Making a Million a Night Before the Fantasy System Expires

Also known as The Desire Settlement

When Xu Zhiwei was eighteen, she became bound to a Fantasy Settlement System.

The rules: Whenever someone develops a certain kind of affection for her, she can lie back and count the money.

The good news: She really is quite pretty.

The bad news: She was busy studying for her college entrance exams and found the System too noisy, so she muted it for ten years.

At twenty-eight, the System finally popped up with a notice that her term was ending.

"Three months left. Current total earnings: 3,000 yuan. The Host next door has already bought a planet, and you can't even afford a bathroom."

Xu Zhiwei stared at her bankbook in silence for a long time.

*

To help her turn things around in three months, the System picked a top-tier target for her:

Her company's supposedly "emotionless" CTO, Cheng Jia.

To make this cold-faced boss think of her in a meaningful way, Xu Zhiwei began testing the waters like crazy.

But Cheng Jia was as steady as a mountain. He looked at her with even less interest than he gave a corrupted Excel spreadsheet.

Xu Zhiwei: "System, isn't this target a little too difficult?"

System: "Don't worry. There's a surprise tonight."

*

Xu Zhiwei was completely stunned.

Could the vague figure she'd repeatedly dreamed about over the years really be the same Cheng Jia who'd reprimanded her at work that day?

Overwhelmed by shock and complicated emotions, she gritted her teeth and submitted a custom request in full view of everyone:

[The dream that left the deepest impression on me recently]

The man on the other side of the screen paused slightly, his jaw tightening.

Xu Zhiwei watched him, her heart inexplicably beating faster.

This feeling of control and reversal was kind of addictive.

*

Cheng Jia had two secrets.

The first: He was bound to a System.

Through it, he had not only amassed enormous wealth, but could also glimpse what other people imagined about him at certain moments.

And the only thing he was obsessed with was the part involving Xu Zhiwei.

The second secret:

He had been secretly in love with Xu Zhiwei for a very, very long time.

*

[Bonus scene]

The project presentation was over, and only two people remained in the conference room.

Xu Zhiwei turned off the projector, picked up the desk phone, and dialed his direct line.

The call connected, and a brief silence spread between them.

She looked through the glass at the sudden deepening of his gaze and spoke softly:

"Mr. Cheng."

"That custom feature of yours that's been on hiatus for a long time..."

She paused, her tone gentle.

"Let's continue tonight."

Trying out a new story with a similar vibe

Two Hundred Years of Underworld Outsourcing

People in the living world burn incense at little temples and churches and make wishes for children, wealth, and love.

They don't know those wishes become outsourcing orders, dispatched to the wish-fulfillment registry in the underworld.

Gu Dongqing is a star salesperson.

Her best friend calculates karma, an expert cuts costs, and the boss negotiates merit-sharing. This agency has been running for over two hundred years and handles more than eighty percent of outsourcing orders across the Asia-Pacific region.

Their job is to make "impossible" wishes come true at the lowest possible cost, just enough to count.

But every wish comes at a price. Some pay with their lifespan, some with their memories, and some with the merit they would have earned in their next life.

Some people don't live long enough to learn what the price is.

So they keep taking orders.

Until the new intern ghost, Lu Baichuan, disturbed the peace of the wish-fulfillment registry.

Every ghost knew his arrival was driven by ulterior motives.

But none of them guessed that Gu Dongqing was the object of those motives.

The next book with the most advance interest

The Villain Woos the Heroine by Starting Off Unlucky

The first time Lin Ruxue came down the mountain, she learned a lesson: Never save strangers on the roadside, or you'll have bad luck.

Oh, of course, she wouldn't be the unlucky one. The other person would.

Choking while eating, falling into a ditch while walking, getting hit by bird droppings on a sunny day, having an umbrella break three times in the rain, even her chickens chasing him around to peck him.

In all her life, Lin Ruxue had never met anyone so unlucky.

What baffled her even more was that although this man was plagued by bad luck and covered in wounds, he stubbornly refused to leave.

When she asked why, he said, "To repay your kindness."

Repay her kindness.

Lin Ruxue guiltily turned her face away.

If he knew she'd saved him only because she was afraid he'd go complain to her master and extort her, would he cling to her even more?

She sat on her bed and thought seriously about it all night. Then she made a momentous decision.

She would become a villain, just like those people who bullied him.

Then he ought to give up on repaying her, right?

If she was going to be a villain, she might as well become the greatest in the world.

Not a sneaky little villain who did bad things in secret, but one who acted openly and made sure everyone knew she was a villain.

The kind no one dared mention the words "repay your kindness" around.

So she got started.

First, she'd take this unlucky guy down the mountain and defeat every villain organization one by one.

Her logic was simple: There were so many villain organizations. If she took out all the others, she'd naturally be number one.

*

In his previous life, He Qinghuan was a demonic mastermind who controlled people's minds with gu worms and plunged the whole world into chaos.

He was in the middle of torturing someone to death when a white dart flew at him. He died.

He died for no apparent reason and didn't even see who killed him.

After being reborn, he tracked down the person who'd thrown the dart: Lin Ruxue, a naive young woman on her first trip down the mountain.

He acted pitiful and played weak, infiltrating her sect just to wait for a chance to take revenge.

But this woman was too strong, overwhelmingly so. He calculated every twist of fate, and she casually set everything right.

He used gu to manipulate someone into killing another, and ended up being the one hunted.

He set a trap and fell into it himself.

He sent gu worms to control her, but they crawled into the wrong person, and he became the victim again.

He Qinghuan felt less like he was taking revenge and more like he was undergoing tribulations.

At long last, he planted a gu worm in her body, altered her desires, and amplified her wicked thoughts.

Sure enough, she changed.

She went from "I want to work hard to become number one in the world" to "I want to become the greatest villain in the world."

Then she began her own self-righteous villainous campaign: She would defeat every villain organization one by one and become number one.

Those villain organizations were all the subordinates he'd painstakingly recruited in his previous life!

He Qinghuan tried to stop her, but couldn't.

His former subordinates couldn't beat her, so they started resenting him. "Why did you bring the Lin Demon here?"

So they took shots at him every day, leaving him covered in wounds and far worse off than in his previous life.

Then one day, the System told him that Lin Ruxue was the heroine of this book.

And he was the villain she'd personally kill in the final chapter.

As the villain, the closer he got to her, the more misfortune would befall him.

His reason told him to run.

But his legs wouldn't listen.

...That's right.

He was here to kill her.

He hadn't gotten his revenge yet, so how could he leave?

Besides, if Lin Ruxue could be the heroine,

why couldn't he, He Qinghuan, take the villain's place and become the male lead?

The System reminded him: The man loved by the heroine is the male lead.

He narrowed his eyes.

Got it.

The wooing begins.

Theme: In a world where you're constantly being watched, hold fast to your own agency