My Buddy Has a Project Worth "Hundreds of Millions"

After leaving the sales office, Li Xian originally planned to go to his company to handle his resignation, but a phone call made him cancel his trip.

His pre-ordered figures had arrived and were currently at the hotel lobby. So, he immediately returned to the hotel.

Resigning could be done any day; seeing the figures he'd been dreaming of was a matter of utmost urgency.

His car stopped at the hotel entrance. After getting out and handing the keys to the doorman to park, Li Xian walked into the hotel lobby.

Upon entering, he looked around and spotted several cardboard boxes of various sizes in the lounge area, along with the deliveryman and the housekeeper, Lin Yuan.

"Do you need to open the boxes to inspect the goods?" the deliveryman asked immediately upon seeing the main recipient, already holding a utility knife.

The standard procedure for signing was to inspect the goods first, then sign. However, Li Xian found it troublesome and directly asked for the delivery slip: "No need for all that trouble, just give me the slip to sign."

The deliveryman handed over the pen and slip, confirming again: "You really don't want to take a look?"

Li Xian grunted, signed his name, and returned the slip and pen to the deliveryman. He glanced at the boxes and chuckled, "These things are protected by so many layers, inside and out, they probably wouldn't break even if dropped from the second floor."

The deliveryman also chuckled. He liked straightforward customers like this; they saved him a lot of time.

After the deliveryman left, Lin Yuan found a male attendant and a trolley. They loaded the boxes onto the trolley, and together they took the private elevator.

The six cardboard boxes were arranged in the living room. Li Xian opened his phone to check his orders. Currently, only one batch had arrived. The orders placed with the other two vendors hadn't arrived yet, though his phone showed they had already reached Bincheng.

"Lin Yuan, if there are any more deliveries in the future, please be responsible for signing for them," Li Xian instructed.

Besides the remaining figures, he had also bought a lot of clothes. He expected deliveries every day for the next couple of days, and signing for each one would be too much trouble, so he decided to delegate it to the housekeeper.

"Understood, Mr. Li," Lin Yuan replied, then asked, "Do you have any other requests?"

"Hmm..." Li Xian thought for a moment and said, "Please restock the refrigerator. Get me one 2.5L bottle each of Coke, Sprite, and Fanta, and some beer."

"Yes, I'll get that for you right away."

"Oh, and for lunch, I want pizza. Use Boston lobster and A5 Wagyu as the main ingredients. Make it a 14-inch. Also, bring me a nut platter, and a snack platter with Orleans-style chicken wings, fries, and fried calamari rings... That'll be all."

"Certainly!"

Lin Yuan got up to prepare, making a note of Li Xian's new preferences. Nuts were a new addition today.

Li Xian enjoyed eating and drinking a variety of things daily, ordering according to the Unpretentious Cookbook, and found it endlessly amusing.

This cookbook had one to two hundred dishes, enough to eat for half a year without repeating. He felt that by eating like this, he was more than just a foodie; he might even become the most unpretentious "gourmet."

This idea was definitely not wishful thinking!

Once he had tried all the dishes in the cookbook, he could completely use his experience to create new recipes.

By then, wouldn't he be a true "super foodie"?

It all smelled like money.

Nestled on the sofa, he took out his extravagant Purple Gold Ashtray, lit a Yellow Crane Tower 1916, and took a satisfying drag.

While smoking, Li Xian opened the game System.

The character attribute panel was the same as usual. Apart from Appearance, which stood out at 70 points, everything else was below passing.

It was a real blow to the gut!

Especially the Stamina bar. After working hard for a few days, it only reached 55 points. Li Xian found it hard to accept that despite his large build, his stamina hadn't reached the passing mark.

He hadn't really felt his stamina was lacking before. When watching adult films, he was quite persistent.

Who would have thought the damn System would hit him with the facts? He suddenly felt like he'd been deceived by "Brother Left Hand" all these years.

Damn it, he was deceiving himself! Brother Left Hand was truly unreliable.

Alright, now wasn't the time to dwell on grudges with Brother Left Hand. For now, he needed to focus on improving his stats.

He opened the quest panel and scanned the tasks. There were only two quests in total: one main quest and one random quest [Come and Beat Me Up!].

The main quest was self-explanatory. The random quest was an extremely provocative check-in task that required him to visit four first-tier tourist cities in China. Li Xian hadn't quite figured out how he would do it, but he had two months for the quest, which was ample time to consider it slowly.

With no new quests available for now, Li Xian felt a little unaccustomed.

He had been chasing quests for the past couple of days. Although he kept cursing the damn System for being a rip-off, overall, it had been quite fun.

Suddenly lacking that sense of urgency made him feel a bit uneasy.

He had studied the trigger mechanism for random quests over the past few days and discovered that besides being related to the unique passive skill [Wish Come True] as stated by the System, there was another very important key factor: interacting with people.

Recalling every quest he had completed, there was a crucial character involved in each one. For example, Lu Yang early on, then Cao Xue, and later Dong Linlin.

It was like being in a game, where Li Xian encountered NPCs each time. The difference was that some NPCs had quests, while others didn't.

Li Xian felt his theory was quite sound, which made him have to complain about the damn System.

Since everyone was an NPC, why didn't you put an exclamation mark above the heads of NPCs with quests, you bastard?

System Daddy: You think you can do it just by having hands? You try!

Uh... System Daddy would naturally not react.

Li Xian closed the quest panel, then took a loofah from his warehouse and went to the bathroom.

After a comfortable shower, he wrapped himself in a towel and admired his chubby face in the mirror. The more he looked, the handsomer he became; this was no exaggeration. If you don't believe me, you can try it yourself.

Stepping out of the bathroom, he weighed himself on the electronic scale by the door. It read 95 kilograms.

This damn thing is inaccurate.

Li Xian's lips twitched. He had just checked his character stats panel, which still showed 187.

Complain to the hotel?

Forget it, forget it. An error of a pound or two doesn't matter.

Returning to the living room, Li Xian immediately grabbed a fruit knife he found in the kitchen to open the boxes.

The largest cardboard box was almost up to his waist. Inside was his beloved, the Empress: Boa Hancock.

This figure stood 600mm tall. The Empress was dressed in a sexy purple qipao, striking a classic queenly glare. The base was her throne, and the accessory was the adorable giant snake, Salome. The background was a giant heart with a "Sweetening Blow" effect.

Tsk tsk... It's simply perfect.

The remaining boxes contained Nami, Robin, Second Sister, Vivi, and the Mermaid Princess. Even the smallest one was 300mm. This collection alone was worth over thirteen thousand yuan. The Empress was the most expensive at 6188 yuan, while the others cost one to two thousand yuan each.

Hmph hmph~~~ A One Piece female character set is just unreasonably awesome.

Of course, Li Xian's favorite was still the Empress. Who wouldn't love the Empress when she was perfect from head to toe?

He inspected them all to see if there was any damage before starting to assemble the Empress. He didn't plan to touch the others, intending to assemble them after moving into his new home.

Besides, this one Empress figure was enough to keep him busy for an entire afternoon.

Following the instructions, he attached all the accessories. In the blink of an eye, more than ten minutes had passed.

Looking at the fruits of his labor, the flesh on his face trembled. He swallowed hard, his large hands reaching out.

Sigh, it would be even more perfect if it were a real-life cosplay.

Several figures involuntarily appeared in Li Xian's mind, all of them well-endowed with long legs, suitable candidates. Even Dong Linlin, whom he had just met, was among them.

Not to mention, Dong Linlin's figure would be absolutely perfect for a Boa Hancock cosplay. Add to that her slightly proud face and the way she lifts her chin... I really want to punch her.

Ugh... She's so asking for it.

Li Xian shook his head and chuckled. Why do I keep thinking about her asking for it? Such a tsundere Empress, it would be a shame not to punch her.

"Click, click, click..."

After taking photos from three or four angles, Li Xian directly posted them in the gaming group chat.

Mengzi: "Holy crap... That's awesome..." Wei Shao: "Damn, so provocative..." Jiji: "Blinded my dog eyes..."

There were seven people in the group in total. Besides these three, there was his good buddy Big Brother Ma, who was abroad, his childhood friend Master Jin, who stayed in Shancheng, and Fatty Ye, an even bigger shut-in than Li Xian.

Seeing that a few of them weren't responding, Li Xian directly sent a 200 yuan lucky red packet.

Fatty Ye: "Thanks, boss..." Big Brother Ma: "Boss is generous, boss changes girlfriends every day." Master Jin: "Grabbed squatters... I only got one yuan."

Li Xian smiled and sent another 200 yuan lucky red packet. Then, he typed a message in the group: "Brothers, I have a project worth over a hundred million. I need you scoundrels to help me brainstorm. What should I do?"

As for the main quest, Li Xian had already decided. He planned to start with the easiest sectors: catering and entertainment. However, he was still a bit conflicted about which specific one to choose.

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