Lu PingAn had actually been somewhat slack all along.
He was a terminally ill patient waiting to die, liable to drop dead at any moment. Was anyone really expecting him to strive and struggle for the sake of his descendants? Uh, seeing as he seemed not to have any descendants, he truly had no reason to work hard.
At first, the closest thing he had to a goal was probably giving his parents a better life. For the current Lu PingAn, that was not difficult at all.
Lu PingAn knew that an astronomical inheritance would probably be a disaster for his parents.
Therefore, once his death was confirmed, a rather generous pension would be regularly deposited into his parents' accounts, while professionals he had hired would look after and care for them on a regular basis.
He did not really have much to worry about. Nor did he have much to pursue.
It was not that he did not work hard. He simply lacked the "motivation" and "habit" to do so.
He was a terminally ill patient waiting to die, an unlucky bastard who had been lying flat for a long time. Even after the pressure of survival had eased considerably, he still retained the inertia of his old way of life.
"I don't even know how far I can go. I'll just take things one day at a time."
That mindset inevitably lingered in Lu PingAn's subconscious, especially when Life Points displayed a countdown to his death.
He would complete his work properly, do his best to handle the current crisis, try to make more friends, and constantly improve himself—but throughout it all, it was still merely "I'll do it," rather than "I want to do it."
Especially after he had made arrangements for the "pension," he had even