(Urban fantasy, System, tycoon, comeback, bargain hunting, face-slapping)
Everyone thought Lin Yue had lost his mind. The day he was laid off, he had only 7,963 yuan and 42 fen left in his account. He went back to his hometown, slept for a night, and woke up to a System on his phone: fifty million yuan a day, but he could only buy things nobody else wanted. Half-built buildings, foreclosed homes, bankrupt factories. The only unfinished building in Qingyuan County had been abandoned by its developer three years earlier and failed to attract a single bid in two court auctions. Everyone called it haunted. Lin Yue spent three days digging through the records and discovered the developer had started that rumor himself. On auction day, a building-materials dealer bid against him, pushing the price up by 500,000 yuan. Lin Yue gritted his teeth and bought it. After three days of painting the walls white, he posted online: “West City Avenue opens by year-end. Three units, bundled together for 850,000 yuan.” On the fourth day, someone called him. “You did a nice job painting those walls.” After hanging up, he glanced at the System: Upgrade conditions 0/10. He had no idea what would happen after he sold ten units, but there was an abandoned processing plant east of Qingyuan County, a large stretch of farmland in the neighboring county, and an unfinished residential complex next door. He was going to buy every place everyone else avoided.
Later, the people of the county realized that the junk-dealing property agent was buying up half of Qingyuan County.
