I Failed the Exams and Got Rich: Grilling Kidney Skewers in a Northeast Courtyard

After failing the entrance exams, Shen Sui arrived in the Northeast with an 80-million-yuan jackpot in his pocket, sent off to “suffer” under his mother’s best friend.

He expected a melodramatic rich-family saga, but instead he promptly bought a sprawling farmhouse at the foot of Changbai Mountain.

While people his age were killing themselves competing for college places and jobs,

Shen Sui was already enjoying hot-pot stew around the fire in a snowbound Northeast courtyard and heading into the mountains to dig for wild ginseng with gorgeous women.

When he got bored, he went ice fishing on the frozen river.

When he got hungry, he lit the barbecue in the courtyard and watched the meat sizzle with fat.

Wu Mengmeng scolded him, frustrated. “Shen Sui! You’re so young, why are you already retiring? You need to get moving!”

Shen Sui silently pulled out a stack of property deeds: a forest spanning ten thousand mu, a hundred-billion-yuan conglomerate, a commercial empire in Heishui City…

“Auntie, I’m richer than a country. Can’t I just live a quiet life?”