[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-no-money-what-cultivation":3,"chapter-no-money-what-cultivation-no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-553":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","No Money, What Cultivation?",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},164422,323,"Chapter 553","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-553",553,"\u003Cp>This is Baobiao, a freshman in the Security Department at a vocational college.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a vocational-college student, Baobiao seemed to carry a confidence before the camera crew that set him apart from other vocational students.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the shoot, he insisted the crew call him a \"university student.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Whether by law or by school regulations, vocational-college students are a type of university student.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You know? We can call ourselves university students—even the Heavenly Court allows it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My dream? To work for a company with good benefits.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"At the very least, that company should have bottled water, a spirit-world data allowance, the option to work 24-hour overtime, and free potions so I don't have to sleep.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I want to be able to walk around freely at work, and ideally have a bathroom provided so I can save on renovation costs.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know it's not easy to find a job where I can drink clean water, use a toilet, and never sleep—lots of people say my standards are too high… but I'm a university student after all, not a secondary-school grad or a technical-school grad. I think we university students should have some ambitions.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To find his dream job, Baobiao trained hard every day on campus, even signing up for the Foundation Establishment exam in his first year of college.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though he didn't pass the exam, Baobiao was full of confidence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the director asked him about it, Baobiao said he felt he just hadn't prepared enough in the first year, and that he still had a chance to get his Foundation Establishment certificate in the remaining years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A month later, when the camera crew saw Baobiao again, the once-spirited vocational student was now dejected and disheartened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I've been sleeping for seven whole days straight.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On camera, the \"university student\" kept complaining to the crew, repeatedly suspecting that a nearby pharmaceutical factory was contaminating the school's water supply, making students fall asleep more easily so they would buy more potions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when the topic turned to his coursework, Baobiao still seemed excited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Last exam, I took down a tenant in three seconds, kicked out a delivery guy in five, and could escape unharmed from a thug in half a second.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The teacher said I'm like I've already done security work for ten years.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A month later, when the camera crew visited Baobiao's dorm again, his roommate told them Baobiao was gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Gone? What do you mean?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He bumped into a senior student who's an upper-rank officer, scratched her magic artifact, got caught, and was refined into a living soul…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crew was frustrated by Baobiao's disappearance, but they understood that vocational students were like this: one collision with an upper-rank student, one company error, one school oversight, or a single stock price fluctuation could cause a vocational student to live and die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crew had to stop following Baobiao and started recording the next vocational student.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yu withdrew his gaze and looked at the title of this script: *One Hundred Ways for a Vocational Student to Die*.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is this really a documentary?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking about having to simulate hundreds of deaths for vocational students, Zhang Yu hesitated: \"That's kind of masochistic.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He shifted his eyes to the next simulation script.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, there was not only a written description but also some video clips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The protagonist was a vocational student majoring in logistics management…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the three years of high school, the family only had enough money for one person to take cram classes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Between his older brother and A-Ming, his father chose the brother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without money for tutoring, A-Ming's grades plummeted in high school, landing him at the bottom of the social ladder. He had to eat in the bathroom, kneel during class, and have his homework stolen—he suffered every humiliation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the college entrance exam, A-Ming left home with his vocational-college acceptance letter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On his way out, his father looked at him with a complicated expression: \"A-Ming…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A-Ming is going to a vocational college! You chose this, Dad!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do you have any idea what those three years of high school were like for me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He walked away without looking back, telling himself over and over that he would upgrade from vocational to a bachelor's degree, get into a regular university, find a better job than his brother, and prove that his father had chosen the wrong person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On his way to school, A-Ming remembered every person's changed expression when they learned he was a vocational student, remembered the passages vocational students couldn't use, the areas they couldn't enter, the warnings only vocational students could see, and remembered that vocational students and university students couldn't ride the same flying boat…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He committed each and every one of these humiliations deeply to his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He told himself over and over that going to college wasn't shameful—only going to a technical secondary school was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He told himself that everyone at college had earned their place through their own ability, with the college entrance exam being the only path in—unlike universities, where there were plenty of backdoors and all sorts of shady methods to get in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During his eight years at college, he surpassed one opponent after another who had been ranked above him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every single one of these college students was so hardworking, each one continuously taking out loans, each one up to their ears in debt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As A Ming surpassed them one by one, sometimes he couldn't even tell them apart, as if they were all stamped from the same mold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And every time he surpassed one of them, he would always find countless more similar college students above that person's head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was like a road with no end, where no matter how hard A Ming ran, he could never see the finish line.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even by the year of graduation, A Ming still hadn't succeeded in upgrading from junior college to an undergraduate program.\u003C\u002Fp>",984,"2026-05-29T04:54:59.518Z","2026-06-01T04:29:12.818Z",1,"deepseek-v4-flash","ad29ff6716db48f6e3b7bd309f1b578e5be01b30f974ff04bc860f28bbd2488b","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-554","no-money-what-cultivation-chapter-552",711,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fno-money-what-cultivation-cover.jpg"]