Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

The Premise

A broke math major gets a “high tech system” after fainting in a mascot costume. Lu Zhou is a freshman at Jin Ling University who spent his summer in 30-degree heat wearing a puppet suit for 70 yuan an hour, and he collapses from heat stroke. He wakes up in a white void where a system tells him math is the father of every science, then hands him a panel full of zeros and a list of missions. Here’s the catch: the system scores books by how useful they are to him personally, so the beginner texts are worth way more than the fancy advanced ones.

The Protagonist & Stakes

Lu Zhou comes from a family that can’t afford much, with a sick mom, a little sister headed to university, and a dad who wants him to get a doctorate he knows he can’t pay for. So he’s been handing out flyers and delivering food instead of studying. Once he picks the library mission, he reads for two days straight in a state of total focus, then starts solving problems that even his competitive genius roommate Liu Rui can’t crack. Then he spends general points to have the system solve a research problem so he can write a thesis, and he still can’t fully understand the answer it gives him. He also keeps forgetting to tell Chen Yushan, a master’s student who thinks he’s a PhD, that he’s just a freshman.

Why Read This

• Broke-student-to-genius fantasy: Watching a guy who was working for pocket money suddenly outsolve the class genius, and get worshipped by someone way older, is pure underdog satisfaction.
• Science tech tree and lucky draws: The system runs on skill levels, mission rewards and prize wheels, and Lu Zhou’s first pulls are a can of coke that appears from nowhere and a blueprint for an unproven Mersenne prime formula.

“In the eyes of a true genius, everyone else was trash.”