A Republican-Era Guide to Squandering Money: Losing Money Is Surprisingly Hard

After transmigrating to the twentieth year of the Republic of China, Su Chen binds himself to the “Billionaire System.” As long as he blows through the mission funds, he’ll receive massive personal rewards.

Faced with such an incredible windfall, Su Chen is ecstatic: “Wasting money is my specialty!” From the start, he slashes prices to a tenth, stirs up malicious hype, builds a school on wasteland, and pays over the odds for scrap metal. Who could have guessed that the wealthy of Shencheng would imagine him to be a patriotic national hero, the whole city would rush to buy his goods of its own accord, and even foreigners would line up to ask him to manufacture products for them? Other people go into business afraid of going broke. Su Chen goes into business afraid of getting rich. As he watches his assets double with tears in his eyes and sees fifty million in rewards sitting in the System warehouse, he looks up at the sky and sighs: “I really just wanted to lose money!”