In 2017, in Chengdu, Jiang Cheng was reborn.
Inside the large suite of the Yiheng Hotel, Jiang Cheng looked at the strange woman lying next to him while simultaneously looking at his phone screen.
The wechat message on his phone screen was sent by his current girlfriend, Zhao Jia: "Why aren't you saying anything? You think you're tough now, huh? You're not even afraid when I lose my temper?"
After reading their chat history, memories flooded into his mind. Jiang Cheng gave a sarcastic smile and replied: "Let's break up!"
Zhao Jia was his high school classmate and his first love. Although she was petite and cute, she had one very obvious trait: she was a gold-digger.
As long as there was even a minor holiday, she would insist that Jiang Cheng buy her a gift or send her a red envelope—New Year's Day, Women's Day, Labor Day, Arbor Day, she didn't even spare Army Day.
As soon as Jiang Cheng failed to send her a red envelope, she would throw a tantrum, even condemning Jiang Cheng for not loving her in the name of love, and then threatening to break up.
The former Jiang Cheng naively thought Zhao Jia only cared about celebrating every holiday with him.
He once treasured her like a white moonlight, always available at her beck and call, doing his best to satisfy all her demands.
He missed no opportunity to fawn over her, devotedly simping for her year after year.
Zhao Jia used to always tell him:
"We are still students, we can't hold hands, we can't kiss."
"Give me more time."
"It will be fine once we get to university..."
Just like that, he believed Zhao Jia was truly a pure and innocent girl.
It wasn't until she entered university and set her sights on a Second-generation rich man even wealthier than Jiang Cheng that she decisively dumped him.
From then on, reality gave Jiang Cheng a smiling yet impolite slap across the face.
After breaking up with Zhao Jia in his previous life, Jiang Cheng chose to attend a local university.
After spending several miserable years as a corporate slave, he finally couldn't take it anymore and wanted to return home to inherit his father's business directly.
He didn't expect that after a single sleep, he would suddenly start over again.
Moreover, judging by the situation, the trajectory seemed different from his previous life; at least he didn't remember sleeping with such a beautiful woman before.
Jiang Cheng sighed helplessly.
The most tragic thing in the world is that the person is gone, but the disgusting memories of the previous life remain...
And the key thing was, if he had one more season, maybe he could have reached Challenger rank... Oh, right, before rebirth, he forgot to delete all those 'wife' videos on his computer... He wondered if his previous life's father, Jiang Jianmin, and mother, Li Yan, had seen those videos that would cause his social death... After a long sigh, Jiang Cheng slowly accepted his current situation. After all, rebirth was better than transmigration, and he could use this chance to change some regrets from his previous life, such as the situation with Zhao Jia now.
It was impossible for him to go down the old path again. Jiang Cheng knew that if nothing unexpected happened, Zhao Jia would soon demand a red envelope from him.
Sure enough, Zhao Jia's wechat immediately replied: "???????? Don't you really know why I'm angry? Yesterday was the Summer Solstice!"
Jiang Cheng sneered and replied again.
"Pay attention to the question. I said, let's break up."
Zhao Jia, on the other end of the phone, stared at Jiang Cheng's reply, her sharp eyes widening in disbelief.
They had been together for almost a year. In the past, whenever she got slightly angry and brought up breaking up, Jiang Cheng would immediately rush over, tail wagging, to apologize.
Now he was actually saying he wanted to break up with her?
Zhao Jia, being dumped for the first time, immediately found it unacceptable and called him right away.
"Jiang Cheng, what do you mean?"
"Exactly what the words mean. Can't you read?"
Seeing that Jiang Cheng's voice was completely calm, without a hint of distress, Zhao Jia panicked slightly.
If they really broke up, what would happen to her expenses after she started university?
Thinking this, Zhao Jia immediately felt anxious.
She only wanted Jiang Cheng to send her a red envelope; she didn't actually want to break up.
At this point, she was in an awkward predicament and, though unwilling, softened her tone and asked, "Why are we breaking up?"
"Our personalities are different, and we like different things."
"How are we different? Aren't we a good match?"
Jiang Cheng chuckled: "How are we the same? I like women, you like men. Our values are different."
Hearing Jiang Cheng's explanation, Zhao Jia instantly exploded. What kind of excuse was that? He was clearly mocking her.
Did he think she was an idiot who was easy to fool? Zhao Jia immediately grew furious: "Jiang Cheng, I'm giving you one more chance. Be serious!"
"Zhao Jia, I am serious. Know when to quit and let's end things amicably."
"Fine, you said it yourself. If you want to break up, then break up. Don't you dare regret it." After saying this, Zhao Jia hung up the phone. Although she felt an immediate emptiness inside, as if she had lost something important, she was so used to having Jiang Cheng at her beck and call that she didn't believe he actually dared to break up with her.
Jiang Cheng looked at the disconnected call, sighed in relief, and immediately blocked Zhao Jia's phone number and wechat.
"Congratulations, Host, for activating the Dream Realization Tycoon System!"
Such a good thing actually happened? Was he about to start cheating, gain a golden finger, enter crazy face-slapping mode, exploit every loophole, and reach the pinnacle of life?
Although Jiang Cheng's family background was originally decent, his father ran a small construction company with assets worth tens of millions.
However, since this was only their total assets, his family could only be considered moderately wealthy.
Furthermore, because he had just graduated from high school and had lived at home for the past three years of high school, his mother, Li Yan, only gave him a thousand yuan for living expenses every week.
Jiang Cheng remembered Li Yan telling him that starting next month, once he was in university, she would give him ten thousand yuan a month for living expenses.
At the time, he thought this was already quite a lot.
Unexpectedly, after years of devotion, he didn't receive a single bit of genuine affection, but instead received this immense wealth.
The tycoon system is activating... "The Host receives 0.1 yuan for every second they exist in this world."
[Name: Jiang Cheng.]
[Age: 18.]
[Height: 182.]
[Appearance: 85 points.]
[Level: 1.]
[System Reserve Fund: 0 yuan.]
[System: 0.1/second.]
[Upgrade Experience: 0/100000.]
Jiang Cheng did the math.
At Level 1,
0.1 yuan earned per second amounts to 8,640 yuan per day.
That's 259,200 yuan per month.
He had only been reborn for just over an hour.
And he was already reaching the pinnacle of life just by getting the System?
This was too awesome!
Congratulations, Host, you have received a Novice Gift Package. Would the Host like to open it?
Jiang Cheng silently affirmed.
"Open the Novice Gift Package!"
"Reward: One million-level supercar, a porsche 918."
"Ding dong! Congratulations, Host, you have received a ten million cash reward for novices."
"Five Beginner Shopping Critical Cards. (The maximum spending limit for Beginner Shopping Rebate Cards is one million yuan; exceeding this range will render them invalid.)"
"One Favorability Value Scanning System."
The funds rewarded by the System are being transferred to the Host's bank card (System rewards are traceable legal funds and will not pose any financial or legal risk to the Host).
Immediately after the System finished its prompt, Jiang Cheng's phone rang with a familiar notification sound.
Hearing the sound, Jiang Cheng couldn't help but exclaim, "Holy shit!"
He picked up his phone to look.
"Your China Merchants Card ending in 5456 has received a transfer of ten million yuan. The balance is 10,032,311 yuan."
Then he looked at the porsche logo car key that had appeared in his hand without him noticing.
This was the first time Jiang Cheng had ever touched such a real, exquisite, and textured car key.
Just then, the System sounded again.
"Does the Host wish to activate the Favorability Value Scanning System?"
"Activate!"
After Jiang Cheng said this, he looked at the strange woman who was hugging him.
"Favorability Value Scanning System commencing, retrieving target information."
[Name: Yu Xiaoxiao]
[Age: 25]
[Height: 165 cm]
[Appearance: 93]
[Figure: 94]
[Privacy: 1]
[favorability value: 60 (Intimate State)]
The previous few values were very simple and easy to understand.
But Jiang Cheng was somewhat confused about the 'Privacy' value.
Jiang Cheng opened the System's explanation page.
[The Privacy Value refers to a person's private life. The numerical digit refers to the number of intimate contacts they have had with the opposite sex.]
Seeing this explanation, Jiang Cheng instantly understood.
Didn't the number one for Yu Xiaoxiao refer to Jiang Cheng?
This Privacy Value feature really was a good thing.
Not only could it let him take things slow, but more importantly, it could prevent him from being cuckolded.
So the Interpersonal Relationship Scanning System was a lightning rod given to him by the System.
A pair of jade arms suddenly wrapped around his waist inside the quilt.
A tender, smooth little hand was randomly moving up and down.
She was also mumbling incoherently, "I didn't expect you to be such a scumbag. You actually came up with such a unique and refined excuse to break up."
Jiang Cheng looked at the stunning woman in front of him who was taking advantage of him.
Beneath her natural willow leaf eyebrows were rows of curled, thick, long eyelashes.
A delicate, slightly upturned nose.
Slightly bitten, tempting red lips.
He couldn't help but exclaim again: what a mature, dominant woman.
Earlier today, he had gone to a random bar to drink because Zhao Jia was ignoring him again.
And Yu Xiaoxiao seemed to have also encountered some setback.
As the two chatted happily, cocktail after cocktail went down.
They finished over a dozen drinks in one go.
Soon, they became groggy.
What happened next was not surprising.
Just as he was reborn, he found Yu Xiaoxiao actively climbing onto his neck.
Jiang Cheng, who was confused, naturally didn't stand on ceremony with Yu Xiaoxiao.
After the two went back and forth, a bleeding incident occurred.
He just didn't know what kind of heartbreak Yu Xiaoxiao had suffered.
That she would actively bring him to a place like this to heal her wounds.
Although Jiang Cheng had just given her a pointed treatment to heal her wounds.
Yet Yu Xiaoxiao's favorability value towards him was still only 60 points.
This showed that she hadn't fallen in love with him at first sight.
She either blacked out from drinking or was despairing over something.
At this moment, Yu Xiaoxiao propped her head up with one hand, her face bearing a seductive smile.
With the other hand, she poked Jiang Cheng's abdomen.
"You were just talking about how much you liked her when we were drinking earlier. Sure enough, there are no good men in this world."
Seeing Yu Xiaoxiao tease him, Jiang Cheng couldn't be bothered to explain.
He put down his phone, grabbed Yu Xiaoxiao's still-moving little hand, and said softly.
"You're drunk. Let me give you another sobering injection."
Before rebirth, Jiang Cheng's dream was to become a reliable family doctor.
Especially the kind that gives injections.
He didn't expect it to start coming true on the first day of his rebirth... "Ding! Due to the Host's excessive speed, the Host is rewarded with a Supercar Purchase Critical Card (unlimited amount, limited to one vehicle)!"
"Reward: Skill, Agile Tongue Tip. [Special Note: This skill optimizes and strengthens every cell on the Host's tongue tip, making it more flexible and its strength more potent.]"
Hearing this, Jiang Cheng was stunned. He tried to stick out his tongue tip and slowly moved it around.
He suddenly realized that his previously somewhat stiff tongue had become incredibly flexible!
With his current tongue, performing a Tongue Dance would be effortless.
Jiang Cheng looked at Yu Xiaoxiao sleeping beside him, and suddenly the corners of his mouth curved into a small Nike swoosh...