The fluorescent glow of the phone screen flickered faintly in the dim rental room.
[Dear valued user, in light of your recent good credit standing, you have been specially granted approval for a high-limit inclusive online loan...]
[Lightning IOU] Esteemed user ending in 0987, you have been approved for an emergency reserve fund of 50,000 yuan. Funds arrive within three minutes. Click the link to withdraw now...
Before Ling Xiaodong could even swipe away the banner, a barrage of notifications popped up across the top of the screen.
[Easy Spend] You have an exclusive reserve fund waiting to be claimed, with a maximum limit of 100,000 yuan and daily interest as low as 0.05%...
[Instant Gold Bar] Credit checks ignored. Blacklisted users accepted. Instant approval with ID card. Helping you through difficult times...
The incessant notification chimes of spam messages sounded piercing and grating in the silent room.
Ling Xiaodong frowned deeply, a flash of profound contempt and disdain passing through his eyes.
Back when he had ruled the Golden Triangle, he had controlled Underworld's billion-dollar empire.
Murder and robbery, organ trafficking, the shady businesses behind telecom scam compounds—those were all low-level tricks he had long since grown tired of.
As for these online loan schemes targeting poor people at the bottom of society, he knew how deep the waters ran and how vicious the traps were well enough to recite them backward with his eyes closed!
Ling Xiaodong snorted and decisively pressed the lock button with his thumb, tossing the phone directly onto the yellowed bed.
Yet the dim room remained quiet for less than five minutes...
Ling Xiaodong's face shifted uncertainly in the darkness before he finally irritably scratched his head.
He grabbed the phone back and lit up the screen again.
There was no helping it. Even