Name: I Turned the Poorest Border City into the Center of the World
Author: Mr. Angry Bull

Synopsis

Su Ye quits his job in Shenzhen after nearly working himself into a heart attack and returns to a remote desert town on the northwestern frontier, a place so barren even birds wouldn’t bother to shit there.

He awakens a System: all thirty thousand townspeople give him 100 yuan each per day, earning him three million a day! The money can only be spent in town. The mayor is worried about attracting investment? Su Ye buys up an unfinished building and turns it into a full-immersion esports center. The villagers live on potatoes? Su Ye spends big to bring in water and build a ten-thousand-mu temperature-controlled oasis in the desert. Starting with a revamp of the town’s entertainment industry, he builds a top-tier hospital, an international airport, and a world-class materials research institute.

When the world’s richest people have to queue for ten years just to get a temporary residence permit in town, Su Ye is fishing by the man-made sea he built, dressed in an old undershirt...

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