A Life of Critical Hits

The moment his gold-digging girlfriend dumped him in public, Su Chen bound himself to a mysterious System that granted explosive cash-back rewards.

As champagne bubbles burst at Starbucks, the notification that tenfold cash back had arrived became the loudest face-slapping blow of all.

It took him just three months to go from a broke college student to the Dark Night Sovereign:

He raked in hundreds of billions on the stock market, reshaped humanity's future with technology, and became the subject of underground legends about how he could crush bullets with his bare hands.

The icy CEO was obsessed with the golden totem on his chest, while foreign assassins knelt and begged him to reveal the secret of the civilization's rebooter.

Only when 9,999 Host death records surfaced deep within the System did Su Chen realize:

The wild celebration of explosive cash-back rewards was nothing but a bloody wager, in which ancient gods selected their godslayers.

And with every beat of his heart, a doomsday countdown hidden for a thousand years sped up...

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.