A Washed-Up Writer Named Savings Over a Hundred Million Has Resolved to Kill the World

[Pinned Content Warning: This is an absurdist comedy with an abnormal thought process, chuunibyou antics, erratic pacing, utter randomness, and no logic. Read at your own risk!]

My name is Savings Over a Hundred Million.

I live in a chaotic world of alternate dimensions.

The wind never stops, the sun never shines, and disasters are everywhere. Trouble lurks around every corner. Life is a complete mess.

Although my name has a lovely meaning, I’m poor. I don’t understand why there can’t be one more rich person!

Everyone says I’m strange, extreme, and wildly emotional.

They’re right.

My daily routine is getting into heated arguments with them, cursing their entire family, then giving them a slap with my eyes.

They don’t like me, so I’m often unemployed.

When I was working at a fruit stand, there was a domineering CEO who came to buy tangerines every day. He’d take forever choosing, then buy just one and haggle over the price.

I mocked him: If you want to buy it, buy it. If not, get lost.

That day, the CEO bought the fruit stand, and I got lost.

When I was working at a breakfast shop, I was so sleepy that I accidentally put a customer who’d ordered a tea egg into a bag and sold him to the next customer.

That day, I got a pair of rose-gold handcuffs for human trafficking.

When I was working at a ski resort, I decided to turn over a new leaf and work hard, giving every customer my very best.

So, with my encouragement, a timid little snail went down the advanced course 579 times in just one hour.

That day, I was condemned by the entire internet for bullying a coworker and making them critically ill. I was hunted down by the snail clan.

During that time, even the passing Ah Huang sneered at me.

A loser is a loser.

Damn it! I hate this garbage world and all the garbage people in it. I hope the planet blows up soon, and I’m doing my best to make it happen. I’ve decided that once I’ve saved enough to buy weapons, I’ll kill this world.

But when I return to my condemned house, pick up my phone with its screen split into three sections, and mooch off the internet of the assassin lady next door, I enter an online world where no one knows me...

And I become a cheerful little ray of sunshine, spreading warmth and encouragement everywhere and telling everyone how beautiful the world is.

Wherever there’s someone feeling down, I’m there.

Later on,

The CEO who bought just one tangerine won back his lover.

The tea egg customer who got stuffed into a bag found his family.

The snail coworker who was afraid of skiing became a rising star in the skiing world, representing the planet in competitions and winning medal after medal.

They were all grateful to Teacher Cun. They all liked Teacher Cun. They said Teacher Cun was a true angel!

In response, I said...

What the hell do you mean, angel?

Isn’t it all because I have a stupid passive skill that absorbs other people’s negative emotions, then makes them affect me ten times as strongly?

As I typed “You’re amazing, sweetie” on my phone, I flipped off the sky. Hurry up and explode, planet. I can’t wait to see the world end!!

Reading Guide:

The story is told in third person.

Savings Over a Hundred Million is the female lead’s full name. Yes, her full name!

The male lead has fewer scenes early on. He’s a long-haired, well-endowed, flirtatious mother figure.

A collection of episodic stories in an alternate setting. Anything can happen. The protagonists are firmly BG, but side characters may have other orientations. Everything serves the plot, not logic, so please steer clear if that bothers you.

The story was inspired by the author’s own Xiaohongshu post. The first draft of the blurb was written on March 22, 2024, and a screenshot has been saved as proof.

In the bitter north wind, the unemployed vegetable-oil demon, who’d been out of work for three years, sat by the river with a plain steamed bun bought with every last cent she had. She decided to eat it, then throw herself into the river. An elderly man with white hair stopped in front of her. “Child, do you want to make something of yourself?” The vegetable-oil demon wiped away her tears and traded the steamed bun for a manual. From this moment on, she would live like a proper person.

Now, behold her plan to get rich:

① Completed fantasy romance, The Darkening Guide for the Second Male Lead: transmigrate into a book, older woman/younger man romance, sweet treat;

② Completed fantasy romance, After Descending to the Mortal Realm, My Nemesis Became My Wrench: immortals descend to the mortal realm with secret identities, bickering couples never go out of style;

③ Completed contemporary suspense, Guava Love Songs Really Matter for a Comeback: modern setting, special abilities, light mystery, chuunibyou saves the world;

④ Upcoming contemporary romance, The Mysterious and Aloof Sister’s Application to Raise a Bratty Boy: mysterious, aloof older sister and an annoying, clingy younger brother;

⑤ Upcoming fantasy romance, No Falling for the Same Face Twice: one female lead, multiple male leads, a new spin on the body-double trope and the brothers-as-a-meal trope.

Theme: Make yourself happy. That’s what gives life meaning.