Guys, I've Got a Project Worth Over a Hundred Million

After leaving the sales office, Li Xian had planned to stop by the company and take care of his resignation. But a phone call made him cancel the trip.

The figurines he'd ordered had arrived and were waiting in the hotel lobby. So he hurried straight back.

He could resign any day. Meeting the figurines he'd been longing for couldn't wait.

He pulled up outside the hotel, got out, and handed his keys to the bellhop to park the car. Then he walked into the lobby.

After looking around, he spotted several cardboard boxes of different sizes in the lounge, along with a courier and the butler, Lin Yuan.

"Would you like to open the boxes and check the items?" the courier asked as soon as he saw the recipient arrive, already holding a box cutter.

The proper procedure was to check the goods before signing, but Li Xian couldn't be bothered. "No need to go through all that. Give me the form and I'll sign."

The courier handed him the pen and form, then double-checked. "You're sure you don't want to take a look?"

Li Xian hummed in acknowledgment, signed, and returned the form and pen. He glanced at the boxes and smiled. "These things have several layers of protection inside and out. You could throw them off the second floor and they might still survive."

The courier smiled along with him and put away the form. He liked customers who were so straightforward; they saved him a lot of time.

After the courier left, Lin Yuan called over a male attendant and brought a trolley. They stacked the boxes on it, then all rode up in the private elevator.

The six cardboard boxes were set down in the living room. Li Xian checked his phone against the orders. Only one batch had arrived so far; the orders from the other two stores were still on their way, though the tracking information showed they'd reached Bin City.

"Lin Yuan, if any more packages arrive, you can sign for them for me," Li Xian instructed.

Besides the remaining figurines, he'd bought a lot of clothes, too. He figured packages would arrive every day for the next couple of days. Signing for them one by one would be a hassle, so he might as well leave it to the butler.

"Certainly, Mr. Li." Lin Yuan acknowledged him, then asked, "Is there anything else you need?"

"Hmm..." Li Xian thought for a moment. "Restock the fridge for me. One 2.5-liter bottle each of Coke, Sprite, and Fanta, and some beer."

"Of course. I'll take care of it right away."

"Oh, and I want pizza for lunch. Use Boston lobster and A5 Wagyu as the toppings, and make it 14 inches. Also, bring me a mixed nut platter and a snack platter—New Orleans chicken wings, fries, fried squid rings... That'll do."

"Certainly!"

Lin Yuan got up to make the arrangements and recorded Li Xian's new preference while he was at it. Today, the list had gained a mixed nut platter.

Li Xian kept varying what he ate and drank each day, ordering from the Unpretentious Cookbook and enjoying every minute of it.

The cookbook had a hundred or two dishes, enough to eat for half a year without repeating a single one. He felt that if he kept eating like this, he'd be more than just a foodie. He might even become the most unpretentious "gourmet."

That wasn't some ridiculous notion!

Once he'd tried every dish in the cookbook, he could use what he'd learned to come up with new recipes.

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

All he could taste was money.

Lounging on the sofa, he pulled out the lavish Purple Gold Ashtray, lit a Yellow Crane Tower 1916 cigarette, and took a satisfying drag.

As he smoked, Li Xian opened the game system.

The character status panel was the same as before. His appearance score of 70 stood out, while everything else was below passing.

That really hit him where it hurt!

His stamina score was especially bad. After working at it for days, he'd only reached 55. Li Xian could hardly accept that a big guy like him still hadn't managed to pass.

He'd never thought his stamina was lacking. Even when watching porn, he could last a decent while.

Who would've guessed the damn system would deliver such a crushing blow, using the facts to slap him in the face? He suddenly felt that Left-Hand Bro had been deceiving him all these years.

Damn it, deceiving your own people? Left-Hand Bro, that was low.

All right, this wasn't the time to settle old scores with Left-Hand Bro. For now, he needed to raise his stats.

He opened the quest panel and looked over his tasks. There were only two: one main quest and one random quest, [Come and Kill Me!]

There was no need to explain the main quest. The random quest was a seriously rage-inducing check-in quest that required him to visit four first-tier tourist cities in the country. Li Xian hadn't figured out what to do about it yet, but he had two months, which gave him plenty of time to think.

There were no new quests for the moment, and Li Xian felt a little out of sorts.

For the past couple of days, he'd been chased around by quests. Although he'd constantly cursed the lousy system, he'd had a pretty good time overall.

Now that the sense of urgency had suddenly disappeared, he felt strangely uncomfortable.

After studying the trigger conditions for random quests over the past few days, Li Xian had realized that, besides being tied to the system's unique passive skill [Wish Come True], as the system had said, another crucial factor was that he had to interact with people.

Looking back at every quest he'd done, there had been one key person involved each time: Lu Yang at the beginning, then Cao Xue, and later Dong Linlin.

It was like a game where everyone Li Xian met was an NPC. The difference was that some NPCs had quests, while others didn't.

Li Xian thought his theory was pretty solid. And that left him with no choice but to complain about the lousy system.

If everyone was an NPC, why the hell couldn't it put an exclamation mark over the heads of the ones with quests?

System Daddy: You've got hands, don't you? Then do it yourself!

Uh... Of course, System Daddy didn't respond.

Li Xian closed the quest panel, then took a lazy-body scrub towel from his inventory and headed to the bathroom.

After enjoying a comfortable shower, he wrapped himself in a towel and admired his chubby face in the mirror. The more he looked, the more handsome he seemed. He wasn't kidding; anyone who didn't believe him could try it themselves.

After leaving the bathroom, he weighed himself on the electronic scale by the door. It read 95 kilograms.

That damn thing had to be broken.

Li Xian's mouth twitched. He'd just checked his character stats, and his weight was still 187.

Should he complain to the hotel?

Forget it. A couple of pounds' difference didn't matter.

Back in the living room, Li Xian immediately picked up a fruit knife from the kitchen and began opening the boxes.

The biggest cardboard box came up to nearly his waist. Inside was his beloved Empress: Boa Hancock.

The figurine stood 600 millimeters tall. The Empress wore a sexy purple cheongsam and had her trademark queenly, disdainful look. Her throne served as the base, her adorable giant snake Salome was included as an accessory, and a huge heart from Sweet Impact formed the backdrop.

Tsk, tsk... It was practically perfect.

The other boxes contained Nami, Robin, Second Sister-in-Law, Vivi, and the Mermaid Princess. Even the smallest one stood 300 millimeters tall, and all of them together had cost over thirteen thousand yuan. The Empress was the most expensive at 6,188 yuan, while the others cost one or two thousand each.

Heh, the One Piece female-character set was just plain unreasonable.

Of course, Li Xian liked the Empress best. Who could blame him? She was perfect from head to toe.

He checked them all for damage, then started assembling the Empress. He didn't plan to touch the others; he'd wait until he moved into his new place to put those together.

Besides, this Empress alone would keep him occupied all afternoon.

He fitted all the parts together according to the instructions. More than ten minutes slipped by in the blink of an eye.

Looking at the fruits of his labor, he felt the flesh on his face quiver. He swallowed with difficulty, then reached out with both big hands.

Ah, if only a real person cosplaying her could make it even more perfect.

Several figures involuntarily appeared in Li Xian's mind, all of them suitable candidates with ample bosoms and long legs. Even Dong Linlin, whom he'd only just met, was among them.

Come to think of it, Dong Linlin's figure would be perfect for cosplaying the Empress. And with her somewhat haughty face, the way she lifted her chin... Damn, it made him want to punch her.

Uh... She was just asking to get punched.

Li Xian shook his head with a laugh. How had his thoughts wandered to punching her? With an arrogant Empress like that, it'd be a shame not to give her a good punch.

"Click, click, click..."

He took pictures from three or four angles and sent them straight to the gaming group chat.

Mengzi: "Holy crap... That's awesome..."

Wei Shao: "Damn, that's sexy..."

Jiji: "That just blinded my damn eyes..."

There were seven people in the group. Besides those three, there was his good buddy Big Brother Ma, who was overseas; Master Jin, his childhood friend who'd stayed in Shancheng; and Fatty Ye, an even more committed couch potato than Li Xian.

When none of them said anything, Li Xian sent a 200-yuan lucky-money packet.

Fatty Ye: "Thanks, boss..."

Big Brother Ma: "Boss is generous. May you change wives every day."

Master Jin: "Grab my ass... I only got one yuan."

Li Xian chuckled and sent another 200-yuan lucky-money packet. Then he typed into the group chat: "Guys, I've got a project worth over a hundred million. I need you bunch of troublemakers to help me figure out what I should do with it."

He'd already decided on the main quest. He'd go with something easy to get into, like food and entertainment, but he was still torn over which one to choose.

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