A Man's Dream

An indescribable planet.

Huaxia, Bin City.

"Grandpa, your grandson is calling you!!!"

Early in the morning, the phone rang nonstop, waking Li Xian from his sleep. He forced his eyes open and glanced at the time. It wasn't even nine yet, so he switched his phone to silent mode, burrowed back under the covers, and continued sleeping.

It was Saturday, so he didn't have to go to work. Getting him up early was impossible. Besides, he had spent the entire night masturbating and hadn't gone to bed until four or five in the morning. If he didn't sleep until the afternoon, he'd be letting the weekend down.

After who knew how long, Li Xian irritably kicked off the covers. Perhaps his sleep had been interrupted, because he no longer felt sleepy and found it difficult to fall back asleep.

Which bastard is bothering me so early in the morning?!

Still grumpy from being woken up, Li Xian picked up his phone. When he saw the name on the three missed calls, he froze for a moment and muttered, "Did the sun rise in the west today?"

The calls had come from his girlfriend, Zhang Ning.

The two of them had been giving each other the silent treatment for more than a week and hadn't been in contact. Zhang Ning's sudden call caught him off guard.

Based on what he knew of Zhang Ning's personality, unless he took the initiative to apologize and back down, she would never contact him. These three back-to-back calls gave off an eerie feeling in every way.

Had she changed?

How could that be!

Li Xian immediately dismissed that unrealistic thought. He was just about to call her back when several VX messages came in one after another.

They were from Zhang Ning.

Li Xian opened VX and took a look. Instantly, a surge of anger shot to his head.

"Well, well..."

"Li Xian, you're quite something now. You actually dared not answer my calls."

"Never mind. This should be the last time I call you."

"I'm officially informing you that we're over!"

"Let's break up!"

Fuck... Fine, let's break up!

I've wanted to break up for a long time!

I've put up with you long enough!

His morning temper, combined with the anger he had built up over a long time, nearly made Li Xian smash his phone to vent his frustration. Fortunately, reason prevailed. He didn't do it. Instead, he clenched his fist hard and took a deep breath.

Wrecking a phone that had been with him for two years over this woman would be a terrible waste.

"Fine, let's break up. The next one will be better, more obedient, and more understanding!"

"Goodbye, then!"

He quickly sent two messages and immediately blocked her without giving her a chance to respond.

Heh, he wasn't deleting her. He just wanted to annoy her. She couldn't send him messages anymore—let her die of anger.

He did the same with her calls, blocking her directly. She couldn't get through, and her texts couldn't come in either.

Once he was done, Li Xian immediately felt much better. He had always been indecisive before, so today was the perfect chance to put an end to things.

In fact, the two of them had been a mistake from the very beginning.

Their relationship had never been equal. Li Xian had always been in the weaker position.

Zhang Ning had only reluctantly agreed to become his girlfriend after their friends had strongly pushed them together. In truth, she had never liked him.

As for Li Xian, he had foolishly given his all to her alone. He was supposedly her boyfriend, but in reality, he was nothing more than a tool and a wallet.

They had been together for half a year, but all they had done was hold hands and put their arms around each other's waists. He hadn't even touched her lips. How could that be called dating?

As his ideological and political studies teacher used to say: A boyfriend and girlfriend who had never slept together weren't really boyfriend and girlfriend. They were siblings.

Li Xian and Zhang Ning's relationship probably didn't even qualify as that.

Zhang Ning was always finding fault with one thing or another about Li Xian. Even when he spent money on her, she complained that he was stingy!

What was worse, whenever they went out together, she often brought along a third wheel. Li Xian had been reduced to a human selfie stick.

He had never appeared on Zhang Ning's Moments. His presence was basically zero. Aside from the two or three friends they had in common, everyone else probably still thought she was single.

That was one hell of a performance.

A little stupid—no, extremely stupid.

But men sometimes lost their heads. What mattered was being able to see reality clearly sooner.

Fortunately, Li Xian hadn't spent too much money on her. He wasn't like some people who maxed out their credit cards for so-called love and ended up buried in debt.

In the end, they had drawn water with a bamboo basket—nothing to show for it.

Forget it. Talking about it only brought tears.

After lying on the bed for a few minutes, Li Xian went to the bathroom. It was impossible to say the breakup hadn't affected him at all, but he had a good mindset. Besides, he had already been mentally prepared, so he believed he would forget her before long.

The next one would be better, more obedient, and more understanding. Next time, he would keep his eyes wide open.

In the bathroom, after washing his face, Li Xian picked up his phone and called his best friend, Wang Meng.

Wang Meng had been his university classmate and was also one of his few close friends in Bin City.

The phone rang for a long time before the other side finally answered.

"Brother Xian... what the hell are you doing? What time is it? When did we even go to bed?"

"Forget sleeping. Get up and play. I just got dumped..."

"Huh?" There was a pause on the other end. "That fast..." His tone made it sound as though it were only natural.

"You have five minutes. Get up, quick."

"Okay, wait a second... Oh, right, I'll send you something. Check VX."

After saying that, Wang Meng hung up. Li Xian opened VX in confusion. Before long, Wang Meng's messages arrived. They were several pictures.

Li Xian opened the pictures and zoomed in. He immediately flew into a rage. They showed a man and a woman embracing intimately, and the woman was none other than Zhang Ning, who had just broken up with him.

"Fuck your mother!"

Li Xian cursed and continued looking. There were pictures of Zhang Ning eating with that man, and the last one showed the two of them getting into a BMW together.

Well, well. She had hooked up with a guy who drove a BMW!

Li Xian laughed angrily. He did his best to control his emotions and sent Wang Meng a message.

"When did this happen?"

After a few seconds, Wang Meng replied, "About half a month ago. It's not that I didn't want to tell you, bro. Mainly... I was worried there might be some misunderstanding."

"Mm... It's fine." Li Xian didn't blame him.

"Sigh... If you really can't swallow this anger, we can go deal with that bastard. I asked around. He works at the same company as Zhang Ning, so it'll be easy to ambush him."

"Forget it... Let's play first." Li Xian thought it over and didn't act on impulse.

What good would beating the man do? At most, it would relieve some anger. If things went badly, the man might report him to the police, leaving him in trouble and with a criminal record.

He was an outsider and had no connections in Binhai. It would be too easy for that man to retaliate against him, and his friends might get dragged into it as well.

All things considered, beating him up might feel good for a moment, but the consequences would be endless. It wasn't worth it.

"Just letting it go? Brother Xian, don't bottle it up until you hurt yourself."

"Mm. I'll wait for you in-game. Get online quickly."

After sending the message, Li Xian slammed his fist onto the desk and exhaled a breath of stale air. "Damn it... So what if he drives a BMW? I'll definitely drive a G-Wagon someday."

[Well said, host. A man should drive a G-Wagon.]

Li Xian: "????"

[Super Money Spending Game is binding...]

"What the fuck? What is this?"

A cheat?

A system?

Having been exposed to countless webnovels, Li Xian wasn't unfamiliar with such things. He just hadn't expected such a stroke of luck to happen to him.

Could it be that fortune had finally turned in his favor?

Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river...

Just as Li Xian was bursting with excitement, the game finished loading. Suddenly, a nineteen-inch translucent interface appeared before him.

Attribute panel.

Host: Li Xian, male, 24 years old, height 178, weight 185 (slightly overweight).

Level: Lv1

Appearance: 59.

Charm: 50.

Strength: 51.

Endurance: 52.

Agility: 40.

Are my attributes really this terrible?!

That can't be right. I'm pretty handsome. How is my appearance not even passing?

This endurance and strength must be fake. How are neither of them even passing?

Li Xian rubbed his chubby face. He had always considered himself quite handsome. Even though he had gained a full circle of weight compared to before, he was still just as confident.

This was probably a common problem among all men. The more they looked at themselves in the mirror, the more handsome they felt. Women were the opposite—the more they looked, the more imperfect they thought they were.

All right, none of that was important.

After checking the attribute panel, Li Xian shifted his attention and opened the mission panel.

[Lv1 Main Mission: Spend 10 million within seven days. Automatically accepted. (Countdown begins: 6 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes)]

[Notice: The main mission must be completed within the time limit. Otherwise, the mission will be deemed a failure and the game will end. The mission funds may be allocated freely by the host, but may not be used for illegal activities, arms dealing, drugs, or anything that endangers public safety. After the mission is completed, the system will evaluate it. The host's score will affect the amount of funds available for the next-level mission.]

666666...

The game had given him ten million right at the start, and he had to spend it all within seven days. Wasn't that a little too outrageous?

[Your main mission funds have been deposited. Please check your account.]

[Your five consecutive beginner-draw attempts have been sent to the warehouse.]

[Your unique passive skill, "Wish Come True," has been issued. Please check the skill bar.]

[Random Mission: A Man's Dream. Please accept it!]

[For more functions, please pay attention to the system prompts!]

Whoa. Besides giving him money to spend, it also had random missions, a lottery, and a skill bar...

After receiving such a huge amount of information, Li Xian's head was already spinning a little. Just then, a bank deposit notification arrived.

"10,000,000.00 was deposited into the bank card ending in 6664 at 09:12 on June 7, 2014. Current available balance: 10,000,511.95."

Looking at the message, Li Xian's hands began to tremble and his heart raced. Becoming a multimillionaire out of nowhere was difficult to get used to.

It should be real, right?

Li Xian decided to test it. He logged into VX and began transferring money to Wang Meng.

1,000...

1,000...

1,000...

Li Xian sent him 10,000 yuan in one go.

O((⊙﹏⊙))o

Wang Meng was completely dumbfounded and sent over a whole string of question marks and confused emojis.

"Brother Xian... what happened to you?"

"Don't scare me!"

"I'm timid..."

Wang Meng didn't dare accept the money. He trembled on the other end of the phone, and when Li Xian didn't reply, he immediately sent voice and video calls.

Li Xian smiled and tapped reject, then sent him a voice message. "Mengzi... This is everything I own. Help me take off one of that bastard's legs."

"Fuck, I knew you couldn't swallow this! I'll take the job. But you don't need ten thousand—two thousand is enough. I guarantee he won't be able to lift that leg."

Pfft...

Those words made Li Xian laugh. He quickly sent another voice message.

"Hahahaha... I was joking. We're civilized people. We don't do anything illegal."

The system had explicitly stated that the money couldn't be used for illegal activities. Although he didn't know whether "a personal grudge" counted as illegal, Li Xian didn't want to take the risk.

Besides, now that he had ten million, getting involved in fights was far too LOW.

With this much money, wouldn't it be easy to squeeze and knead that bastard however he pleased? He could deal with him openly and aboveboard.

Li Xian wasn't in a hurry at all. The most important thing now was figuring out how the game worked.

"Joking? Then I'll accept the ten thousand and transfer it back to you."

"Why transfer it back? Keep it for now. We'll go out for a big meal tonight. I have something urgent to take care of, so I'm not playing anymore. Wait for my call."

After saying that, Li Xian turned his attention back to the game interface and began studying how it worked.

The game wasn't difficult. Its main task was spending money. As for how to spend it, he simply had to spend it aggressively and freely, as long as he didn't break the law.

Random missions were triggered by the passive skill "Wish Come True," and the trigger rate was related to the host's obsessions.

The game had no shop, but various items and cards could be obtained through the lottery. Character Attribute Points and lottery attempts could be obtained by completing missions.

There were three skill-card slots beneath the character panel. The number of slots would probably increase as his level rose.

Time passed quickly, and before he knew it, it was noon. After more or less figuring out the game, Li Xian thought for a moment and accepted his first random mission.

[A Man's Dream: A man should drive a G-Wagon. Your G-Wagon is parked in Zone B on Level B2 of the underground parking lot at Gaoxin Wanda Plaza. Go drive your G-Wagon away! Time limit: 30 minutes. Countdown begins: 29 minutes, 59 seconds.]

What the fuck? Wanda Plaza was nearly twenty kilometers away!