The Entire Interstellar World Keeps Misreading Me

Lin You transmigrates.

The good news: He's alive.

The bad news: His life is on shaky ground.

He becomes a frail young man in a slum on an interstellar planet, with pockets emptier than his face and his life counting down by the second. In this highly capitalist world, there's only one way for him to survive:

Spend money.

Spend money to extend his life, spend money to put down roots, spend money to top up this wretched life of his.

And to make things worse, there's a four-year-old child by his side, with a cold little face and a merciless baby voice:

"Big brother, your account balance is zero today."

"We recommend spending immediately, or your soul's service will stop in twenty-four hours."

Lin You: "..."

Other people transmigrate and get a golden finger. He transmigrates and gets automatic payments.

To stay alive, Lin You has no choice but to earn money and keep renewing his subscription, while dragging Xiao Qi along as they struggle to survive in the slums. All he wants is to lie low, scrape together enough money for one more day of life, and take good care of the little one by his side.

But for some reason, whenever he mutters something to himself, events go charging off in an absurd direction.

[This project looks profitable, but investing in it is basically like throwing money into a black hole.]

The investors pull out on the spot, narrowly avoiding a colossal financial pitfall.

[That lady's handbag is coming apart at the seams. She has to save either her marriage or her Hermes, right?]

The wealthy lady blows up on the spot, and the entire upper crust is turned upside down overnight.

[That minister looks a little off... Like something's about to happen.]

The next day, the Federation launches an emergency investigation and uncovers a smuggling operation that had been hidden for years.

Lin You: ?

It's not like he meant anything by it. He just wants to stay alive and vent a little.

And so...

The more he wants to lie flat, the more the entire interstellar world takes him for a mysterious, unfathomable big shot;

The more he wants to keep a low profile, the more every financial magnate and powerful figure stays up all night trying to read between the lines of his words;

Every bit of money he casually spends to extend his life somehow earns him an absurdly huge return.

Later, his family, who had been separated from him, finally find him.

But the first thing Lin You does after being taken back into a wealthy family is cling tightly to the little child at his side:

"He's my younger brother."

"If he's here, I'm staying."

He thinks he's just an outsider borrowing someone else's identity,

never realizing that while he was carefully protecting Xiao Qi and quietly sharing all his tenderness with others, someone had already heard the sincerity in his heart and decided to protect both him and the little one by his side, no matter what.

At first, Lin You thought he was using money to give his soul roots.

Only later did he understand:

Money can keep a person alive.

But what really makes someone stay has never been money.

It's having someone willing to accept them. In the end, Lin You and Xiao Qi finally find a home, too.

This is the story of a frail young man and a little child struggling to survive among the stars, while everyone mistakes him for an investment genius, until both of them are doted on to the ends of the universe.

On the surface, it's a wish-fulfillment story about getting rich through mistaken assumptions. At heart, it's a healing fairy tale about two little strays being gently nurtured back to health.

Theme: Money can extend your life, but love lets you put down roots.