Years ago, the Greater Worlds Administration Bureau developed a batch of new systems to keep the smaller worlds running smoothly.
Unfortunately, the moment those new systems were completed, the higher-ups ordered the entire batch destroyed.
Even though the systems met every specification, that could not conceal their one fatal flaw.
They accepted only life force as a medium for conversion.
Left with no choice, the Management Bureau could only destroy the whole batch.
But two prototypes, Despair and Vitality-the pair of systems into which the most effort had been poured-actually developed self-awareness and escaped from the Management Bureau, vanishing without a trace.
In an ordinary small world, the Vitality system had expended so much energy opening a spacetime jump that it fell into dormancy as soon as it reached its destination.
Meanwhile, looking at the Orphanage before it, the Despair system followed the host-finding mission imprinted in its mind and chose Fu Zhenzhen, who happened to have returned to visit the director, as its host.
Fu Zhenzhen was naturally delighted to have unexpectedly acquired a system. The first thing she did was order it to take her into the novel Pluto Academy Daily Life.
With Jiang Nian, Song Jici, Tong Chuhe, and others as its main characters, the novel followed their everyday high school lives as they helped Gao Wen, Liu Chaoshu, and others escape their troubles while dealing with various nasty incidents on campus. It was a story primarily about youthful friendship, with a touch of romance.
She desperately wanted to enter that world, live as a wealthy young lady, and win the hearts of all the main characters.
Now that her dream was within reach, how could she resist?
Although the Despair system had awakened its self-awareness, it still instinctively obeyed its host's commands.
And so, it used