Background System

"Zhuang Xin, go buy me a pack of cigarettes."

"Zhuang Xin, print these documents."

"Zhuang Xin, help me park the car."

In the busy office, Zhuang Xin clearly held the same position as everyone else, yet he had become little more than an errand boy.

Serving tea and water—every task was dumped on him.

Just because he was new and had a low level of education, they could bully him like this?

"Zhuang Xin, what's going on? Where are the clothes I asked you to take for pressing yesterday?"

"They're here, Sister Xiang..." Zhuang Xin grabbed a set of clothes from beside his seat, rushed into the office, and placed them on the desk. Liu Xiang wore a black short skirt and business attire, with light makeup that gave her a seductive air.

She was their manager. Because she was sleeping with the company's vice president, she strutted around the company like she owned the place.

"Sister Xiang, I told you yesterday that I needed to take the afternoon off. It's already noon now, so..." Zhuang Xin handed over the leave request he had written.

Liu Xiang impatiently crumpled the request into a ball and tossed it aside. "I'm telling you, no leave today. Get back to work."

"But that's not what you said yesterday, Sister Xiang..."

"Yesterday was yesterday, today is today. What, are you planning to skip work?"

"I..."

"What do you mean, 'I'? If you've got the guts, then leave. Can you afford to lose three times your salary?" Liu Xiang curled her lips disdainfully, not even bothering to look at him properly.

Zhuang Xin clenched his fists but said nothing. He merely took out his phone and walked outside.

There were two messages on his phone, both from his blind date.

"Why aren't you here yet? I've been waiting forever."

"Coming!"

Zhuang Xin replied with two words and rushed downstairs. So what if he skipped work? It was only a few hundred yuan.

Besides, he had already been planning to resign.

With that in mind, he hurried down, hailed a taxi, and headed for Bihai Bay Café.

When he arrived at the café, Zhuang Xin compared the photos on his phone and finally spotted a girl in a spaghetti-strap dress by the window. She was fairly pretty, about a seven out of ten. Her smile had a clean, refreshing quality that made people unconsciously look twice.

"You're the one my mom arranged for me?"

"That's me. My name is Zhuang Xin."

"I heard you're very rich. Your family owns two buildings. Is that true?"

"Two buildings? This..."

"My mom told me. She also said your family... runs a company and makes tens of millions in net income every year."

Zhuang Xin: ???

My family is that rich? How come I don't know about it?

"Have you misunderstood something? My family doesn't have any of that. We only have a self-built two-story house, and we don't own a company. My mom does run a small convenience store."

The girl's mouth fell open in shock. "How is that possible? Are you kidding me?"

"I'm not..." Zhuang Xin shook his head. "Take out your blind date profile and look at it. Is the person in the photo me?"

The girl took it out and looked. The photo was indeed Zhuang Xin's, but the name wasn't Zhuang Xin. It was Chen Baiwan. Seeing that name and the age of thirty-eight, then looking at Zhuang Xin, who was no more than twenty, she was dumbfounded.

"So it's not you?"

"No, it's not me. The profiles must have gotten mixed up."

"You wasted so much of my time for nothing? How annoying." Furious, the girl grabbed the glass of plain water on the table and splashed it directly onto Zhuang Xin's face. "You run a convenience store? Poor bastard, and you think you're worthy of going on blind dates?"

"You..." Zhuang Xin sprang to his feet, anger burning in his chest.

This woman had clearly contacted him and asked him to come on a blind date.

Yet once she discovered there had been a mistake, her attitude became this awful.

"What are you looking at? Want to hit me? Fine, let everyone see whether you're about to hit a woman!" The girl grabbed her handbag and slung it over her shoulder. "Pah! You got my hopes up for nothing. I thought I'd met a rich guy."

Then she took out her phone and sent a voice message to her mother. "Mom, what kind of people are you picking for me? If A-Yao finds out, how are we supposed to get married later?"

"Don't set me up with all this random garbage in the future. I'm doing just fine on my own." After saying that, she angrily stood up and shoved Zhuang Xin. "Look at those cheap clothes you're wearing. Get lost!"

The girl left, leaving Zhuang Xin alone in the café. Looking at his soaking wet clothes, he could only curse his bad luck.

After paying for two cups of coffee, he walked outside and found that the taxi from earlier was still there. He walked over and said, "Driver, I need to go back..."

He had just taken out his phone, intending to pay online...

"Get out of the way!"

A furious roar rang out, and the crowd fell into chaos.

"What happened?"

When he turned around, he saw a BMW charging straight toward the taxi in front of him.

With blaring horns, the BMW speeding down the road crashed with a deafening bang...

The taxi was smashed to pieces, and its rear end swung under the tremendous force, striking Zhuang Xin.

Zhuang Xin was sent flying.

"Fuck, what a nuisance." A young man rushed out of the BMW, cursing as he charged at Zhuang Xin. He stomped on Zhuang Xin's stomach. "You dared go on a blind date with my girlfriend? You've got a death wish! You tried to put a green hat on me? I'll kill you!"

Agonizing pain spread through his body. Zhuang Xin curled up on the ground.

Though he was in unbearable pain, a strange sense of clarity emerged within his consciousness.

For a moment, he could not understand what was happening.

He gritted his teeth, desperately trying to shake away the strange thing in his mind, when he heard a cold chime.

Selection complete. Successfully obtained... Background 1: the sworn brother of Zhu Zuo, the real estate tycoon.

What was that sound?

I think I was just hit by a car.

Someone is beating me right now.

What exactly is happening?

I'm not going to be beaten to death, am I?

"Stop hitting him! Hey, hey, hey, what kind of grudge do you have? Keep beating him and he'll die!"

A crowd surrounded Zhuang Xin, pointing and whispering, but no one dared step forward.

Gift package loaded. You have obtained... Ultimate Fighting Technique.

"This guy's waist looks like it was broken in the crash. He's bleeding nonstop..."

"A-Yao, stop hitting him. You'll kill him!"

Ding. Background 2 activated: the only male heir of the Zhuang family, Juncheng's foremost family.

Zhuang Xin felt the pain in his waist intensify as blood continued to pour out. He was on the verge of breaking down.

He wanted to scream, but the pain left him unable to breathe. He could not make a sound.

Blood blurred his eyes, and he could not even see the face of the person beating him.

"Stop! What are you doing?"

"Kid, are you okay?"

Ding. Background 3 activated: fiancé of Nie Han'er, Huaguo's business prodigy.

Ding. Background 4 activated: rumored boyfriend of an idol singer.

As the final notification ended, the roar of countless engines rose from the street.

On this street where every inch of land was worth a fortune, time seemed to freeze in an instant.

Countless bodyguards in black suits surged in like a tide.

The surrounding crowd screamed and scattered at once.