Earn a Million a Day, Get Paid to Clap Back

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Yu Qinghuai knew from an early age that he was a money-grubber.

As a kid, while the boy next door played soccer and got into fights, he delivered newspapers to earn extra cash;

As he grew up, while his classmates messed around, he focused on reselling school supplies and auctioning off his homework at a premium;

At university, while everyone else slacked off, studied, and dated, he set up a stall in his dorm selling computer parts.

While other people dated, he worked tirelessly to make money;

While other people were lost in passionate love and heartbroken romance, he worked tirelessly to make money;

By the time other people had already gone through three breakups, he was still working tirelessly to make money.

Sadly, he came from a poor family. After more than a decade of hustling, he lost everything in a business venture. His life went back to square one overnight, leaving him buried in debt. Years of working himself to the bone had also left him with cancer, and he didn't have long to live.

Yu Qinghuai's verdict: Earth Online has way too little room for error. One-star review. Uninstalled. Never playing again.

The very next second after leaving that bad review, he found himself inside a melodramatic danmei novel about the entertainment industry and wealthy families, playing the role of a despised fake young master who was hated by everyone.

In the original story, his father didn't love him and his mother didn't care for him. He spent his whole life as a foil to the beloved real young master, the one everyone cherished. Everyone he had sincerely cared for betrayed him, ignored him, or abandoned him, and he eventually died of despair.

The Yu Qinghuai who had transmigrated into the story: What the hell? If you've got so much free time, you can start by sending me twenty thousand yuan.

After spending most of his life struggling only to end up a pauper, Yu Qinghuai was in excellent mental shape. He never got caught up in needless self-doubt, and his motto was that he wouldn't indulge anyone. Anyone who messed with him got taken down, no exceptions.

His ex-fiance cheated on him with his beloved first love before they were even married. Yu Qinghuai showed up with a secretly filmed video and confronted them, holding out his hand. "Five million, or I'll slap you twice."

His ex-fiance chose the five million. Yu Qinghuai promptly sold the video to the media, then gave him the two slaps anyway.

When his agent paid for smear articles to bring him down and boost the beloved first love, Yu Qinghuai secretly recorded evidence of the agent's crimes and forced a mutual downfall. Then, when it was all over, he suddenly added, "I could keep this under wraps. How about you give me some money?"

He didn't care if the whole internet hated him. Whether there was money in it for him, that he cared about very much.

His wealthy older brother transferred him a million yuan to humiliate him, saying, "Take the money and stay away from my little brother." Yu Qinghuai's eyes lit up. "Big bro, how about a little more?" Then, behind his back, he quietly used the money to buy shares in the man's company.

In this absurd, melodramatic world, Yu Qinghuai never followed the script. He charged ahead like a runaway dump truck, with just two goals: take people down and get paid.

He invested all the money he made into businesses and startups. Strangely enough, in this cold and heartless world, he gradually rekindled the spark of a dream he'd once had.

While others searched for a turning point in the original plot, he searched for business opportunities;

While others wondered how to escape a love triangle that left them emotionally and physically battered, he considered how to poach the key technical talent from the protagonist's company;

While others fell in love with the new male lead, he opened his eyes every morning and fell in love with the growing balance in his phone.

He thought his life was pretty good now. He had dreams, hope, and people to yell at. Most importantly, he had money.

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Two months after transmigrating, he was invited to appear on a dating reality show. The script cast him as the villainous male supporting character, there to make the beloved real young master shine. He happened to be short on startup funds, so he agreed without hesitation.

So what if he was supposed to be the foil? He'd foil him so hard he'd be burned to a crisp.

He'd read the original plot. Four of the five male guests on the dating show would later have scandals that ruined their careers, and there was plenty of material to roast them with. Roast them every day, collect his appearance fee afterward. What a deal.

The only one he could never bring himself to go too hard on was the fifth guest.

The kid was an unknown, unpopular actor with a face so stunning it belonged at the very top. He was shy, stammered, and kept to himself. Every time he saw Yu Qinghuai, he'd blush, his bright eyes blinking at him.

Yu Qinghuai: "What are you looking at?"

Huaisu: "You're handsome."

Later, they met again at the negotiating table in a corporate battle. Yu Qinghuai watched the other man, cool-faced in a suit as he flipped through the contract, and saw someone completely different from the person on the show.

Yu Qinghuai: "Were you pretending on the show?"

Huaisu's face suddenly turned red. "No. I just get, get nervous whenever I see you."

Halfway through their negotiations, the young CEO across the table suddenly looked up and asked timidly, "After we poach the key people from your fiance's company, can I be your fiance?"

[Pure-hearted, love-struck top x Sharp-tongued, career-minded bottom]

Theme: Be the master of your own life