I'm a Scalper in a Video Game

After accidentally transmigrating five years into the future, recent graduate Ruan Su discovers she's become a mortgage slave.

Her entire monthly salary goes toward expenses, she owes the bank a fortune, and she's barely scraping by on instant noodles.

Luckily, the various outfits she'd just bought for her in-game daughter before transmigrating, but hadn't yet had the chance to put on her, are still in her inventory. Five years later, these outfits are rare collectibles, each worth five or six figures.

After finally paying off her loan and eating her fill, Ruan Su discovers that she can also travel back in time.

So she starts trading between the past and the future.

Game materials that used to be prohibitively expensive have since dropped in value due to version updates.

Limited-edition outfits she once thought were so ugly she'd never wear them have since skyrocketed in price because they're so rare.

After traveling back and forth again and again, Ruan Su discovers that she's gone from a poor little thing with nothing but debt to her name to a major investor with countless properties and a whole portfolio of rental homes!

Reader's guide:

1. The scalpers in the title are merchants who trade in game outfits, not real-world ticket scalpers.

2. The story starts slowly, but after the second trip through time, she gets on the fast track to making a fortune.

3. This is a wish-fulfillment story, and the game has original elements. You don't need to have played the game to enjoy it.

4. The outline is set. The male lead has a minor role early on. I hope you enjoy reading, and thank you!

Blurb dated October 29, 2020

Please bookmark my ongoing serial, After Taking Over the Desert, I Made Thirty Billion

#Mainly running a business at first, then mainly infrastructure development#

Su Su graduates only to find herself unemployed. She's also bound to a black-tech System, which forces her to take over ten thousand mu of desert in her hometown.

The useless System has no regard for human life. It signs a seventy-year contract in one go and even "thoughtfully" pays the three billion yuan lease fee in advance.

"Ha. Forget three billion. I don't even have three hundred yuan right now."

Just when Su Su is about to despair, she learns that the System's black-tech manufacturing equipment can make a fortune.

Shatterproof glass, memory foam cat litter, sleep hourglasses...

Sand can be used as a raw material to manufacture all kinds of high-tech products, opening up a whole new world for Su Su.

More importantly, the "industrial waste" left behind by manufacturing can restore life to a barren desert.

[Question: If I lease the barren Kunwu Desert and sell its sand, can I make three billion in my lifetime?]

[Answer: Wake up, wage slave. Sand in the desert has no commercial value. Forget three billion, you couldn't even make one hundred million.]

[System: You can, because I'm the strongest black-tech manufacturing System.]

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As everyone knows, nothing grows in the barren desert. It's devoid of life and is on the blacklist of countless desert rehabilitation teams.

One day, a newly established factory called "Xingwu Technology" takes it over.

From then on, the barren desert has not only green plants, but also special tourist attractions. Visitors flock in from all over to see what's going on, and never want to leave.

Please bookmark my friend's novel

After Being Reborn, She Became the Richest NPC by Bian Tai Mao Ya

After being reborn, You Kemeng enters The Lost Continent again, only to trigger the same game bug as in her previous life and become an NPC: Serena, daughter of the wealthiest man.

You Kemeng knows this game is going to become hugely popular, with a vast player trading market that's practically a giant gold mine. Most importantly, the money she earns from players can be converted into real-world currency.

So she sets out to become an excellent merchant, working hard to win over the player market.

Later, Serena becomes the richest NPC in the game and the one players love most.

When they see Serena, players sing her praises: "Beautiful and elegant Miss Serena, I will always be in awe of you."

Back on the forums, they roll up their sleeves and keep commenting on the thread: "Has the greedy merchant gone bankrupt yet?!!!"

One day, an ID called "Excellent Merchant Serena" appears in the thread and leaves a comment: [I think I can raise the service fees in my shop by another 25%~!]

Naturally, the poster is ridiculed:

[If you're going to impersonate a greedy merchant, at least use your brain. NPCs can't post on the forums!]

[If you're Serena, then I'm your dad!]

After spending the whole night making fun of her, they wake up the next day in shock to find that the service fees in all of Serena's shops really have gone up by 25%.

Players: ⊙v⊙!

Theme: Life is like a cage. Dare to break the rules.