The Retired Ancestor Reaps the Rewards

Ren Changming went berserk while undergoing his tribulation and died. The System sent him to the modern world, where he worked as a technical director and completed missions. Just as retirement was finally within sight, the System sent him back to the cultivation world to retire. No internet. No good food. Is this retirement? No, this is hell! Ren Changming took another look at his disciples and their descendants: workers who never even needed to sleep! Even capitalists would be green with envy! So Ren Changming developed new magical artifacts and came up with all kinds of clever ways to do business and fleece the masses, becoming the richest man in the cultivation world. Ordinary cultivators: "What a cheap sword! The seller's such a generous soul. I'm buying the whole lot!" A spy from a rival sect: "Our sect's fabric shop can't compete on price? Then I'll defect and make a fortune as a scalper!" A gravely injured disciple: "My meridians were destroyed and I was crippled, but thankfully the Patriarch's medical artifact saved me!" A rival sect: "You're charging me for internet access while secretly listening in on my plan to assassinate you?!" A disciple working hard on research: "Thank you, Patriarch, for investing in me. Now I can turn my patent into money." Ren Changming lounged on a cushioned couch, surfing the internet and sipping afternoon tea. Only when all my disciples and their descendants work hard can I, their Patriarch, enjoy a proper retirement~ Reader's guide: Little bonus scenes may pop up from time to time. If the author has a hidden message, you won't be able to see it~ Tomorrow, October 17, the novel will go behind a paywall. Chapters 15-33 will be locked. Chapter 34, released on the day it goes premium, will be a special 10,000-word update. I hope you'll show the novel lots of support~ My next novel, Blue Star Director Takes the Galaxy by Storm, is already underway. Please add it to your favorites~ Just after Meng Xiyang awakened memories of his past life as a director who won an international award, his parents were framed for embezzling company funds. They were in an accident, one dying and the other left in a coma. To earn money to care for his comatose mother, clear his family's name, and get revenge on the people behind it all, Meng Xiyang starts making dramas, earning money and building connections. In the interstellar entertainment industry, serious war dramas and pure love stories dominate the mainstream. They're righteous and uplifting, but monotonous. Interstellar audiences think the discarded son of the Meng family, with no experience, is doomed to fail as a director. They get ready to watch him go bankrupt and beg on the streets. But then... A short drama about a middle-aged CEO's whirlwind marriage has people across the stars mocking it even as they keep watching, and their retirement savings vanish in no time! A sprawling campus romance about a chase-to-win-her-back romance has interstellar viewers weeping as they shower him with star coins. The young couple learns to explain themselves, and Meng Xiyang becomes the galaxy's matchmaker, living off digital offerings of incense. Meng Xiyang: "?" His snobbish aunt: "The vicious female supporting character in this drama has a name very similar to mine. Meng Xiyang is deliberately smearing me..." Then the aunt is exposed for bullying students at school and gets hauled off to jail. A drama about a wealthy family's power struggles, with every family member scheming against the others, leaves audiences exclaiming, "What a mess this rich circle is!" Meng family uncle: "I'm a womanizer, but I never force anyone." Then he's exposed for attending an extravagant sex party and rewarded with a big bowl of prison food! The Meng family patriarch is quite at ease. After all, the family head in the drama marries a young beauty and has a son who's older than his grandson. He himself has never remarried. Then his mistress is exposed as pregnant! The eldest grandson and his wife, who have yet to have children: "..." Investor Zhong Yisong: "I'd like a romance between humans and another species. My only requirement is that it moves my mother-in-law." Meng Xiyang: "..." Updates daily at 9 a.m. Three chapters a day before going premium, six chapters a day afterward. Theme: Working together to build a better life.