Disclaimer: This story takes place in an unknown parallel world. No public health incident has occurred, so please do not associate it with reality.
An Wuyang's College Entrance Examination results were far from ideal.
On June 25, 2021, at 12:01 a.m., An Wuyang checked his College Entrance Examination results on the official website. His scores were as follows:
Hello, An Wuyang:
Chinese: 99
Mathematics: 99
Foreign Language: 138
Science: 101
Total Score: 437
Looking at his total score of only 437, An Wuyang was not surprised in the slightest. The result was entirely within his expectations.
An Wuyang silently considered his choice of major. The majors available to him with this score were simply impossible to describe, and most of them offered no bright prospects. Fortunately, however, An Wuyang's family was extremely wealthy, placing them firmly among the truly rich and powerful!
An Wuyang's family ran Wugengtian Pharmaceutical Group, a non-listed family business that had been established for more than forty years.
As far as he knew, Wugengtian Pharmaceutical Group earned at least half a small goal in annual profits—more than 50 million Xia Guo Yuan per year.
As the sole legal heir, An Wuyang did not actually care much about his poor College Entrance Examination results.
Did people in 2021 really still think—
Forget it!
There were some things better left unsaid for the sake of unity.
When it came to choosing a major, An Wuyang first ruled out pharmaceutical majors, which were closely related to the family business.
His total College Entrance Examination score was only 437. Even if he drank Dichlorvos, he could not possibly dream of getting into any top medical university.
Using the low-score elimination method, An Wuyang quickly ruled out all the majors that required high scores. In the end, he set his sights on Marketing Major.
Compared with the other unsuitable majors, Marketing Major could at least help him manage the marketing operations of the family business and prepare him for taking over the company in the future.
Once he had settled on his major, the next step was to screen the relevant universities.
Whether it was C9, E9, or even the lower-tier version of C9, none of them were options a student with a score in the four hundreds could even pretend to consider. An Wuyang would not have dreamed of such a thing, either.
His greatest strength was knowing his own limits!
An Wuyang initially screened universities that offered Marketing Major and limited his choices to the Southwest F4 region.
The so-called Southwest F4 region referred to four provinces and municipalities: Shengqing, Sichuan, Nanyun, and Qiangui.
He placed the universities in Shengqing at the very bottom of his list. Since he had a choice, An Wuyang did not want to stay in his hometown. He wanted to enjoy a little freedom!
Rongcheng in Sichuan was An Wuyang's first choice. Rongcheng and Shengqing were sister cities with similar levels of prosperity and similar food cultures, so he could integrate almost effortlessly.
More importantly, Rongcheng and Shengqing were only a mere 300 kilometers apart. By high-speed rail, he could get there in less than two hours.
This distance would give An Wuyang the freedom he wanted while also making it convenient for him to return quickly to Shengqing and take part in the family business.
As for Nanyun and Qiangui, they could only serve as backup choices.
Once he narrowed his university choices down to Rongcheng, the remaining options became extremely limited.
An Wuyang consulted the relevant 2020 admission scores and rankings, ignoring the choices between the First Undergraduate Batch and the Second Undergraduate Batch.
That was because, beginning this year—2021—the two would be combined into the Undergraduate Batch.
An Wuyang was only using the 2020 admission scores and rankings as a reference.
For example, Xicai University, a 985/211 Double First-Class university, had admitted science students from Shengqing in 2020 with a score cutoff of 567, with the ranking at around fifteenth thousand.
An Wuyang had only 437 points, and his ranking was beyond eighty thousand. There was no need to consider any Double First-Class university, right?
He could only look at Second-tier Universities, and even then, those at the very bottom. However, the universities at the bottom of the Second-tier Universities were almost all private institutions. An Wuyang had not made a final choice yet and planned to discuss it with his parents over breakfast.
An Wuyang had made up his mind. He first used his phone to turn off the bedroom light, then connected it to the charging cable before preparing to sleep.
Just as An Wuyang closed his eyes, he opened them again. It seemed he had heard something that was not really there?
Ding!
The Happy Life System has been successfully bound.
Congratulations, Host, on embarking on your happy life journey.
In the darkness, An Wuyang opened his eyes wide. He realized that this did not seem to be an auditory hallucination.
A light-blue interface had appeared in his mind, along with corresponding textual information explaining that he only needed to use his thoughts to communicate with the Happy Life System.
The system? An Wuyang tried calling out with his thoughts.
The system is online and looks forward to serving the Host, the Happy Life System replied in An Wuyang's mind.
After receiving the Happy Life System's response, An Wuyang immediately continued questioning it through his thoughts. What does the system do?
The system will assist the Host in embarking on a happy life journey, the Happy Life System replied with an unintelligent message.
Ding!
Congratulations, Host, on obtaining the Original Blessing: Lucky Wealth.
Lucky Wealth:
Every second, the Host will receive 0.01 Xia Guo Yuan in Happiness Reserve.
The Host may withdraw any amount of Happiness Reserve to his personal bank account.
Beginning at 12:00:00 a.m. on June 25, 2021, every second of the Host's life should be happy and joyful!
After reading the Happy Life System's latest notification, An Wuyang first reached accurately through the darkness and found his phone. He checked the time. It was just past 12:12 a.m.
He then checked the Happiness Reserve in the Happy Life System in his mind. It was a constantly changing number, and it had already exceeded 7.2 yuan, corresponding exactly to the rule of earning 0.01 yuan per second.
An Wuyang quickly calculated mentally:
One second was 0.01 yuan,
One minute was 0.6 yuan,
One hour was 36 yuan,
One day was 864 yuan,
One month was 25,920 yuan,
One year was 315,350 yuan.
More than 300,000 Xia Guo Yuan a year might already be a huge sum for ordinary people.
At least the vast majority of ordinary people could not earn 300,000 Xia Guo Yuan in a year.
But to An Wuyang, it was nothing but trouble!
System, how exactly is this Happiness Reserve obtained? An Wuyang asked.
Born into a wealthy and powerful family, An Wuyang was highly sensitive to economic matters, so the first thing he did was ask the Happy Life System about the source of the funds.
Host, please rest assured. The system's funds come from legal channels including, but not limited to, the US stock market, futures markets, the international foreign exchange market, and the international gold trading market. Everything is traceable, the Happy Life System replied in his mind.
However, An Wuyang continued to question it. Through what channel will these funds be transferred into my bank account?
This question seemed simple enough. To ordinary people, the answer would be a direct transfer. What other issue could there be?
In reality, however, this question was far from simple!
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