should also include putting weight loss on the agenda.
In her past life, to look good on camera, the Best Actress had always kept her weight controlled within a hundred, or even ninety, jin.
Now she’d become a 150-kilogram fat woman, the gap between the two could well be imagined.
Still, Lin Tingwan comforted herself, at least she was alive, and could even gain life value through the system.
Suddenly, the mechanical voice in Lin Tingwan’s mind sounded again:
【Host, a challenge task has arrived. Living humans, besides health, also wish for a perfect figure.
Please complete a certain amount of training each day, until you succeed in losing weight, and you can earn a corresponding reward.】
【So what training task do I need to complete?】
Lin Tingwan hurriedly asked, did this count as her wish coming true?
She’d only just been thinking about how to lose weight, and the system had immediately issued her a challenge task.
Losing weight was already her own wish anyway, and she could get an extra reward on top of it, this feeling of getting a free ride off the system really wasn’t bad!