Such a Transmigration Catches One Off Guard

"Beep. Host age 27, 10,000 hours of cumulative toilet time reached. System startup requirements met!"

"Beep. Salted Fish Film and Television Struggle System initializing..."

"Beep. Salted Fish Film and Television System successfully initialized."

"Beep. Please select a film or television world to transmigrate into, Salted Fish Host!"

"Beep. Detected that the host is currently watching the TV drama Love O2O. System loading..."

"Beep. Loading successful. Transmigration function activating..."

"What the hell?!" A bewildered Wang Yue was sitting on the toilet scrolling through Douyin, having just stumbled upon a clip from the TV drama Love O2O, when he heard a series of inexplicable "beeps."

"Damn it, at least let a guy finish wiping and pull up his pants first, will you?!!"

Wang Yue looked around. Thankfully, he was still in the bathroom.

That was important!

"Wang Yue, hurry up! The game is about to start! What are you dawdling for?" A voice suddenly pulled Wang Yue back to reality.

Hearing the voice from outside the bathroom door, Wang Yue instinctively replied, "Coming, coming! Wait a second, Liu Wei."

As he pulled up his pants, Wang Yue began to process the feedback from the system. The person who had just called him was his roommate, Liu Wei. The person he had replaced was also named Wang Yue, a freshman in the Computer Science Department at Qing University. After working his fingers to the bone to get into Qing University, he had completely turned into a "salted fish."

He didn't exactly skip classes, but the tension that had kept him focused had suddenly snapped. Without any goals, he just drifted through his days with his classmates.

The day Wang Yue transmigrated happened to be the day of the School Basketball League, and as the essential "water cooler manager," he was indispensable.

"System?" As a reader of web novels, the concepts of transmigration and systems were already second nature to him. Wang Yue hurriedly tried to contact the system, just like the protagonists in the novels he read.

"System?!"

"System Spirit?!"

This lousy system! It couldn't be one of those that just dumps you in and leaves you to die, could it?

Weren't systems supposed to have missions?

What about the promised skill points?

What was with this complete lack of feedback?!

Wang Yue grumbled to himself as he walked forward. By the time he reached the court, the game had already started, and the stands were packed with a bustling crowd.

Wang Yue sat down by the water cooler with practiced ease, listening to the expectant chatter of some of Xiao Nai's fans behind him. Thank goodness it's not like other transmigration systems, he thought. If it had issued a mission to conquer the female lead, I'd be in trouble.

Bei Weiwei was already being watched by the brooding Xiao Nai. For a "salted fish" like him to go head-to-head with that guy would be like a tiny monster provoking Ultraman.

Wang Yue was lost in thought when Liu Wei nudged him. "What are you thinking about? There are so many beauties behind us today; don't you want to go up there and show off a bit?"

"You're done for. With that kind of attitude, it won't be long before you're kicked off the department team!" Wang Yue changed the subject, shaking his head with a feigned air of mystery.

"What?! Do you know something? Are they really going to cut me?" Liu Wei was startled, his eyes widening as he stared at Wang Yue.

Wang Yue gave Liu Wei a look of disdain and explained patiently, "Think about it. With an opportunity like this, which sophomore, junior, or senior wouldn't want to go up and show off? You're just a little freshman sprout. If you don't stay here honestly and keep me company at the water cooler, do you think you're Kobe?"

"Fair point, Third Brother! I didn't know you had that kind of insight." Liu Wei slapped Wang Yue hard on the shoulder, then added fiercely, "Now tell me, what were you sneaking looks at behind us?"

While the two were chatting, the girls in the stands behind them realized that Xiao Nai probably wasn't coming today, so many of them left one after another, leaving the stands sparsely populated.

After securing a 20-point lead in the second half, the seniors saw that most of the beauties had left and finally allowed the freshman sprouts to go on and run around for a few minutes.

Wang Yue had been pretty good at basketball in his original world, and having transmigrated into a younger body, he felt his physical condition was excellent. After playing a few rounds, the feeling came right back to him.

Once he found his rhythm, Wang Yue transformed into "Wang the Ball Hog." As soon as the ball touched his hands, it either went into the hoop or made a "clank."

Regardless of what others thought, in that moment, Wang Yue felt like he was "Wang Bryant Yue."

"Wang Yue, you just said I didn't want to stay on the team, but with that performance, are you trying to get yourself kicked off?" After Wang Yue was subbed out by the annoyed seniors, Liu Wei wiped the sweat from his face with a towel and rolled his eyes at him in disdain.

"You're a grown man, why are you acting all cute? I heard someone say that before the game started, you confessed to the Campus Belle?" Wang Yue looked at the adorable boy and admired his courage in trying to snatch a woman away from Xiao Nai.

"A fair lady is a gentleman's desire!" Liu Wei held his head high, looking smug.

"I have a feeling you're constantly dancing on the edge of death!" Wang Yue sighed. Thinking of the guy in the TV show who got crushed by Xiao Nai in a one-on-one, he patted Liu Wei's shoulder with genuine sympathy. "You'd better practice your game, or it's going to be ugly!"

"Your logic always makes me feel like something's wrong!"

"You'll understand later!"

"..."

Looking at the oblivious Fourth Brother, Wang Yue mourned for him. The girls around Bei Weiwei were all great, so why try to steal food from a fox like Xiao Nai?

At this thought, Wang Yue glanced at the four girls in the stands cheering for the Computer Science Department and found that they each had their own unique charm—truly a feast for the eyes.

Just then, a voice asked in his ear, "They're pretty, aren't they?"

Wang Yue was busy observing the beauties at close range and instinctively replied, "Pretty."

Seeing that Wang Yue had actually admitted it, the person asked in a deep, meaningful tone, "Which one do you have your eye on?"

Wang Yue snapped back to reality. He turned his head and saw that standing right next to him was none other than Dazhong, the boyfriend of Weiwei's roommate, Xiaoling. He immediately realized that the guy was testing him.

Looking at Dazhong's cracking knuckles, Wang Yue quickly said, "The one next to Bei Weiwei."

Dazhong had managed to get into Qing University after all, so he wasn't about to let Wang Yue brush him off. He looked at Wang Yue with a stern expression and asked, "Cut the crap. There are three of them around the Campus Belle. Which one are you talking about?"

Wang Yue was speechless. Was he really going to be the one to bite the dust for no reason, while Fourth Brother, who had actually provoked Xiao Nai, was perfectly fine?

However, the intelligence that had gotten him into Qing University saved him. Under Dazhong's intense gaze, he gave a quick-witted answer: "The one with the plaid shirt and short hair."

Dazhong scrutinized Wang Yue carefully and, seeing how serious he looked, finally loosened his sandbag-sized fist. He winked and said, "You've got good taste. The other short-haired one is my girlfriend. Do you want her to introduce you?"

Wang Yue couldn't actually let him do that; it had just been an excuse. He waved his hands frantically and said, "No, no, Senior Brother. It's better to handle these things yourself. I wouldn't want to trouble your sister-in-law."

Seeing Wang Yue refuse, Dazhong looked at him suspiciously and asked in all seriousness, "You don't have a crush on your sister-in-law, do you?"

Wang Yue was terrified and waved his hands again, saying quite solemnly, "Senior Brother, what are you thinking? I just want to wait until her hair grows down to her waist before I go and confess to her."

Dazhong blinked his large eyes at Wang Yue after hearing this and laughed with great satisfaction. "My Junior Brother is quite the romantic. 'Wait until her hair grows down to her waist'—hmm, that's a good one."

Back in the dorm, Wang Yue put the matter out of his mind. After washing up, he climbed into bed and started flipping through his textbooks.

This was Qing University! Just thinking about it made him a little excited. When he compared it to the mediocre second-tier college he'd attended in his original world, it all felt surreal. Sigh, no wonder people said you should have dreams; look, his had come true.

Time slipped away unnoticed as Wang Yue studied, reliving the university experience—especially the dream school every student held in their heart.

Everything Wang Yue saw felt so pleasant. Even the trembling spoon of the cafeteria Auntie during dinner seemed adorable.

Wang Yue had been acting strange all day, making his three roommates nervous; they were worried something was wrong with him.

"Fourth Brother, what did you and Third Brother do today? Third Brother hasn't been acting right since you guys finished playing basketball!" Before going to sleep that night, the dorm Boss, Huang Tao, took advantage of the moment Wang Yue went to the bathroom to whisper to Liu Wei.

"How would I know? I think Third Brother is perfectly normal!" Liu Wei thought about it honestly for a moment and didn't find any issues. "Oh, except when we were playing basketball today, he was playing especially flashy. I felt like he treated those last few minutes of the game like his professional retirement match. He successfully transformed into Wang the Ball Hog!"

"Nothing else out of the ordinary? That smug, happy look was written all over his face, and you're telling me this is a sad story?" Second Brother, Jia Honghai, poked his head out from his bed and looked at the dense guy with disdain.

Liu Wei, with his feet soaking in a basin while playing A Chinese Ghost Story on his phone, didn't even look up. "Nothing else special happened today, except that I tried to ask Bei Weiwei out to dinner and failed!"

"Bang!" As soon as Liu Wei finished speaking, a loud thud echoed through the room. He turned his head to see Jia Honghai wrapped in his quilt, having fallen onto the floor.

Boss Huang Tao rushed over to help Jia Honghai up, and then the two of them squeezed Liu Wei between them.

"You asked the Campus Belle to dinner?"

"How did you confess? When was this?"

Liu Wei looked at the two of them, stunned by their excitement. He asked cautiously, "I just saw that the Campus Belle was also playing A Chinese Ghost Story and wanted to ask which server she was on. Is that such a big deal?"