The Tycoon’s Passing Extra Is Living the Rich Life Today, Too

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[Former title: The God-Tier Wealth System Keeps Telling Me to Spend Money Every Day]

Jiang Zhaoyu is unemployed and stuck at home with only 20,000 yuan in her checking account when she unexpectedly gets bound to the God-Tier Wealth System.

The System tells her that each day, all she has to do is spend every cent it gives her on time. She can go over budget, but she can't have anything left over.

Money she spends is refunded at double the amount. If she fails to spend it all, she'll get electric shock therapy.

Jiang Zhaoyu: What? There's really a deal like this? You can actually run out of ways to spend money?

*

The System tells Jiang Zhaoyu that she's an anonymous background character in a rich-family novel. This world is on the verge of collapse because people are questioning whether the protagonists' stingy spending can even count as “being rich.” To save the world, someone needs to keep spending money and become truly wealthy.

Jiang Zhaoyu: ...I don't know why saving the world means calling on a background character like me, but fine. I'll spend money and save the world.

On day one, Jiang Zhaoyu buys three pairs of Alexander McQueen sneakers.

On day two, she buys every Apple product available.

On day three, she buys the entire Chanel Sublimage skincare line.

Every day, she stops as soon as she's spent that day's allowance.

System: Why can't you try to spend a little more? Aren't you saving the world? You should be in a hurry! Don't you know how to spend money?!

Jiang Zhaoyu replies calmly: It's not that we're not spending. We're spending gradually, slowly, and well, in an orderly, step-by-step fashion.

System: What? Don't give me that. If you keep dragging your feet, I'll shock you too.

*

Jiang Zhaoyu can't disobey the System's orders, so she's forced to spend money enthusiastically every day.

Luxury goods, sports cars, mansions, yachts, private jets? Bought.

S+ blockbuster TV series, major IP adaptations, premium films and games? Invested in.

High-tech research institutes and drug development teams? Funded.

Donations for road construction and charity? All taken care of.

Later on...

The storage rooms in Jiang Zhaoyu's estate are overflowing with the luxury goods she's bought.

Every film and TV project she invests in becomes a hit, producing countless top-tier stars, award-winning actresses, and television stars.

The work of her scientific research teams dramatically improves the chances of curing common diseases.

Schools named after her rise in the mountains of countless impoverished regions, becoming children's hope of finding a way out.

The world settles into stability, but the System is still unsatisfied.

The first thing Jiang Zhaoyu hears every day is: Wake up, it's time to get out of bed and spend money.

Watching her bank balance grow as she spends, Jiang Zhaoyu is driven to distraction: Stop nagging! I'm spending, I really am!

1. Please don't offer writing advice. My writing skills are limited, and it's hard to make changes even with advice.

2. The heroine will have several relationships at different stages, but she won't get married.

3. I'll update as often as I can. I'll take time off if something comes up, but I'll do my best to finish this book.

4. I'm not rich. All the details come from research and imagination, so please excuse any exaggerated or unrealistic creative liberties.

5. I don't follow celebrities, and any entertainment industry figures in this story aren't based on real people. Please don't read anything into them.

Coming soon: The Real Heiress Is the Alien Queen, book ID: 10473922

Jiang Mingxin is reborn as the cannon-fodder real heiress in a sci-fi novel about a fake and real heiress.

When she opens her eyes, she's just been attacked by an alien and has turned into an indescribable puddle of goo.

Aliens are the original novel's greatest villains. They covet human flesh and are eventually wiped out by the SSS-rank male lead and his army.

At the same time, memories of the original story flood her mind. The original owner spent sixteen years stranded on a garbage planet. After being found and brought home, she grew jealous of the S-rank fake heiress, sabotaged her at every turn, and was eventually sent back to the garbage planet to die.

Jiang Mingxin struggles to maintain a human form: ...This is a sci-fi novel, and we're still doing the real-and-fake-heiress trope? Staying alive is already a problem!

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But before she can return to her wealthy family, she somehow survives and inherits the alien queen's bloodline.

After inheriting it, she discovers that nearly all the aliens are dead. Only the queen, her captain of the guard, and a clutch of unhatched eggs remain.

The good news: The queen's bloodline lets her transform into any shape.

The bad news: At first, she can't control it.

To prevent her species from being wiped out, Jiang Mingxin decides to infiltrate the Federation and sow discord from within.

Step one: enroll at the Federation's top military academy.

*

At the dinner table, the fake “heiress” sweetly serves Jiang Mingxin food and calls her big sister. Under the table, though, she slowly grinds her shoe against Jiang Mingxin's foot and whispers, “A girl from a garbage planet thinks she can go to the same university as me?”

Jiang Mingxin sneezes, and her foot instantly turns into a tentacle, scaring the girl unconscious on the spot.

She thinks the fake heiress won't bother her again after this.

Late that night, the bedroom door quietly opens. The fake “heiress,” dressed in a ladylike skirt, slips into her room and whispers in a low masculine voice right beside her ear: “Big sister, I'll keep your secret... You have to keep mine too.”

Jiang Mingxin: This can't be right. Wasn't this supposed to be a real-and-fake-heiress story?

·

The captain of the guard insists on enrolling alongside her.

Jiang Mingxin means to refuse. Aliens, after all, sound like disgusting, slimy monsters.

But then he takes human form before her: silver hair, gray eyes, stern features, a narrow waist, and long legs.

“Your safety is my responsibility, Your Majesty.”

Jiang Mingxin: ...Who are you?

Fake Young Master: Sis! Who's he?!

Jiang Mingxin: ...This is giving me a headache.

·

Later, the original novel's SSS-rank male lead comes looking for her too.

He's the Federation's strongest fighter. When he arrives, his gaze is icy and his overwhelming mental power bears down on her.

“Your power doesn't seem human.”

Jiang Mingxin yawns. “Oh? And?”

The male lead is silent for a moment. Jiang Mingxin quietly turns the tail she's just grown back into a pair of legs.

He leans toward her. “Please teach me.”

Jiang Mingxin: What?

From then on, the original male lead claims he's conducting “academic research,” but in practice he waits on Jiang Mingxin hand and foot.

·

On the day of the mental power test, the Federation's most advanced equipment explodes with a crash.

The results show: Jiang Mingxin, mental power SSS* (beyond current parameters, impossible to identify).

Everyone assumes that this is her limit.

Until the alien army descends, and tens of thousands of alien eggs awaken together due to the mutation in her mental power.

The entire star region trembles.

Jiang Mingxin stands before the army and snaps her fingers.

Billions of aliens instantly fall into formation and give her a perfectly synchronized military salute.

The entire star region: ???

Theme: Give sincerity, receive sincerity.