[Alternate world—leave your brains here]
"The next Guidance Match will be Wang Ren of the School Team versus Ye Li from Class 9, Year Three!"
"Both contestants, begin warming up. You will take the stage in ten minutes!"
The broadcast was piercing, the lights bright.
Inside the waiting room, Ye Li stared at everything before him, his expression somewhat dazed.
Had he transmigrated?
Memories surged into his mind like a tide, swiftly helping him sort out his current situation—
This was a high-martial world where martial arts flourished.
The original owner had been dull and honest, with average aptitude, a happy family, and even a childhood sweetheart he had known since childhood.
At first glance, it looked like the setup of a winner in life, but judging from the memories he had received, the original owner had not lived happily at all.
Being here now meant he was about to take part in a school-level Guidance Match...
"Ye Li! Your opponent is my boyfriend! You're no match for him, so hurry up and forfeit, do you hear me?!"
Just then, an angry, delicate shout came from nearby, interrupting his recollections.
Ye Li held his head and looked up.
At the entrance to the waiting room stood a young girl in a light blue floral dress.
Her sweet face was filled with impatience as she stared straight at Ye Li.
The instant he saw her, Ye Li's slightly unfocused pupils regained their clarity, and the relevant memories surfaced in his mind.
Shen Lian, the original owner's childhood sweetheart.
But unlike the Childhood Sweethearts in anime who secretly carried a torch for the protagonist.
This Shen Lian not only frequently belittled the original owner and elevated herself in daily life, but also loved subjecting him to all sorts of brainwashing lessons.
In short, she was a high-martial version of a PUA expert...
At that thought, Ye Li frowned slightly.
Damn it.
What kind of damned matchmaking system had given him a childhood sweetheart like this?
"Ye Li, I'm talking to you!"
Seeing that he remained silent, Shen Lian, standing by the door, furrowed her brows. The impatience on her face grew thicker as she said coldly:
"Wang Ren is a substitute on the School Team. His martial cultivation is First-Tier Level Five. You only reached First-Tier Level Three two days ago—what do you have to fight him with?
"I'm telling you to forfeit for your own good, understand?!"
"So what?" Sharp pains throbbed through his head, and Ye Li rubbed his temples in pain.
According to his memories, Linhai First High School was holding a school-level Guidance Match today, with School Team members fighting actual battles against ordinary students who had signed up.
The special thing was that, regardless of victory or defeat, both sides in the Guidance Match could receive generous medicinal subsidies.
The original owner had managed to grab one of the few available slots. It should have been a good thing.
Yet unexpectedly, he had been matched with Shen Lian's boyfriend, Wang Ren.
The rules of the Guidance Match specifically stated that if one side forfeited, the other side would receive double the medicinal subsidy.
Moreover, it would affect their future academic records.
This was also meant to stop ordinary students from turning into lizards that quailed before battle.
After all, if a martial artist feared even a competition, how could they face the terrifying mutant beasts eyeing humanity in the future?
Shen Lian had come here at this critical moment to tell Ye Li to forfeit. Clearly, she had not taken his future seriously at all.
How disgusting!
Ye Li's frown deepened.
"So what? So hurry up and forfeit!"
When Ye Li still refused to hand over his competitor's token, Shen Lian felt anxious and puzzled at the same time.
Normally, a single sentence from her would have been enough to make this tool obediently do as she said.
What was wrong with him today?
"I'll say it one more time. Wang Ren needs medicinal herbs to break through soon, so let him use your subsidy first!"
Shen Lian's face darkened completely. She stretched a hand straight toward Ye Li and urged him with a frown:
"Your competitor's token. Give it to me, now!"
"Idiot."
Ye Li sneered and slapped away Shen Lian's outstretched hand.
The original owner had been willing to obey Shen Lian's every word—that was the original owner's business.
But Ye Li was a normal person. How could he possibly put up with this crap?
At the same time, an illusory screen suddenly appeared before Ye Li's eyes.
[Ding!] [Detected that you have viciously insulted the childhood sweetheart you secretly loved for more than ten years! Malice Points +500!] [Malice System loaded successfully!] [In a high-martial world, the strong must ruthlessly humiliate the weak!] [Commit acts of malice recognized by the system to obtain corresponding Malice Points!] [Current martial skills] [Flowing Water Fist Technique: Mastery (78%)] [Cloud-Breaking Spear Technique: Beginner (36%)] [Current Malice Points: 500] [You may inject Malice Points into relevant entries to increase their corresponding progress.] [Review: Almost no one knows of your infamous reputation.]
Huh?!
Ye Li was stunned at first, then a glimmer of spirit rose in his eyes.
Was this... his Golden Finger?
"Id-idiot?!"
Shen Lian's astonished voice rang through the waiting room upon hearing Ye Li's words.
Disbelief appeared on her pretty face. After coming back to her senses, she flew into a rage from shame and said:
"You've got some nerve, Ye Li! I'm telling you, I don't have time to waste with you right now! Hand over the competitor's token, now!
"Otherwise, don't blame me if I ignore you for the rest of my life!"
Wonderful. Double happiness had arrived at his door.
Ye Li casually dismissed the panel and said with a light laugh:
"A worn-out shoe thinks she can decide my victory or defeat? Is your brain filled with crap?"
[You have viciously insulted the childhood sweetheart you secretly loved for ten years. Malice Points +300!]
"...?"
Shen Lian stood rooted to the spot, utterly dumbfounded.
She had never expected Ye Li's attitude to be so vile that it gave her a surreal feeling.
Worn-out shoe?
He actually dared to call me a worn-out shoe?!
Shen Lian stared at Ye Li in disbelief, her lips trembling slightly as she shouted:
"Y-you... you dared to insult me?!"
"I'm insulting you, you idiot." Ye Li frowned faintly and said indifferently:
"I'll be taking the stage soon to beat your boyfriend flat on the ground.
"As for you, turn left when you go out and get your brain checked at Linhai Hospital!"
[You have viciously insulted the childhood sweetheart you secretly loved for ten years. Malice Points +200!]
"I'm not sick!"
Shen Lian was enraged by Ye Li's teasing gaze, as though he were looking at an idiot.
Her face reddened until it seemed about to drip blood, and her chest heaved violently.
She stared at Ye Li for a full two or three seconds.
Then she took a deep breath and gradually calmed down, her voice turning cold and sinister.
"Keep talking tough, then.
"As long as you dare take the stage, Wang Ren will definitely beat you until you doubt your entire life!"
Her words brimmed with threat.
With that, she turned and walked out of the waiting room.
On her way to the spectator stands, the more she thought about it, the angrier she became, grinding her back teeth together.
Damn it—
"A stuffy gourd with barely any friends—doesn't he know I've always taken such good care of him?"
"What an ungrateful bastard!"
"He wants to defeat my boyfriend? That's hilarious. It'd be more likely for him to get beaten into a cripple!"
Inside the waiting room.
Ye Li withdrew his gaze from where Shen Lian had left, silently took out his phone, and swiftly blocked every means of contacting her.
For a brain-dead idiot whose cerebrum had not fully developed and whose cerebellum had not developed at all, he chose to keep his distance.
Afterward, he summoned the system panel, his gaze falling upon it.
[Current Malice Points: 1000]
That was what he had gained from humiliating Shen Lian just now.
The system's standards for judging malicious acts seemed rather strict.
The reason he had gained so many Malice Points was likely because the original owner had secretly loved Shen Lian for ten years and poured an enormous amount of effort into it.
Thus, just a few short sentences had shattered Shen Lian's defenses.
All he could say was that the shot the original owner had fired in childhood had struck right between his own brows today.
Less than five minutes remained before he took the stage.
Ye Li's eyes flickered.
According to his memories, there was a vast gap in strength between Wang Ren and him.
Before figuring out the precise value of Malice Points, the correct thing to do was conserve them first to avoid wasting them.
Therefore, the best approach in this Guidance Match was to hold out for a few exchanges, then admit defeat.
He would receive medicinal subsidies even if he lost, anyway.
Judging from his memories, that had been the original owner's plan as well.
But...
The moment he thought of Shen Lian's attitude, Ye Li felt a nameless fire burning in his heart.
He was not the original owner.
From the bottom of his heart, he despised people like Shen Lian and Wang Ren.
If he lost here, then no matter how he comforted himself afterward, Ye Li would still feel sickened by it.
He had spent his previous life watching the faces of those dogshit leaders. After transmigrating, was he supposed to keep groveling and cowering?
What a joke!
All I know is that I'm about to go on a killing spree!
Ye Li gave a ferocious grin and swept one hand through the air. A pale blue screen rapidly unfolded before him.
"Tolerance is the virtue of mortals; cowardice is the gambler's greatest taboo."
"System, I'm going all in!"
Buzz!!
As Malice Points were rapidly consumed, the progress numbers of the two martial skills began to leap wildly!
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