Supreme Cheat

The protagonist, Lu Feiyang, is an ordinary third-year university student of modest background and unremarkable looks—so unremarkable that even a tutoring gig turns him down because he holds only a Level 2 English certificate. Then an accident changes everything: he swallows a strange "blood-sucking pearl," and the world in his eyes is transformed. Real life becomes an online game with exactly one player—him. Friends, family, classmates, and passersby all become NPCs, and he alone is the only player on Earth.

As a "player," Lu Feiyang gains an immortal body—deadly poison costs him only a bit of stamina, and a bowl of ramen restores his health. He can level up by "scoring" on exams, earns quest credit for accompanying someone on a shopping trip, and acquires skills directly from reading books. Equipment like a paralysis ring and protective amulets make him look to others like a hidden master, a charge skill lets him phase straight through walls, and his inventory slot turns him into the most amazing magician. And so a string of campus daily life, court battles, quest adventures, and romantic entanglements all become absurd and lively through the filter of "gamification."

Told in a light, humorous style, the book follows the protagonist's growth from campus into a wider world, with brisk pacing and abundant cheat powers. It is one of the representative early works of the "system flow / gamified reality" genre and is best read as a stress-relieving power fantasy.