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You is the protagonist in “How to Transform an Everyday, Ordinary Hoop Court into a Place of Higher Learning and You at the Podium.” He is a skilled, dedicated, and determined basketball player.

Lingsi is the protagonist and narrator of “The Difficult Path.” Once a servant to a powerful family in Imperial Chinaahe becomesa member of the Red Flag Fleet of pirates after being given reading lessons.

Merci is the protagonist and narrator of “Sol Painting, Inc.” She is described as a stubborn girl, who struggles in school due to her imaginative and flighty nature. Merci is jealous of her brother’s intelligence, and she has dreams of eventually taking over her father’s painting company.