From the Start, Saddled with a Hundred-Billion Debt, I Build a Utopia Next Door

Lu Ming is framed by unscrupulous tycoons, saddled with tens of billions in debt, and exiled to an unfinished artificial island across from the Magic City, where he is left to fend for himself without water or electricity. Just as everyone is waiting for him to jump into the sea, Lu Ming binds himself to the [Super Territory System]! As long as he spends money on island development and employee benefits, he gets fully reimbursed and unlocks era-defining technology! Recruit a big-tech employee, and he earns plans for controlled nuclear fusion! Raise the happiness level across the island, and he gets a daily jackpot of tens of millions in cash! And so, everything takes a dramatic turn. While workers across the water are still paying off mortgages on pigeonhole apartments costing 100,000 per square meter and pulling all-nighters on a 996 schedule, holographic billboards hundreds of meters tall rise on the unfinished island: “Come work for me! Get a 200-square-meter sea-view apartment when you join, work four days and take three off, get free medical care, and earn double the salary!” At first, the capitalists in the Magic City think it's a scam. Then one day, they discover to their horror that the company's chief engineer has left, the hospital's lead surgeon has left, and even the cleaning lady who swept the lobby downstairs has packed her bedding and fled across the water in the middle of the night! The bustling Magic City gradually turns into a ghost town, while the abandoned unfinished island sprouts cyberpunk skyscrapers, a space elevator, and flying cars! Years later, global tycoons and oligarchs kneel before the artificial island's cross-sea bridge, weeping as they beg for an audience with Lu Ming. Lu Ming shrugs helplessly. “At first, I really just wanted to build some infrastructure and pay off my debt. How did I accidentally poach all the world's talent?”