Jiangcheng University, Building 7 of the male dormitories, Room 510.
It was already eight in the morning, and quite a few classes had started. Yet the four boys in the dorm were all still sprawled in bed, sound asleep, with no intention of getting up for class.
Perhaps this was an essential part of every college student's life: skipping eight a.m. classes!
After all, they had just endured three hard years of high school. In the relaxed environment of university, anyone who could resist indulging themself was practically a saint.
Suddenly, one of the boys snapped his eyes open and sat bolt upright in bed.
The sudden voice in his head and the light screen before his eyes instantly jolted Su Bai awake.
The Indulgent God-tier Tycoon System has been bound. This system is designed to help the host enjoy a life of freedom and indulgence. Any indulgent behavior will earn system rewards. Additionally, all spending related to indulgence will receive random cashback ranging from 2 to 10 times the amount spent! Note: The system operates with integrity. All acquired funds come from legal sources!
Holy shit, was this the legendary System Brother?
Su Bai was thrilled.
Then he remembered that he had overslept and skipped class. Did that count as indulgence?
The moment that thought arose, the system prompted him again:
Ding! Detected that the host overslept and skipped class. Cash reward: +1,000 yuan.
Su Bai hurriedly checked the notification on his phone.
"[China Construction Bank] Your account ending in 8577 has received 1,000 yuan. Balance: 2,200 yuan. Click for details on popular wealth management products..."
The account had originally contained only the 1,200 yuan in living expenses his aunt had sent him yesterday. He was the textbook definition of a broke college student.
But now, 1,000 yuan had appeared out of nowhere. His assets had literally doubled.
In an instant, Su Bai came up with an indulgent idea, one that would also test just how good the system really was.
He quickly got out of bed, dressed, and ran to the cafeteria to order himself a whole table full of breakfast.
Spicy hot pot, fried chicken cutlets, braised duck legs, snail rice noodles...
Eating something this greasy so early in the morning definitely counted as indulgence, right?
Ding! Detected that the host binged on breakfast. Spent 43 yuan. Tenfold cashback triggered: +430 yuan.
A bank deposit notification lit up on his phone at the same time.
"Su Bai? Having breakfast?"
Hearing someone speak to him, Su Bai turned toward the voice.
It was his counselor, Xia Lin.
Though she was called a counselor, she had actually just graduated from her senior year and was pursuing a master's degree in the same major. She worked part-time as a counselor.
Su Bai greeted her politely. "Good morning, Director Xia."
"Such a lavish breakfast this early in the morning. Be careful not to get indigestion," Xia Lin reminded him thoughtfully.
"It's fine. I'm planning to work out later, so I need to eat more for energy."
"Oh, I see. Then enjoy your meal. I need to get back to work. Bye-bye~"
"See you, Director Xia."
Xia Lin did not linger. After a brief exchange, she went off to handle her own business.
She remembered that Su Bai's class had a political theory course this morning, which meant he had skipped class.
She realized it, but did not mention it.
These days, what was so unusual about a college student skipping class? As long as they could hold it together during finals and their grades were not too ugly, it was fine.
If she really wanted to be strict about it, she herself had skipped plenty of classes back then.
Her management style was fairly relaxed, and she was a beautiful, generous senior student. Since the semester began more than a month ago, she had been well liked by the students.
As for Su Bai claiming he was going to work out, that was naturally just polite talk.
Working out required too much self-discipline. It did not fit the Indulgent System at all.
After enjoying a satisfying meal, Su Bai returned to the dorm and turned on his computer.
His roommates were still sleeping soundly. Playing games at a time like this might wake them, so he might as well watch some web dramas.
He had recently saved quite a few shows he wanted to watch, both domestic and foreign, but had not gotten around to them. This was the perfect chance.
After watching for a while, the system notification sounded again:
Ding! Detected that the host is watching dramas during this wonderful time that should have been spent studying. How indulgent! Reward: +2,000 yuan.
So I'm getting paid to watch dramas?
Not bad.
Su Bai immersed himself in the plot.
Time passed quietly, and soon it was past nine in the morning.
His roommates finally began waking up one after another. Some were preparing to attend their second class of the morning.
The freshmen had only just started university, so most of them still had some shame. They would at least avoid skipping classes scheduled at reasonable hours.
Of course, some went because they could see the goddess they had been dreaming about.
Wang Haoran, whose bed was next to Su Bai's, did not have class. After getting up, he opened his laptop and launched a Gacha game.
Yes, Wang Haoran was a seasoned anime fan. But compared to those over-the-top Japanese anime obsessives who wore T-shirts printed with anime characters, used strange body pillows, and constantly spouted Japanese-style lines, he was far more low-key.
He looked like an ordinary male college student.
When he had nothing to do, he liked quietly watching anime alone and playing Gacha games—absolutely refusing to spend money.
He had a pretty good personality and was the harmless type.
Since school started more than a month ago, Wang Haoran was the roommate Su Bai got along with best.
Mainly because the other two had personalities that were hard to describe. Relying on their family money, they often did absurd things that left the two normal guys speechless.
Seeing that his roommates were all awake, Su Bai closed the web drama.
He was tired of watching shows, so he decided to play some games.
He logged into League of Legends. The moment he opened the interface, an advertisement for discounted skins filled the screen.
Normally, Su Bai would have closed the ad without a second thought.
Skins had nothing to do with a broke guy like him. They did not add attack power, anyway.
The free skins the game gave out were good enough.
But now that he had unlocked the Indulgent System, Su Bai changed his mind.
If he bought a whole bunch of game skins at once, that counted as indulgence too, right?
After receiving confirmation from the system, Su Bai selected a huge pile of skins he had liked for a long time but had resisted buying to save money.
He had a total of 4,630 yuan in his bank account now.
He needed to spend as much of it as possible. After all, the system gave cashback immediately. The more he spent, the more he got back.
God Fist! Spirit Blossom! And those championship skins returning for a limited time—anything he liked, he bought, bought, bought!
In the end, he got the total price up to 4,396 yuan.
Not bad. That was quite an auspicious number.
Ding! Detected that the host made an indulgent purchase of game skins. Fivefold cashback triggered: + yuan.
The balance in his bank account had already risen to over yuan.
This rate of making money is insane, Su Bai thought.
Su Bai attended Jiangcheng University, a nationally key Project 985 university, where he studied the currently popular major of Computer Science.
Even graduate students in their major who found high-paying jobs in the internet industry after graduation might not take home 22,000 yuan a month.
And that was not even counting the fact that this was simply what Su Bai had earned from messing around for one morning.
As his principal increased, Su Bai could choose even more extravagant indulgent spending. His wealth would snowball, allowing him to earn faster and faster.
Not to mention that the system had said deeper acts of indulgence would bring rewards beyond cash: luxury cars, famous watches, villas... and even more amazing hidden functions.
So this is the life of a tycoon? It really is god-tier and rich as hell!
Su Bai was excited for a while, but he quickly calmed down. He was the type with strong mental fortitude.
Enough talk about getting rich. First, he would play a game and experience the skins he had just bought.
The dorm room had bunk beds with desks underneath. Wang Haoran had been scrolling through Genshin for a while and stood up to stretch. By chance, he saw Su Bai's game screen next to him and was immediately stunned.
"Holy shit, Brother Bai, when did you buy so many skins? They must add up to over a thousand, right?"
"Yeah. I spent more than four thousand in total just now."
"???"
Wang Haoran looked completely dumbfounded. What was going on? Su Bai had always been a zero-spend player, a freeloader just like him. Why had he suddenly started spending money like crazy?
Su Bai smiled. "Fine, I'll come clean. I'm actually a second-generation rich too."
"Wait, why did you say 'too'..." Wang Haoran suddenly realized something. "Fuck, so I'm the only broke guy in this dorm?"
Before Su Bai could say anything, Wang Haoran grinned and scratched his head. "All right, that's actually pretty good. So Brother Bai, you're loaded too. That makes sense. Otherwise, those other two guys in our dorm are such bizarre specimens that they've completely warped my impression of rich people."
Su Bai merely smiled without saying anything. Living in a university dorm meant running into idiots sometimes. This was a country of 1.4 billion people—if you did not run into a few idiots, how could humanity's genetic diversity be properly demonstrated?
"Brother Bai, you have no idea. While you were out last night, Chu Mingzhe and Xue Tao got into another fight."
Chu Mingzhe and Xue Tao were the other two roommates.
"Why?"
"Over a woman, of course. Xue Tao insisted that the girl Chu Mingzhe liked was only pretending to be proper, and that behind the scenes she was no different from other girls. So they started arguing."
"...But if I remember correctly, that girl does not pay Chu Mingzhe any attention at all?" Su Bai recalled.
"Exactly. It's just unrequited love. The fact that they could fight over her is unbelievable."
Creatures like simps were not rare in any era or place.
Su Bai simply treated it as an amusing story.
Still, the dorm where the girl Chu Mingzhe was pursuing lived was rather interesting.
Of the four girls, three were exceptionally attractive, each with her own distinct style.
Their classmates called it the "Goddess Dormitory."
The one Chu Mingzhe liked was named Chen Yusheng. She was the cold, mature beauty type.
Like them, she was also a first-year student.
She stood over 1.7 meters tall and had a pair of shapely, stunningly long legs.
Her icy, beautiful face was even prettier than a celebrity's.
Like Su Bai, she studied Computer Science. Rumor had it that she had released her own open-source project online back in high school. Not long after the semester started, a professor had already invited her into a laboratory. She was unquestionably a top student.
She had attracted the attention of countless teachers and students ever since military training.
Although she usually wore an expressionless face, there were always people trying to flatter and court her.
Yet she rejected every pursuer without exception, declaring, "I don't want to date, and I won't accept other people's kindness for free."
Perhaps that was why Chu Mingzhe found her so special.
Xue Tao, on the other hand, believed Chen Yusheng was putting on an act.
That way of thinking was actually understandable. Everyone had a side they did not show others.
Su Bai was not interested in the conflict between his roommates and merely listened for entertainment.
Soon, he turned his attention back to the game.
He played a match of top-lane Vayne, then another match of mid-lane Yasuo.
Across the two games, he went a combined 1-17.
"Hey, what the hell? Silver rank in this game is way too brutal. I can't take this. I'm ordering a gaming companion!"
No sooner said than done, Su Bai opened a gaming companion app.
He selected the "League of Legends" category and sorted the listings by price, from highest to lowest.
Hiring an absurdly expensive gaming companion was another form of indulgence.
But when Su Bai took a closer look, the highest-priced companions were mostly professional players or former pros.
Skip, skip. They were all men, so there was nothing interesting about them.
What was the point of spending a huge sum to have a man play games with him?
He might as well directly queue with Wang Haoran. Two Silver warriors, bravely venturing into the world.
Su Bai decisively selected "Female companions only" in the filters.
This time, the results were filled with dazzling photos of beautiful women in influencer-style makeup.
Much better!
After browsing for a while, Su Bai took a liking to a female gaming companion with the ID "Yu Xie."
Unlike the other companions, she had not even uploaded a heavily edited photo of herself.
She had only left an audio introduction.
Her voice was incredibly pleasant. She sounded young, yet had the cool, mature quality of an aloof beauty, making people's imaginations run wild.
Unfortunately, she had made it clear in her introduction that she did not do anything risqué. She only played games.
Her listed price was 200 yuan per hour.
That was already close to what ordinary professional players charged.
So the question was, what gave this young gaming companion the confidence to charge such an outrageous price?
The answer was simple: her rank was Challenger with over a thousand points on the Korean server!
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