At 22, Liu Qiangxi is a bottom-tier nobody living in an urban village. He earns 3,500 yuan a month as a junior designer at an advertising agency, owns no car or home, and has no savings. His colleagues steal his ideas, his boss docks his pay, and a gold-digger humiliates him in public on a blind date.
At his lowest point, the cheap wristband he bought on a secondhand platform for 9.9 yuan accidentally activates the “Big Brain” System! With its thick Northeastern accent and nonstop wisecracks, the System can expose people’s dirty secrets, warn him of danger, and tailor comebacks and money-making strategies just for him. It’s the ultimate comeback tool for a nobody.
From then on, Liu Qiangxi fights his way back with confidence. He makes a gold-digger who freeloads off him cry, puts his stingy boss in his place, and turns the tables on workplace schemers. Using the System to his advantage, he builds his fortune from an initial 100 yuan, makes one comeback after another in different fields, founds Harbin Lao Liu Pharmaceutical Factory, and becomes a major player in the pharmaceutical industry.
He’s ruthless and decisive with outsiders, but tender and fiercely protective toward those who treat him sincerely. His commanding CEO presence is all the more striking for the contrast. The story is filled with the System’s hilarious commentary. There are no superpowered villains, only ordinary people scheming against each other and getting their comeuppance. It’s all about the cathartic thrill of a nobody’s comeback.
From a lowly ant to a pharmaceutical tycoon worth hundreds of billions, this is a comeback story about being gentle only with your own people, and the ultimate fantasy of an ordinary person breaking free of hardship and turning their life around.
