While waiting for a friend, unlucky Qi Jichuan scratched a lottery ticket on a whim and won a fortune of two hundred thousand. He realized three things.
First, he hadn't been unlucky lately. Second, his friend was walking toward him with what looked like a [0/100] floating over their head, visible only to him. Third, the streams of comments passing before his eyes seemed visible only to him too.
[Yu He was the fastest one, right? It only took him three days to become friends with Qi Jichuan. At this rate, he'll probably get Qi Jichuan's luck within a week.]
[Bro, you still don't understand Qi Jichuan. See that zero out of a hundred? That heartless jerk hasn't fallen for him at all.]
[The childhood friend who likes being the little spoon has a score of zero, the old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud has a score of zero, the green-tea roommate has a score of zero... And you think Yu He can win him over in a week? Ha, no way.]
[Holy crap, Qi Jichuan really is the hardest man to steal luck from.]
Oh. After reading the comments, Qi Jichuan understood.
So the rich young master who acted like he had his nose in the air in public but clung to people in private, the company president who always complained that something was improper but obediently went along with it, and the aloof campus heartthrob who kept wandering around in skimpy clothes despite protesting were all mission-takers who had signed contracts with Systems to steal his luck.
And not a single one had succeeded so far.
Qi Jichuan stared at the lottery ticket in his hand, utterly baffled.
So he had enough luck to spare that other people could steal it?
And if none of them had succeeded, why was he still so unlucky?
Could they be stealing his bad luck instead?
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Qi Jichuan is the hardest-to-win-over NPC in the initial world, World No. 0000, and one of the Space-Time Administration's biggest draws. All the Systems have to do is tag their livestreams with #WinOverQiJichuan# to attract a huge amount of attention and popularity.
They sign up native mission-takers from World No. 0000 one after another, sending them to win Qi Jichuan over and steal his luck.
The native challengers: Forget that I'm straight. What's there to win over about Qi Jichuan, with his ordinary looks, ordinary figure, and terrible luck?
The native challengers, after spending some time with Qi Jichuan: Right, I don't want to, but Qi Jichuan says he's straight too. We're good buddies, so what's wrong with cuddling under a blanket and chatting, wait, why is the score still zero?!
Bro, didn't you say we were good friends? We cuddled under a quilt and chatted for ages. You couldn't even spare me a sympathy point?
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On the day World No. 0000 was permanently shut down due to the strain it was under, Qi Jichuan's score finally changed to [1/100].
A composed top whose bad luck has become part of everyday life x bottom
1. Top-perspective, one-on-one story with a stock-picking romance setup.
Theme: After the storm comes the rainbow.
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