Shen Lang crouched on the steps by the back entrance of the wholesale market. He had only 37 yuan and 5 mao left in his pocket.
His girlfriend, Zhou Li, had taken his 18,000 yuan and run off with Mr. Li, a building-materials tycoon. Three hundred thousand yuan worth of out-of-season clothes sat unsold in his warehouse. The 2,000-yuan rent was due tomorrow, and his landlord had sent three rent-chasing texts. His father farmed in the countryside and had just undergone a heart bypass the year before. He had absolutely no connections he could borrow from.
On the night he hit rock bottom, a line appeared on his phone: Random Critical Multiplier System binding in progress. Multiplier range: 0.1x to 10,000x.
He sold off all his inventory and brought in 8,200 yuan, then got a 0.5x multiplier and lost half. He took out a loan from a loan shark and spent 16,000 yuan on a secondhand Jetta. A 3,000x multiplier hit, and 54.3 million yuan instantly landed in his account. He then invested 20 million in Li Guodong's fake project. An 180x multiplier hit, and 3.6 billion yuan poured into his account.
It took him just three days to go from sleeping in a warehouse to sleeping in a suite that cost 8,000 yuan a night.
Right in front of Li Guodong, he tore up the contract. He valued two years of love at a breakup fee of 20,000 yuan and threw it at Zhou Li. The poor kid from back then now sat in a cafe, watching the people who had once screwed him over, their hands shaking and faces twitching, while he sat with his back ramrod straight.
But the System gave him a new alert: The multiplier for the next transaction is uncontrollable, with a minimum of 0.1x.
What gamblers fear most has never been losing. It's winning. Once they win, they want to win even more.
Su Wan called to say that someone else was backing Li Guodong.
Shen Lang stepped on the gas. He knew the real gamble had only just begun.
[Random Critical Multiplier System, multiplier from 0.1 to 10,000. Are you willing to stake your life on it?]
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