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Chapter 38 - Chapter 38: Rich Second Generation Start

[Medical Mastery (Green): You are highly skilled in medicine, proficient in various medical knowledge, with deep understanding and unique insights into disease diagnosis and treatment, able to provide precise and comprehensive treatment plans for patients.]

[Silver-Tongued (Green): Your lies are more easily believed by others.]

[Lewd Aura (Blue): Your lewd aura completely drags down your attractiveness. On the subway, even the ugliest little fairy could confidently shout 'Pervert!' in front of you, and even if your hands are on the handrails and you're half a car away, people would suspect you.]

[Immense Wealth (Blue): Your superpower is being rich; your family fortune is enough for you to enjoy for several lifetimes (by Xianzhou lifespan standards).]

[Fat-Headed and Big-Eared (Green): Your height equals your width; the massive fat can cushion damage you receive, but it's useless anyway.]

Seth nodded in satisfaction; the traits drawn this time were all pretty good quality—it was like hitting the jackpot.

Especially the only gold trait, which looked extraordinary at a glance.

Unfortunately, this trait was like a display item in a luxury store—you could look and touch, but not afford it.

As for the remaining trait, Seth ultimately chose 'Immense Wealth (Blue)'.

He was currently broke as hell; if Jingliu and Feixiao came to Luofu to kill him, he wouldn't even have enough credits to buy a ship ticket to escape.

Soon, the simulation began.

[Age 0: You were born into a top-tier merchant family on the Luofu Xianzhou.]

[Age 1: During your first birthday grab-and-pick ceremony, you grabbed the abacus.]

[Your father beamed with joy. Your family has considerable assets, and your father hopes you'll inherit the family business one day, taking the family wealth to new heights.]

[It's said that several districts in Aurum Alley and Exalting Sanctum belong to your family. Your family holds shares in all seven major guilds under the Sky-Faring Commission. Your family's total assets rank high on the Luofu Xianzhou rich list.]

Because that gold benefit trait affected personal strength, it turned into the blue 'Immense Wealth' influencing his family background.

A rich second-generation start wasn't bad; it was like playing a real-life version of Monopoly.

Seth had just thought that when he was immediately slapped in the face.

[Age 2: Your father hired a bunch of private tutors, hoping you'd become talented early.]

[Ages 3, 4...16: You spent a childhood that wasn't exactly wonderful.]

[To make you capable of inheriting the family business early, your father desperately trained you from a young age. While other kids played, you could only stay home listening to tutors lecture.]

[However, facts proved you had no talent for business. Through accumulation over time, you learned a lot of business-related knowledge, but that was it.]

[You lacked the flashes of genius insight of a business prodigy, and you didn't have a genius-level sharp mind. At your level, just guarding the family assets would be your limit.]

[Your father clearly understood a principle: It's better to let descendants indulge in wine, women, and song than to let untalented ones blindly start businesses.]

How does that saying go? Not afraid of the young master being extravagant, but afraid of the young master wanting to prove himself.

[So he directly lowered his expectations for you.]

[Although he lowered his expectations, he hadn't completely given up. So he went through great lengths, using his connections, to find you a fiancée.]

[Your fiancée is from the Foxian race, quite a bit older than you, but her near-perfect business resume earned your father's approval.]

[She is none other than Miss Tingyun, the chief representative of the Whistling Flames Guild under the Sky-Faring Commission, renowned for her clever mind, eloquent tongue, and debating skills.]

[Miss Tingyun has a business acumen and talent rivaling company executives, repeatedly achieving great feats for the Whistling Flames Guild, even once surpassing the other six guilds to become the top-ranked under the Sky-Faring Commission.]

The Sky-Faring Commission is one of the Xianzhou Six Commissions, and the seven largest guilds all belong to it, so Whistling Flames Guild is like a state-owned enterprise.

No wonder when Seth played Honkai: Star Rail, he always felt something off—Miss Tingyun and the other Whistling Flames Guild employees didn't seem like fiercely competitive peers; they were more like colleagues with competitive relations. They were all just workers, so why compete so hard?

[Under the arrangements of both families, you met with Tingyun. Both families were very satisfied, and Miss Tingyun didn't object.]

[Miss Tingyun, proficient in business operations, knew you were almost the best choice for her husband. Your family is a shareholder in one of the seven major guilds, and she's a high executive in Whistling Flames Guild—a marriage between you is a strong alliance, common among big families.]

[Moreover, you are handsome with no bad habits, making you a top-tier choice as a husband.]

[Only your attitude was lukewarm, seeming indifferent. Back home, your father gave you a thorough scolding.]

[You didn't care. Miss Tingyun is indeed very beautiful, with a gentle personality—the perfect wife model.]

[But her abilities are too strong. It's foreseeable that your father would gradually hand over the family business to her.]

[Even if she didn't intend it, it would become a fait accompli.]

[It's not necessarily bad—letting Miss Tingyun manage the family business would make things easier and more enjoyable for you. It's just that the pressure overhead would be greater.]

[This is probably a common flaw in bad men.]

[No wife, and you complain about no one sharing the pressure; have a wife, and you blame her for being too capable, putting too much pressure on you.]

[The key is, you didn't really want to get married at this time. After marriage, there'd be an extra layer of constraints, making some things harder to do.]

[Feeling a bit frustrated, you wandered alone in Exalting Sanctum.]

[At that moment, you were drawn by a noisy sound and unconsciously walked over.]

[You saw a lively orange-haired girl performing street arts while live streaming.]

[You watched from the outskirts for a while, found the girl interesting, followed her instructions to follow her streaming account, and learned her name—Guinaifen.]

[Back home, bored, you casually opened that girl's stream.]

[In the stream, the girl was happily greeting viewers while continuing her various bizarre performances.]

[Watching the girl eat noodles while doing a handstand, only for a sneeze to send the noodles shooting out of her nostrils.]

[You burst out laughing— it had been a long time since you'd seen someone so funny.]

[After laughing, you felt much more relaxed and casually tipped 100,000 credits. You also secretly noted the girl's name and began quietly investigating her.]

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