Ding!
The system had accepted the reasonable suggestion.
New Task: Skincare Begins with Cleansing
Task Details: Please choose a facial cleanser that is truly suitable for your skin.
Task Reward 1: 3 experience points
Task Reward 2: Beginner Skin-Type Optimization
A new task had arrived. Zhang Yang froze for a moment, then erupted with joy!
The timing couldn't have been better. He was only thirteen experience points away from Level 4. After midnight, he'd complete his fitness task and earn ten points. Then he could find time tomorrow to finish this skincare task.
Wouldn't that be just enough to level up?
At Level 4, he'd earn 50,000 yuan a day.
That came to more than 18 million yuan in cashback a year! What kind of income was that? One could look at the latest rankings of executive compensation at listed companies in China.
The annual salaries of chairmen, presidents, and general managers at those industry giants hovered around that figure.
These people were all leaders in their respective fields. Their names alone were enough to ring out across their industries, even though their actual wealth, equity incentives, and other sources of income far exceeded the figures on the list.
Even so, Zhang Yang had every reason to be proud of an annual income of nearly 20 million yuan.
After all, not long ago, he'd been nothing more than the most inconspicuous cog in a small advertising company!
In the middle of the night, Zhang Yang was suddenly wide awake with excitement.
He checked the time. It was almost midnight. Usually, he would've been in bed by now. After all, rest always came first for anyone who worked out.
But not tonight.
He was going to wait for midnight. Once the fitness task was complete, he'd receive five years' worth of fitness experience. To be honest, he was curious to see how his coach's "excellent natural frame," combined with five years of muscle development, would turn out.
The seconds ticked by, and midnight drew closer.
Standing in the bathroom, Zhang Yang took off his shirt and glanced down at the time.
Ten seconds left.
He counted silently, waiting for the moment to arrive.
Tick!
It was now the early hours of the next day.
Ding!
Congratulations, host! You have completed thirty full days of fitness training and finished the task.
Task: Exercise for Thirty Days (Completed)
Task Reward 1: 10 experience points
Task Reward 2: Five Years of Fitness Experience (Unclaimed)
Current Host Level: 3 (22/25)
"I finally did it!" Zhang Yang's face lit up with uncontainable joy.
He looked at his current physique in the mirror. He was well-proportioned, with visible muscle definition; it was clear he'd been working out. Then he silently thought, Claim reward!
In an instant, an indescribable warmth spread throughout his body.
Zhang Yang watched himself in the mirror as his physique began to transform.
His chest, back, shoulders, arms, waist and abs, thighs...
"Now I finally know who I am!" Zhang Yang's eyes widened as the impact of the transformation washed over him.
He stood six feet tall, with broad shoulders, a narrow waist, and finely sculpted muscles from head to toe. And contrary to what he'd expected, his build wasn't overly exaggerated. Instead, it had an incredibly harmonious beauty.
In clothes, he looked tall and lean. With his shirt off, every detail was perfect, like a Greek statue.
"Now this is what they call boyfriend arms, right?" Zhang Yang flexed. His muscles instantly tensed. He could easily lift a girl in each arm.
Looking at himself in the mirror, he realized for the first time that his looks might not matter all that much after all.
With a physique like this, even the most handsome face would be overshadowed by its radiance.
It was like having a perfect physique and a merely decent face. Put them together, and he still came out as an 85-point heartthrob, didn't he?
"I'm getting carried away. I'm really getting carried away." Zhang Yang sighed.
After twenty-five years of being ordinary, he suddenly had a heartthrob's physique. The leap was so huge that he could hardly adjust to it.
This transformation was unlike the earlier ones. His hairstyle, eyes, height, and other features had all changed gradually. They hadn't been leaps so much as small improvements here and there that added up to a different overall appearance.
But this perfect physique was a true transformation. It was the kind of body that would outshine everyone at a swimming pool or water park.
"Looks like all that hard work for a month really paid off!"
Zhang Yang stretched his tall, perfect body, ran a hand over his eight-pack abs, and headed to the fridge for some milk before bed.
He opened the fridge and stared at its empty shelves, dumbfounded.
Where were the eggs? The beef? The salmon?
Almost everything that contained protein had vanished.
Then Zhang Yang finally understood.
The system really did play fair and obey the law of conservation of energy. So all that food had turned into protein and gone into his body, huh?
Zhang Yang couldn't help laughing. It looked like he'd have a lot to do tomorrow.
Before bed, he sent Supervisor Wang a message to ask for the day off, as usual.
Supervisor Wang always approved Zhang Yang's requests for leave. He even sent a message to check in on him.
There was no other reason. Zhang Yang had done such a good job on the Shihong Group proposal that the client had been thoroughly pleased and approved his plan. Naturally, he now carried more weight at the company.
No one was going to make a fuss over him taking a day off.
The next morning, Zhang Yang opened his eyes and felt dazed for a moment.
It wasn't until he went to the mirror to wash up and saw that perfect, Greek-statue physique that he came to his senses.
He wasn't the same person he'd been before.
The flawless physique in the mirror, the dark hair, the deep-set eyes, the sharply defined features.
This was the new him.
After washing up, Zhang Yang went to the gym on the top floor to warm up and do his morning workout.
A simple tank top revealed glimpses of his perfect physique. Everywhere he went, people turned to look.
As he walked uphill on the treadmill, sweat began to soak through his tank top. A few mature women nearby, dressed in yoga pants and with particularly elegant airs, jogged while stealing distracted glances in his direction.
As Zhang Yang ran, he suddenly noticed several intense gazes fixed on him.
"Excuse me, but you have an amazing body." As soon as he stepped off the treadmill, a woman confident enough to approach him came over to strike up a conversation.
Zhang Yang looked at her. She was fair-skinned and beautiful, with an alluring air. She might have been around thirty, but the mature woman's charm was undeniably captivating.
Hmm... her gaze was a little too direct. Mature women really were different from young girls. They didn't bother with modesty at all.
"Thank you." Zhang Yang wiped his hair with a towel.
The woman bit her lip as she looked at Zhang Yang. The powerful masculine aura rolling off him and the impact of his perfect physique made her squeeze her thighs together slightly. Her heart seemed to skip a beat.
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Thanks to maxwoo23, Xiaoxiao, Wu Cuo Le, and Naoshu Huang de Doudou i for the rewards.
The protagonist's core attributes are almost all in place. From this chapter onward, it's time for the fun stuff.
Don't doubt the style; it's the same as my last book, so there's no need to ask whether this is a pure-love story.
I had a goal when I started my last book, and I have one for this one too. But I can't reveal it yet. It'll only be meaningful to look back on it in the postscript once the book is finished.
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