Tycoon: My Spending Can Be Redeemed in the Future

Lin Yan, twenty-seven, is a product manager at an internet company in Linjiang. On the day the company announces layoffs, he is offered an absurdly inadequate severance package. Then his girlfriend of two years breaks up with him, having been disappointed for too long. Back in his cramped rental apartment, he activates the Future Returns System, gaining a starting allowance of 100,000 yuan and the ability to view an investment's "return on value."

The System's first tip isn't to buy a luxury car. Instead, it says that the noodle shop downstairs, which is on the verge of closing, has a future return on value of 782%.

With his first payout, Lin Yan buys neither luxury goods nor status symbols. He buys the recipe and brand that are about to disappear, both still in the hands of the owner, Chen Guoliang. This earns him his first fortune and makes him realize for the first time that the System doesn't reward frivolous spending. It rewards putting money where it can generate future value.

As his abilities improve, he ventures into restaurants, content creation, hotels, intelligent manufacturing, and new energy materials. As he rises from an individual comeback to the cutthroat world of business, he must gradually stop worshipping the numbers and learn to judge the human nature, responsibility, and long-term choices the System cannot measure.

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