Starting with Hell

Parallel World

In this world, when certain attributes reach a certain level, one awakens a supernatural ability that is both rational and irrational.

In a certain United States

At a certain dojo

"Is this new student here to visit the dojo?"

"I know him! He's the confession maniac who became famous just days after enrolling!"

"What!? He's the new student who confessed to the daughter of the High Court judge right after school started?"

"Not just that, yesterday he even confessed to the daughter of the British diplomat."

Inside the dojo, several young men looked at a figure outside the door, their faces showing surprised expressions as they discussed.

"Did the confession succeed?"

"It definitely failed. He was even publicly humiliated by the diplomat's daughter yesterday."

"That's so embarrassing. So why did he come to our club today..."

"Could it be..."

As one of the young men was speaking, he noticed something from the corner of his eye. His expression suddenly changed and he didn't dare say another word. Seeing his reaction, the other three also realized something and their faces were filled with terrified expressions, as if they had seen something horrifying.

With a creaking sound, the door opened and a young woman wearing kyudo attire walked out of the changing room.

The young woman had long black hair cascading over her shoulders like a waterfall. Her face carried a cold and stern aura, and her eyes were like dead water without any vitality, making people feel intimidated just by looking at her.

As the young woman slowly walked towards the front door, each step seemed to tread on everyone's hearts. Their heartbeats quickened and they had difficulty breathing. For a moment, they even forgot how to react.

Even the so-called "confession maniac" at the door was no exception. At this moment, his entire body was stiff and drenched in sweat. Large beads of sweat kept falling from his forehead, and he looked at the young woman with an expression as if he had seen a ghost.

The young woman slowly walked up to the figure at the door and stopped. Her face showed no ripples of emotion, but a chilling aura permeated around her.

Seeing this, the few young men in the kyudo club unconsciously turned their heads away, not daring to get involved. After all, they knew about the young woman's abilities.

"You're very uneasy now. Relax a bit."

Ji Qingyi scanned Su Cheng with a contemptuous gaze, her tone flat but irresistible.

"What's going on..."

Su Cheng looked at the beautiful young woman before him. The look in her eyes, as if she was looking at a dead person, involuntarily made him feel a bit afraid. He forced himself to calm down, while frantically complaining in his heart: "This is definitely above A-level difficulty, absolutely!"

"State your purpose."

Ji Qingyi still showed no expression, but the coldness in her words made him feel an enormous pressure.

At this point, he could only steel himself and go through with it. He took a deep breath, suppressed the fear in his heart, tried his best to calm himself down, and slowly raised his head to look at Ji Qingyi.

"I like you. Can I be your boyfriend?"

As soon as Su Cheng's words fell, the entire club went silent.

Dead silence, so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

"What an ignorant and fearless child. You have no value to me."

Ji Qingyi's cold gaze fell on him, enunciating each word clearly. Her words were like a chilling wind cutting to the bone, making him shiver.

"Phew~"

Hearing this, Su Cheng immediately let out a sigh of relief, then quickly suppressed his inner emotions and immediately bowed to apologize.

"I'm sorry, I was being abrupt."

After saying this, he pretended to look dejected and turned to leave.

"Unease... expectation... surprise... excitement... anticipation."

Ji Qingyi captured his emotional changes from Su Cheng's behavior, then looked at his retreating figure with slightly furrowed brows.

"Young miss, your current heart rate frequency is a bit high."

A black-haired young woman who had appeared by the door at some point reported expressionlessly while looking at the heart rate report on her phone.

Hearing this, she looked down at her chest and found that it was indeed beating slightly faster than usual. She hadn't expected that a commoner boy could cause her emotions to change.

"Who sent him?"

"So far, we haven't found any close relationships between him and any students at the school."

The black-haired young woman answered, then took out a pile of files and said: "These are the profiles of this year's new students. Not only did we mobilize people from the group for these new student profiles, but we even activated external investigators. It's very difficult to deal with."

"What's the reason?"

"Su Cheng."

"Read it."

She said concisely and clearly.

"Yes."

The black-haired young woman nodded and started reading: "Su Cheng, lost both parents in a car accident as a child, later taken in by an orphanage and sent to a certain school. His grades have always been average. He dated one girlfriend, but she left without saying goodbye before even a week had passed."

At this point, she turned to the next page and continued: "Because of this, he attempted suicide by jumping into a river but was saved. Since then, his personality has undergone a drastic change. His learning aptitude greatly improved and he became very hardworking, eventually getting into our school. Especially in the past few days, his performance has been astonishing, with rumors spreading in the school that he is a 'confession maniac'."

Ji Qingyi closed her eyes briefly to ponder, then opened them and slowly said: "It seems the problem lies with this ex-girlfriend of his."

"Yes."

The black-haired young woman handed the documents to her.

Ji Qingyi took them and started reading. However, her pupils suddenly constricted the next second, and her originally calm expression showed a hint of shock.

"Interesting."

"His experience is like that of a male protagonist in a web novel."

"Web novel protagonist?"

Hearing this unfamiliar term, Ji Qingyi frowned slightly.

"What's more interesting is that the status of his confession targets has been gradually increasing, just like leveling up in a game."

The black-haired young woman closed the file and said: "If nothing unexpected happens, his target this time should not be the young miss."

As she spoke, her gaze turned towards a female student in the kyudo club who was currently shooting.

This girl's family was the 'Yida' Group, ranked seventh among the top ten real estate companies.

Ji Qingyi followed the black-haired young woman's gaze and saw that the girl was practicing. Her posture looked quite skilled, very professional. She couldn't help but ask curiously: "Wang Shichong?"

"Yes, I've been observing his facial expressions. It seems that every time he gets rejected, he achieves some kind of goal. Just now, he was just using you as an NPC to grind."

"What's an NPC?"

Hearing this, Ji Qingyi's face flashed with curiosity again. This term was new to her, and she found it quite fresh.

"A tool character. I deduce that after being rejected by you, he will gain some benefit."

The black-haired young woman answered.

"Using me as a tool... and there's a reward?"

Hearing this, Ji Qingyi's face showed confusion, clearly still not quite understanding the meaning of the black-haired young woman's words.

The black-haired young woman looked at Ji Qingyi and suggested: "Do you want these two to meet?"

"Record her expression at that time."

"Yes."

"By the way, don't look at strange things in your spare time."

"Yes..."

"Go on then."

.....................

"Damn it, why!?"

Outside the school gate, Su Cheng was hiding in a corner, his expression even more unpleasant than if he had eaten excrement as he looked ahead, his mood extremely foul as he cursed.

In front of him was a system prompt window that only he could see, displaying a character information sheet.

[Rejection Reward System]

(Can confess once per day)

[Target: Ji Qingyi]

[Intelligence: 9]

[Charm: 9]

[Stamina: 8]

[Status: Young miss of the "Six Sun Group", one of the three major financial groups in Flame Country.]

[System Description: Born into a noble family, excellent in academics, perfect in arts, music, martial arts, and tea ceremony. An all-round genius who doesn't show emotions easily. Absolute egoist.]

[Danger Level: S]

[No dating record, can choose to confess]

[Can get 1 reward for being rejected, A-level and above can get 1 lottery chance for each daily rejection afterwards]

"It's actually S-level..."

Su Cheng looked at the prompt on the panel, feeling a chill in his heart, almost cursing out loud.

He was actually a transmigrator,

It had been three years since he crossed over to this parallel world. In this world, his counterpart was just entering adolescence, and like in his previous life, he was an orphan. Crucially, he had no memories of this world.

At first, upon realizing he had no special abilities, he studied desperately to secure one of the ten annual 'special admission' spots to this international private school.

This school was an unattainable utopia for ordinary people. Here, 99% of the students were from prominent families or wealthy backgrounds, and it was where future leaders who would shoulder national responsibilities studied.

For students from ordinary families, successfully entering this school was not just a status symbol, but a golden ticket to change their fate.

However, unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived at this school and encountered a young girl, a system prompt suddenly exploded in his mind.

He finally understood that he wasn't without a special ability; he just hadn't encountered the right character to awaken the system.

And in this school, there were hundreds of characters he could confess to.

In short, for him, this place was practically heaven.

The danger levels for confessions were divided into five grades:

D—C—B—A—S.

Among these, D and C were dangerous.

He had already tried them according to the system's instructions. The former resulted in a polite rejection, while the latter led to a somewhat insulting rejection.

D rewarded 10,000 Flame Currency.

C rewarded 100,000 Flame Currency.

Normally, today was supposed to be B difficulty, but he had been tricked by the system into encountering an S level. One can imagine how awful he felt now.

In this school with a severe class system, full of rich people and children of the powerful, it would be effortless for someone to harbor murderous intentions towards him. The other party could even exile him from both legal and illegal circles or the business world with just a word.

"Damn it, damn it!"

Thinking of this, a chill ran through him, making him shudder involuntarily.

"Regardless of the reason, the most important thing now is to protect myself."

"That's right, the S-level reward!"

At this thought, Su Cheng's eyes lit up, as this could very well be the key to breaking the deadlock.

[Random item reward has been distributed to the system space, please check]

"What is it..."

Su Cheng took a deep breath, then entered the space with his consciousness to check the item given by the system.

It's worth mentioning that this system space came with the awakening of the system. It was incredibly vast, and anything except living things could be stuffed inside.

He could put items in just by touching them and willing it with his mind.

Taking items out worked the same way; he just had to think about the item, and it would appear in his hand out of thin air.

"Cigarettes...?"

Su Cheng looked at the red pack of Huazi Cigarettes in his hand with a bewildered expression. He hadn't expected the system to give him a pack of hard Huazi Cigarettes.

"I don't smoke, why are you giving me cigarettes?"

"No, even if I did smoke, you shouldn't be so perfunctory as to give me a 45 yuan pack of cigarettes!"

"What era is this? Still smoking traditional cigarettes, if you're going to smoke, at least smoke YueKe 5!"

Su Cheng looked at the pack of cigarettes in his hand, filled with anger, and then threw it hard on the ground.

[Ding——]

[Face-Saving Cigarettes]

[Effect: Thought and Logic Control]

[System: Each time you offer someone a cigarette, when you say 'Give me face', the other person will unconditionally give you face.]

"Traditional cigarettes are the best! I'll always love traditional cigarettes!"

Su Cheng carefully picked up the Face-Saving Cigarettes from the ground, then dusted off the packaging, treating it as meticulously as he would his Taobao wife.