Half-Hour Goddess

Ye Ze has lived to this age only to suddenly face two worldview-shattering revelations: 1. He obtains a system that tasks him with protecting the world, granting him superpowers straight out of a video game. But every time he unleashes a powerful move to vanquish evil, he transforms into the flawless image of a holy maiden for half an hour, earning the adoration of the masses. 2. My childhood friend has impeccable morals, exemplary academic records, was admitted to a top-tier university via math Olympiad, and has a thorough grasp of Marxist materialism… I’ve known him for seventeen years—how could he possibly not be human? A masterfully deceptive childhood friend (top) vs. a hapless transformed (bottom) plagued by mishaps yet devoted to protecting him. Notes: 1. The Moon Spirit Temple priestess’s skillset is inspired by the transformation ability of the female Dragon Witch characters in the MMORPG **"Tianxia 3."** 2. The protagonist’s transformed state has an overpowered "Mary Sue" trait (melodramatic and trope-heavy). At its core, this is a simple, old-fashioned story of "When the whole world loves you for your other face, only I’ve loved you faithfully all along"—except one half of the childhood pair has superpowers, and the other isn’t human…