Water Margin: The Pay-Me-More Scholar, Living Freely on Liangshan

He transmigrates into Water Margin and, from the start, becomes Chao Gai's good-for-nothing younger brother, Chao Ming, a man who couldn't hurt a fly!

Just as Chao Gai is dying with an arrow in him, Song Jiang puts on a show of false kindness and pushes out the old guard. He tosses Chao Ming a hundred taels as hush money, hoping he'll obediently play the mascot.

Ding! The Pay-Me-More System is activated!

Only silver earned “through honest labor” can buy peerless martial arts or exchange for a Marrow-Cleansing Pill.

Money given as charity? The System won't recognize it!

To grow stronger and stay alive, Chao Ming picks up a chipped woodcutter's knife and plunges into the deadly cycle of taking jobs in a jianghu that devours the weak.

“Kill a bandit, earn thirty taels!”

“Rescue a hostage, earn three hundred taels!”

“Take Shi Wengong down? Fine, but it'll cost extra: a thousand taels!”

Starting with two taels in loose silver, he grinds for coins like a man possessed. His Dragon-Soaring Saber technique reaches mastery, and he forcefully perfects the Muscle-Tendon Transformation Scripture.

While Song Jiang is still begging for an imperial amnesty, Chao Ming, under the alias “Pay-Me-More,” has already carved a bloody path through the world by taking jobs.

While the heroes are driven to the brink, Chao Ming has already spent his way to an invincible army. He plants a foot on the dragon throne, looks down over the assembled officials, and laughs coldly.

“I'll take this job to overthrow the court, even without extra pay!”