One-line summary: Men only slow down my money-making, except for my little brother!
Luo Guan, the eldest son of the Luo family, is rebellious and reckless. His father kicks him out of the house, and when he finally returns, it is for his father's funeral.
After the funeral, his uncles gang up on him, strip him of his shares, and throw him out.
On a rainy night, Luo Guan crouches on the street like a drenched dog when someone tosses him a card.
Mysterious stranger: "Want to make money? The kind where you bet your life on it."
Luo Guan's eyes turn bloodshot. "I want lots of money. So much money I can destroy the Luo family!"
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Starting from Scratch is the most dangerous game circulating on the black market.
Players must enter an instance in teams of two and earn enough money before time runs out.
Winners can exchange twenty percent of their earnings for real-world currency.
Losers will lose twenty percent of their bodies within a week, whether they are alive or dead.
Luo Guan has to find an exceptionally strong partner.
His eyes scan the crowd, searching among the many finance talents from top universities and the wild market gamblers.
Suddenly, a grubby little hand tugs at him. "Big brother, pick me. I only have half a brain. It's so sad."
A pale, frail hand lifts half a face, revealing an empty mechanical cranial cavity.
The next second, their team contract is successfully bound!
The game begins!
Luo Guan pounds desperately on the emergency exit. "Let me out! I don't want to team up with an idiot!"
Later, Luo Guan discovers that the filthy little kid is actually a genius!
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Luo Guan has no idea how Lin Mianmian ended up here.
But he swears that once he earns enough money to get out alive, he will cure Lin Mianmian's brain.
In Luo Guan's eyes, Lin Mianmian is well-behaved, sensible, smart, and adorable, a clingy little brother.
Until one day, in the dim waiting area after clearing an instance...
Lin Mianmian grabs a man's hair and slams him against the wall, his eyes gleaming with bloodlust. "Which eye were you looking at my brother with? I'll gouge it out!"
Luo Guan bangs his forehead against the wall. "Wake up! This isn't my clingy, sweet, adorable little brother!"
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After clearing every instance, Luo Guan gets his hands on a fortune and successfully takes back the Luo family, but he loses his little brother, Lin Mianmian.
A year passes, then another, and Luo Guan finally accepts that Lin Mianmian may not be on Earth.
He pours money into a space program and personally joins its first experiment.
Now the richest man in the world, Luo Guan says on a global livestream, "Lin Mianmian, your big brother is coming to take you home."
At that moment, in the world's leading cryogenic biology lab, Lin Mian, founder of the KDL Group, has just woken up in a hospital room.
The tall, handsome man still looks unwell as he yanks out his IV. "Quick, quick, don't! My wife is going to fly away!"
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Instance 1: The bankrupt brothers at the sugar factory
Instance 2: The debt-ridden brothers who pick up scrap
Instance 3: The shattered dream of real estate, the ghost city mayor
Instance 4: A barren planet running out of energy
[Highlight: Older top! The gong is over a hundred years old!!]
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