Reborn as a high school freshman with an awakened system, a fat boy transforms into a male god.

morning.

The first lesson was math.

Lin Bei attended class as usual.

He sat in the last row by the window, looking at the dense writing on the blackboard, and suddenly felt that something was missing from his field of vision.

He stared at the back of Su Wantang's head for a few seconds.

There are no more numbers.

Above her head, in the void, once hung a constantly ticking countdown, from 8 hours to half an hour, then to 36 days, then from 36 days to 6 days, and now to 65 years. Those numbers were like a sword hanging over her head, and also like a lock hanging over his heart.

The lock is now open, but the sword is gone.

He couldn't quite tell whether he felt relieved or a little uneasy.

The "life countdown" was gone; he could no longer see that number. He could only rely on his own eyes to judge whether she was alright. He would look at whether the dark circles under her eyes were getting deeper or lighter, whether she was eating more or less, and whether her smile extended to her eyes or was just a fleeting expression on her face.

[Superpowers have expired: Life countdown begins]

[Validity period: 7 days]

[Number of uses: 23]

[The host saved Su Wantang's life with this ability. Although the system didn't expect you to use it in any fancy way when it gave you this ability, you used it quite well. You made the system proud.]

Lin Bei silently replied in his heart: Thank you.

[You're welcome. The system rarely receives thanks from its host, so it has decided to take a screenshot. Screenshot format: text version. Save location: the "Host Occasionally Said Something Human" folder in system memory. It will be placed together with the last one.]

At lunchtime, as usual, Lin Bei took out his insulated bag and walked to Su Wantang's seat.

"What's today?" Su Wantang glanced at the food container.

"Stir-fried green peppers with shredded pork, stir-fried broccoli, and rice." Lin Bei opened the lunchbox. "My mom said the green peppers aren't spicy, so you can eat without worry."

Su Wantang picked up her chopsticks, took a piece of broccoli, put it in her mouth, and chewed it a couple of times.

"Is it tasty?"

"Um."

They ate their meal quietly.

Halfway through the meal, Su Wantang suddenly looked up.

"Lin Bei, did you memorize the vocabulary words from yesterday?"

"I memorized it."

"How much did you memorize?"

"I've memorized the entire first unit."

Su Wantang was taken aback. "Memorized them all? All thirty?"

"Not only that. I've memorized all the vocabulary from Unit 1 to Unit 3." Lin Bei pulled his English textbook out of his bag, flipped to the vocabulary list, and asked, "Are you going to check my work?"

Su Wantang took the textbook, flipped through it casually, and wrote, "abandon."

"give up."

"ability".

"ability."

"absent".

"Absent".

Su Wantang asked more than a dozen questions in a row, and Lin Bei answered each one correctly.

She closed her textbook, looked at Lin Bei, and asked, "How did you do that?"

Lin Bei thought for a moment, "My memory has improved recently."

He wasn't lying. She wouldn't believe him even if he told her about the memory palace. And he didn't want to lie to her, but he also didn't want to explain. So, saying his "memory had improved" was a compromise—he told the truth, but not the whole truth.

The host's strategy of "telling the truth but not the whole truth" is an advanced social skill. It avoids lying while protecting privacy. It is recommended that the host use the same strategy when encountering questions like "How do you feel about me?". For example, "You're great" is the truth, and "You're great, but I'm not good enough for you" is also the truth. However, the system doesn't care which option the host chooses. The system only provides the strategy and does not bear the consequences.

Su Wantang looked at him but didn't ask any further questions. She lowered her head and continued eating, but Lin Bei noticed that she was picking up food faster than before.

[Su Wantang's "micro-expressions" showed that when she heard the host recite all the words, the curve of her lips widened by about 15% compared to usual. This curve was marked in the system database as "a little surprised but not wanting to show it."]

Lin Bei ignored the system and continued eating.

Just then, the seven-day validity period of the "mind-reading" superpower also expired.

In the afternoon, math class covered functions, English class covered relative clauses, and physics class covered free fall. Lin Bei listened attentively; his 70-point IQ combined with his memory palace technique allowed him to grasp these concepts much faster than in his previous life.

When the school bell rang, Lin Bei, as usual, drove his electric scooter home with Su Wantang.

Evenings in early September are still long, and the setting sun paints the entire sycamore-lined avenue orange-red.

"Lin Bei, my dad called today."

Lin Bei's fingers tightened on the handlebars. "What do you mean?"

"There's been progress with the police. Zhang Mingqiang and Li Dong have provided additional materials, and with my father's testimony, the case has been officially filed." Su Wantang's voice was calm. "My father said that Zhao Yumei has been called in for questioning."

Lin Bei remained silent for a moment.

The case has been filed. This means that Zhao Yumei's matter is no longer a "family dispute," but a "criminal case." Su Yuan finally took that step, not because he was brave, but because he had to face it. When a father realizes he almost pushed his daughter off a cliff, all he can do is turn around and face the person who pushed him.

"How is your dad?" Lin Bei asked.

"It's not good. But he said he'd handle it."

Lin Bei didn't ask any more questions. It was understandable that things weren't going well. How could an adult who almost ruined his daughter's life be considered good? But Lin Bei didn't say it aloud. Some things didn't need to be said; Su Wantang herself knew the answer.

The electric scooter pulled up to the building, Lin Bei parked it, and Su Wantang jumped off the back seat. They went upstairs together; she went into apartment 502, and he went into apartment 501.

After finishing his meal and washing the dishes, Lin Bei sat down at his desk.

I opened my phone and glanced at the novel's backend.

Collections: 7.

The comment section was still empty, but there was now a "recommendation vote"... cast by Zhou Ziheng. The comment on the recommendation vote read "Brother Bei is awesome," followed by three exclamation marks.

Lin Bei's lips curled into a smile. This skinny guy, while saying "we'll support each other," was more proactive than anyone else in his actions. And the word he always used was "awesome," he would never change it. In the first chapter it was "Brother Bei is awesome," in the second chapter it was "Brother Bei is awesome," and in the third chapter it would probably still be "Brother Bei is awesome."

[The system has detected that the host has received the first recommendation vote. It is recommended that the host take a screenshot and save it for display at future fan meetings. Although with the current number of fans (readers roughly equal to the number of favorites minus the author's own), a fan meeting would probably only require a phone booth. But one should still have dreams; what if they come true?]

He opened his memo and continued writing Chapter Three.

He wrote for about an hour and a half, finishing a chapter. It was 2,300 words long, longer than the previous two chapters. He read it through, corrected a few awkward sentences, and then sent it out.

After he finished, he started doing push-ups.

This time, he did it four times before collapsing. He couldn't get up halfway through the fifth one, but he held on for ten seconds before finally collapsing.

The host's push-up count has improved from "three in a set" to "four in a set," a 33.3% increase. While the initial number is still low, the trend is positive.

Lin Bei lay on the ground catching his breath for a few moments, then rolled over and lay on his back.

The "Seven-Day Transformation" mission is over in seven days.

[Task progress: 2.6/2.5kg]

[Congratulations, host! The weight loss mission is complete!]

[Task Evaluation: Excellent. The host not only completed the 2.5 kg target but also exceeded it by 0.1 kg. This demonstrates that the host's willpower is stronger than the system anticipated. The system retracts its previous assessment that the host "writhed like a maggot" and changes it to "scrambled like a snail." Although still slow, at least a snail has a shell, making it look more respectable than a maggot.]

[Rewards: +5 Attribute Points, 10,000 RMB, Superpower "Crisis Foresight" (Valid for 7 days)]

[The cash has been transferred to the host's linked account. Please check.]

[Attribute points have been credited and can be allocated in the attribute panel at any time.]