From the Start, I Had a Thousand Death Soldiers, and Achieved Financial Freedom

Urban setting + feel-good power fantasy + playing the fool to catch the tiger. Lin Yu's grades in high school were not very good. He had just turned eighteen when he went out to find work. At night, he lay in a dormitory shared by twenty people, so hot he could not sleep. As Lin Yu drifted off, a voice sounded in his mind: “The mission has begun. A thousand death warriors will pledge their loyalty to you and obey your every command.” The next day, as soon as Lin Yu stepped out of the factory compound, he saw a thousand people standing at the entrance. “Master, we have come as ordered.”