[Welcome to a world of wealth and luxury, where tough, neglected high school graduates kicked out of home and forced into grueling jobs get a chance to become tycoons.]
Wen Ruanuan binds herself to a cash-back System overnight.
“Spend two billion within a year to get it back as cash. Any unspent amount will be wiped out when the time runs out.”
This... Wen Ruanuan, whose savings have never reached three digits, starts thinking with her poor person's brain about how to spend money.
For example, buy two grilled sausages, eat one and throw the other away; eat only the filling of a meat bun; take only air-conditioned buses; and ride only D-prefix trains, never the old green trains... She does the math, but the two billion hasn't budged an inch.
Help... How do I spend this money?
The next second, the System says, “Host, you can't spend the money on yourself.”
Wen Ruanuan is stunned. “What? I have to spend it on other people?”
Tears stream down her face. Gritting her teeth, she says, “Fine. I'll do it.”
And so, in the city of Shanghai, a kind, beautiful, gullible, unloved real heiress kicked out of her wealthy family appears with nothing but money.
She asks everyone she meets, “Do you need money? You can even scam me. Please, I'm begging you.”
A street vendor points at a shabby scroll. “This is a rare treasure...”
Wen Ruanuan: “I'll buy it.”
A popular girl from her high school days: “I need a million to start my business.”
Wen Ruanuan: “Transferred.”
A homeless man on the street: “I'm a genius scientist. My technology will change the world.”
Wen Ruanuan: “How much? A hundred million? Okay.”
Homeless man: “...”
The scammers go crazy. “This girl is way too easy to fool!”
Until...
The street vendor's shabby scroll turns out to be a rare ancient painting.
The popular girl's company goes public, earning a hundredfold return.
The homeless man's tech company rings the bell on the Nasdaq.
Wen Ruanuan watches the balance in her account grow like a snowball and falls into deep thought: You can get rich by being scammed?
... Was the reason I never got rich before that nobody tried to scam me?
In this patchwork world full of protagonists,
after Wen Ruanuan is “scammed out of two billion,” every protagonist treats her like a precious treasure.
The beautiful but tragic heroine rises to become a movie star and brags to everyone, “Ruanuan is the only person who's ever invested in me, and the only one I won't cross.”
The innocent-looking heroine wrests a huge chunk of the overbearing CEO's wealth for her and chokes out, “She's the only light in my life.”
A top-tier young master confesses in public: “Even the rarest treasures in the world don't compare to a fraction of her.”
The homeless man rings the opening bell on the Nasdaq and says just one thing in his interview: “Without her, I wouldn't be where I am today.”
A year later, she's worth tens of billions.
And surrounded by a group of powerful protagonists who adore her.
[Bonus Scene]
System: “Host, I'm your cash-back System.”
Wen Ruanuan's eyes light up. “How much startup money are you giving me?”
System: “Getting something for nothing is shameful.”
Wen Ruanuan: “...So you're broke?”
The System says sheepishly, “Two billion...”
“How much?”
“It's, it's a little small, two billion.” The System's voice is barely audible as it tries to explain, “I know it's too little. I can't compare with the other Systems...”
Wen Ruanuan murmurs dazedly, “Small, yeah, it's a little small. But I don't mind...”
Theme: Learning to restrain one's desires
