short series

The Day of Awakening: Thorns as Crown

share time: 2026-03-08 12:31:34

Lin Wan, an overworked office worker, died from staying up late to finish a project, only to be reborn on "the day of awakening"—bound to a sarcastic system called "Thorn Crown," which requires her to complete 10 "counterattack missions" with thorns to unlock the qualification for immortal cultivation. Her first mission: deal with a workplace-bullying supervisor—she used tiny thorns to pierce the supervisor's coffee cup, splattering his suit with stains, but unexpectedly got praised for "great creativity." Then she met Gu Shen, a cold immortal cultivator who came to collect the thorns. He intended to snatch the spirit object but was stopped by Lin Wan asking, "Are you a cosplayer? Can you send me the link to your wig?" As Lin Wan solved workplace involution, helped an elderly neighbor get her money back, and dealt with villains amid the system's taunts, she and Gu Shen went from "bickering foes" to "secretly sweet partners." But as missions progressed, Lin Wan discovered that the thorns were actually Gu Shen's natal spirit object, and she was the little fairy who sacrificed herself to save him in a past life… What millennium-old bond lies behind the system's missions?

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