I'm Still in High School, Yet a Game to Turn My Life Around Has Appeared

[Host has reached the ripe old age of thirty-seven. After failing to get into college, he decided to head to Haicheng for work. He toiled away for six months, only to end up laid off, battered and bruised, and back in his hometown of Wancheng, having achieved nothing.] [The life-reversal game has finished loading. Back in your hometown, you run into the childhood friend who lived next door. You’ve had little contact since she left for college in Hancheng.] [It’s been so long since you last saw each other that things feel a little awkward. You decide to politely invite her to lunch. Reward: 500 RMB.] Watching the class representative and childhood friend in front of him continue to nag him about turning in his homework, Chen Ci couldn’t help but fall into deep thought. Did this System show up too early? But as he continued completing missions, Chen Ci gradually realized that things were starting to get strange. There was the proud childhood friend he’d grown up playing with; The seemingly innocent, airheaded heiress to a well-known Wancheng company; The cool, aloof class monitor who had built a business empire from scratch; Wait a minute, System. You said I’d achieved nothing. So why are all these people connected to me?