For personal reasons, this book is on hiatus indefinitely!
“You stayed by my side all night. I’ll repay you for the rest of my life.”
After being poor for twenty-two years, Lu Yuan figured this was probably all his life would amount to.
Until one late night, when he was burning with fever and unconscious in his rented room. Lin Xue, the nurse he had secretly loved for three years, broke down the door and pulled him back from the brink of death. The instant he opened his eyes, a cold mechanical voice rang in his mind:
[Host detected as having been impoverished for twenty-two years. The Life Luck Compensation System is forcibly activating.]
[Compensation starter gift: 200,000 yuan in cash. Deposited.]
From that day on, Lu Yuan’s life hit the fast-forward button. Buying a house and a car, opening a clinic, purchasing equipment: wealth and good fortune snowballed until nothing could stop them.
And Lin Xue, the woman in the nurse’s uniform who had held his hand when he was at his lowest, was no helpless damsel waiting to be protected. She learned contract law and bought a clinic on her own. She learned to use a power drill and hung up the sign herself. She wrote out a list of urban village renovation tasks in the ledger, one item at a time, and repaired the steps at the clinic entrance with her own hands.
Good fortune didn’t fall on just the two of them. From fixing steps and patching roofs to replacing streetlights and resurfacing the stone-paved lane, the neighbors joined in one by one. Old Li from the hardware store, Old Wang the key cutter, Old Liu from the construction site, and Auntie Zhou the landlady: everyone found their own way to protect the neighborhood.
Good fortune isn’t a passing breeze. It’s a seed planted in the soil, taking root and sprouting.
“I stayed by your side all night. How are you going to repay me?”
“...For the rest of my life.”
