After Losing My Job, I Became a God by Showing Off

Chen Beichen, 38, is a middle manager at a major internet company. After 12 years at the firm, he thought he could stay until retirement. Then an email announcing layoffs reduced him to nothing.

He still has 23 years of mortgage payments left, his daughter has just started elementary school, and his wife's expression grows more sour by the day. In the class group chat, one former classmate after another, all of whom used to be less successful than him, has been promoted and made a fortune. He's the only one who's become a joke.

One night, as he stands on an overpass in the wind, a mechanical voice rings out in his mind

[Ding! The Host is experiencing an intense emotional impulse to “show off.” The Anything-Goes Show-Off System is now bound!]

[Show off in front of others and stir their emotions, such as shock, admiration, jealousy, or fear, to earn show-off points. Show-off points can be exchanged for god-tier skills!]

Chen Beichen thinks the pressure has made him hallucinate. Then the next day, at a reunion where former colleagues mock him, he steels himself and puts on a show

[Show-off successful! Onlookers: 8. Shock points earned: 640! Skill available for exchange: God-Tier Driving]

From then on, a middle-aged man pushed to the brink opens the door to a whole new world.

At class reunions, while others flaunt their cars and watches, he casually demonstrates the prowess of a grandmaster of traditional martial arts. At business negotiations, the expert team hired by the other side is crushed by his god-tier business foresight. At auctions, he uses god-tier appraisal skills to snap up priceless antiques for a song. Even at his daughter's school parents' meeting, he can stun everyone with god-tier piano skills.

Show off like the wind, and let it always be at your side. This time, he's going to show off all the way to the top of the world.