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"By the way, I haven't been to the bathroom in a while!"

Suddenly, in a flash of inspiration, Zhang Yang realized something, and everything clicked.

He jumped to his feet and hurried to the bathroom.

Inside, accompanied by the pleasant system notification ringing in his mind, the task was finally complete!

Task: Lose 20 jin within one month (completed)

Task Reward One: Permanently Remove Loose Skin

Task Reward Two: 5 Experience Points

Current Host Level: 2 (0/10)

Current Daily Cashback: 10,000

Ding! You have an upgrade gift pack waiting to be claimed

He'd done it. He'd finally done it! Zhang Yang had no time to study the system in detail; only one thought was circling through his mind.

At level two, he'd get ten thousand in cashback every day!

He had once been just an ordinary young man from a third-tier coastal city. After graduating from some lousy technical college, he'd struggled day after day in the Magic City, living a life where he could see the end from the beginning.

He was so ordinary, so mediocre. There had been no hope to be found in him at all...

But now...

He walked out of the bathroom and gazed at the lights of the Magic City shining beyond the window.

At last, he could calmly claim his share of the city's splendor and brilliance.

It wasn't an exaggeration to say that Zhang Yang's nose stung, and he nearly burst into tears. It wasn't because his overnight transformation had gone to his head. It was because he'd truly been mediocre for too long, and had spent too long lost in a life with no hope in sight.

Just as he returned to his desk and sat down, a figure stopped beside him.

"Brother Zhang, have something to eat. I heard them say you haven't eaten all day." Bei Wei set a pizza box in front of Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang looked up. A pretty face gazed at him expectantly.

The sweet aroma of pizza wafted toward him, and the appetite he'd suppressed all day flared up in an instant.

"Thanks." Zhang Yang opened the pizza box without hesitation.

Bei Wei immediately beamed and flashed a victory sign at their coworkers in the distance.

"You little rascal, I couldn't talk you into eating, but Bei Wei says one thing and you're convinced?" Xiang Youde teased with a laugh. "We were just discussing whether you'd taken some kind of hit. Looks like you're probably fine after all."

Zhang Yang smiled without replying and took a bite of the pizza in his hand. The satisfying rush of carbs swept over him.

He swore it was the best thing he'd eaten all month.

The busy day finally came to an end at nine thirty. Zhang Yang stretched languidly.

Even with ten thousand coming in a day, he had no intention of slacking off.

He would either quit, or stay at the company and do his job properly. He'd spent two years in the Magic City, and most of the people he knew were at the company. For the time being, he had no plans to leave.

After a brief burst of noisy chatter, the company went dark and fell quiet once more.

Outside the company building, on a spring night that seemed to intoxicate the senses, Zhang Yang felt the evening breeze and savored an indescribable sense of ease. It was the feeling of finally being free of life's pressures and finally being able to enjoy the world's beauty.

"Why bother losing weight? You lose weight to live better. Look at this roujiamo—isn't it delicious? And aren't starch sausages great?" Xiang Youde devoured a roujiamo from Old Ma's Roujiamo at a street stall, relishing every bite.

For him, the joy of life was finishing a busy day at work, enjoying a hearty meal, going home to play games until he got sleepy, then collapsing into bed.

Zhang Yang ate the roujiamo he hadn't had in ages and nodded.

As long as he stayed healthy, Xiang Youde's carefree, contented way of life was actually pretty ideal.

"Of course, I've got to say, I admire you too. You're so hard on yourself and so persistent. You're the kind of person who does great things." Xiang Youde quickly polished off the roujiamo in his hand, then used a cheap tissue to clumsily wipe his fingers clean.

"I could never match you!"

Sitting on the curb, he looked up at the office buildings nearby, a few of their lights still shining. The dazzling night sky of the Magic City, bright as day, was reflected in his eyes...

After finishing their last late-night snack, the two headed back to their respective homes.

As soon as he returned to his apartment, Zhang Yang immersed himself in the system, intending to take a good look at what had changed.

First, he'd claim his rewards.

The experience points were claimed automatically, but the effect that removed loose skin had to be claimed manually.

Zhang Yang took off his shirt and looked at his sagging figure in the mirror. He'd gone from 160 jin down to 140.

"I can't stand this body anymore. Claim it!"

The instant he claimed the reward, the loose skin that had appeared all over his body from losing weight too quickly began to tighten and then vanished without a trace. The skin on his face, which had looked a little old after losing collagen, also tightened up in an instant.

In the blink of an eye, he looked like a different person.

"I look just like I did when I first started college, don't I?" Zhang Yang said, unable to believe it.

The effects of having no loose skin anywhere on his body far exceeded his expectations.

His looks hadn't changed, and without building muscle, his figure hadn't become more defined. But he was thinner and looked more energetic. Compared with others his age at the same weight, he was in even better shape.

"Oh, right. There's also an upgrade gift pack." Zhang Yang checked the system and spotted a pack waiting for him to open.

With a thought, he opened it.

Ding!

Congratulations, Host. You have received a Porsche Cayenne 3.0T. Please collect it at the dealership.

"A Porsche?" Zhang Yang's face lit up.

The system was fair and understood the importance of gradual progress. It hadn't started by giving him a Bentley, a Rolls-Royce, or a supercar. Besides, Zhang Yang had never dared to hope for anything like that.

A Porsche Cayenne was already more than enough to delight him.

After all, in the world of ordinary people, cars costing one or two hundred thousand were still the norm. A car costing over a million on the road was unquestionably a luxury car in his eyes. Even at Zhang Yang's current rate of earning ten thousand a day, he'd have to save for almost four months to buy one.

He was satisfied. More than satisfied!

He walked out of the bathroom and flopped excitedly onto his bed, savoring for the first time the joy and heady thrill that wealth brought.

"What a shame. There's no one to share this joy with right now." After a long while, Zhang Yang sat up and shook his head with a smile.

Once he'd calmed down from his excitement, he started thinking more carefully about what came next.

Some things, once started, didn't simply stop.

How could he be satisfied with ten thousand a day?

"Just ten more experience points and I can reach level three. If I do, then according to the system, my daily cashback will go up to twenty thousand. That's double!"

"The question is, how do I earn experience?"

Zhang Yang focused his attention on the system.

There was a small plus sign beside the task he'd just completed.

Zhang Yang tapped it.

[Note: This task has been converted into a long-term task, intended to help the Host develop the habit of maintaining his physique over time.]

[Please reduce your body fat to fifteen percent or below. If you meet the requirement at the end of each month, you will be rewarded with 5 experience points for that month. This reward is permanent.]

Zhang Yang knew, of course, that weight alone had never been the only way to judge whether someone was overweight. Body fat was what mattered. Even if someone weighed 200 jin, as long as their body fat was low enough, they were healthy.

The requirement of the system's first task had actually been quite lenient. It had judged him by weight alone and hadn't taken body fat percentage into account.

That was exactly why he'd been able to focus solely on losing weight, without worrying about the consequences.

But he couldn't do that now.