Cai Xukun is a 25-year-old single guy. He’s 1.8 meters tall and in good shape, but has no educational credentials, no money in his wallet, and works hauling goods every day at a garment factory in Dongguan. He eats cheap fast food, and his dorm room has nothing but instant noodles and video games. After being repeatedly dismissed and humiliated in front of others by women on blind dates for being “broke, average-looking, and going nowhere,” his self-esteem takes a beating.
After hearing from a coworker that a local fortune-teller is incredibly accurate, he goes to draw a fortune stick, figuring he has nothing to lose.
Putting on a mysterious air, the fortune-teller delivers a prophecy along the lines of, “If you want a relationship, you must first sever your ties to love; if you want wealth and status, you must first endure tribulation.”
Half believing it, the protagonist returns home that day, when a mechanical voice suddenly rings in his mind: [Tycoon System successfully bound!]...