Urban Chapter
At the age of sixteen, his father died of illness and he was heavily in debt. Shen Yan dropped out of school to support the family.
He started by moving bricks on construction sites, and then worked in sales, set up street stalls, and opened small shops. No connections, no background, just a fierce drive to "want to live." After five years of hard work, he understood the ways of the world, learned how to leverage his own strength, and transformed from a debt-ridden boy into a moderately successful young entrepreneur.
On the day when his life finally got better, he found a tattered ancient book in the used book market - "The Record of Strange News".
Turning over the first page, the world was spinning.
Another World
Shen Yan woke up and became the lowest slave in the mine in another world.
In this world, there are monks who fly into the sky and escape from the earth, monsters who can control the wind and rain, and warriors who are powerful enough to lift mountains. And he has nothing.
But he has what five years of hard work in the city taught him -
Human worldliness is universal, business logic is universal, and information gaps will always exist.
So Shen Yan chose to remain silent for now.
While others are working hard in the mines to earn a living, he is observing who is in power, who is rich, and who is in trouble.
While others are gambling their lives to cultivate, he is studying the "costs" and "benefits" of this world.
Until one day, he discovered a secret——
The "aura" of this world is essentially a resource that can be quantified and traded.
And quantify resources, formulate rules, build channels...
Isn't this what he does best?
From the mine slave to the shopkeeper, from the shopkeeper to the lord, from the lord to... That being who cannot even be named.
Shen Yan spent five years learning one thing: there are no desperate situations in this world, only rules that have not yet been discovered.
Concept: Thousands of sails pass by the side of the sunken boat