Reborn: How a College Student Spent His Way to Godhood

Li Mingqi, an ordinary student at the University of Finance and Economics, witnesses his girlfriend colluding with a rich second-generation heir to steal his startup proposal and humiliate him. He then mysteriously "falls" to his death from a rooftop. When he opens his eyes again, he has been reborn one week before the tragedy and bound to a strange System called "Dimensional Explorer." Its core rules are simple and brutal: spend the enormous start-up funds provided by the System within a set time, and travel to designated locations to livestream your explorations. The faster you spend, the more dangerous the exploration and the more explosive the livestream, and the richer the rewards: cash refunds, physical enhancements (Body Building, Sinew Tempering, Bone Refining...), skills implanted directly into his mind, and access to maps of hidden "secret realms" on Earth.

Armed with 100,000 in start-up funds, Li Mingqi's first stop is an abandoned chemical plant rumored to be haunted by students. While his classmates look at him like he's an idiot and the few viewers in his livestream post mocking comments, he splurges on professional equipment and ventures inside alone. During the livestream, he not only uncovers the truth about the pollution at the plant, but also discovers a tiny ancient altar ruin deep within, emanating strange energy. Once he completes the mission, the rewards arrive: his funds double, his body undergoes its initial "Body Building," and he gains "Basic Energy Perception." Clips from the livestream spread, making him famous, but they also attract the first wave of attention: the jealousy of Chen Hao, a rich heir at his university, and a warning sent via private message from the mysterious forum "Secret Realm Watchers."

From then on, Li Mingqi's life falls into a frenzied cycle: classes, raising funds, spending money, exploring, livestreaming, getting stronger. The missions grow ever more challenging: a secret World War II laboratory deep in the city's underground drainage system, a lost Miao village in the primeval forests of the southwest, a moving ghost city in Lop Nur... His straightforward