"Damn it, finally Friday!"
"Finally liberated!"
Corporate slave Su Chen emerged from the subway station like a dead dog, after buying a bowl of egg fried rice on the street.
He rode a shared bicycle back home and finished the entire bowl of rice in a few quick bites.
He rushed into the bathroom, took a hot shower, dried his hair, and tumbled onto the bed in a hungry tiger's pounce.
"Comfortable!"
Sighing in contentment and humming an out-of-tune little ditty, Su Chen took out his phone and began his happiest time of the day.
Scrolling through videos.
Only at this moment did Su Chen feel like he had come back to life, his sense of happiness reaching its peak at this very moment.
He opened Manle.
As soon as he entered, there was an expert running his mouth and spouting empty nonsense.
Looking at those experts in the video flapping their little lips while still emphasizing that young people should not rot away and must persist in striving, saying things like high housing prices are meant to motivate the youth.
To prevent young people from lying flat.
Su Chen looked at his rented room, which was entirely visible at a glance-a place under sixty square meters that could be taken in with a single look.
"Why doesn't this fucking expert give his own house to me and go strive himself!"
"All he knows is standing there talking without hurting his back!"
"What bad luck, scrolling into this kind of stuff on a Friday!"
Su Chen curled his lip and swiped to the next video.
After seeing it clearly, the corner of Su Chen's mouth hooked upward, and he almost left Manle for another app!
A burst of high-energy music came from the phone, where a female bodhisattva was showing off her dance moves while speaking in a cooing voice, and Su Chen's mood inexplicably improved quite a bit.
"As expected, taking a look takes ten years off your age!"
After appreciating it, Su Chen gave a like and followed up with a little follow.
Then he swiped to the next video.
The screen was pitch black, and Su Chen looked at it for quite a while without any reaction.
Suddenly, a ghost face pressed against the screen.
"What the fuck!"
"What the hell is this!"
Su Chen had no psychological preparation, and his phone shook from the scare.
After a few seconds.
Su Chen saw a few large characters written inside the screen:
[Shake, and download Miyin!]
"Awesome, unscrupulous merchants nowadays are all like this, right, directly jumping in my face to scare me into shaking my phone!"
[Download complete!]
The app store's notification sound arrived, and Su Chen was left speechless, having to waste a few more seconds of his time to delete it.
Yet who would have thought that before his finger even tapped on it.
The software opened by itself.
"Holy moly, the junk software nowadays really acts just like a dog-skin plaster!"
[Ding, host installation detected!]
[The Cashback System has finished loading!]
[Swipe videos, get coins!]
[A winner in life is you!]
"Hiss--"
A cold voice resounded in his mind, and Su Chen widened his eyes in disbelief.
His heart, which had only calmed down after watching the young lady, started pounding wildly again.
Su Chen had not failed to do things like watching videos to collect coins; back in his young and ignorant days, he felt that watching videos to get money was simply all benefits and no harm!
However, the money existed, but it either required you to invite new members to join, or you had to reach one hundred yuan to cash out.
Yet Su Chen had scrolled for a whole week just to get two yuan.
Fall into the pit, grow in your wit.
From then on, Su Chen never believed in such things again.
Yet this time was different.
That voice had sounded in my head. If I hadn't misheard just now, it seemed to be some kind of system!
Su Chen spent every day watching videos, playing Genshin Impact, or reading novels, so he naturally knew what this was.
"I have a dad and a mom. I didn't transmigrate or get reborn, I don't have a fiancée breaking off our engagement, and I'm not some genius who turned into a good-for-nothing!"
"Anywhere else, I'd just be an NPC who's a little handsome!"
"I can get a system too?"
But the voice in his head didn't sound fake. There was no way some crappy app had evolved this far just to get people to download it, right?
Su Chen quickly calmed down, though.
It hadn't even said how much money he'd get. If it was just a few cents, then what the hell was the point?
With an attitude of giving it a try, Su Chen tapped into it.
The first video was Fufu's "Masquerade of the Guilty."
Looking at Fufu's beautiful face, Su Chen silently said to himself, "I'm Fufu's dog!"
He'd already played through this story, but he still couldn't take his eyes off Fufu.
He knew it would make him cry, but Su Chen was willing.
A few seconds later.
The system's notifications kept ringing in his head.
[You watched a short video and received 100 gold coins!] [You watched a short video and received 100 gold coins!] [You watched a short video and received 100 gold coins!]
At the same time,
"Alipay received 100 yuan!"
"Alipay received 100 yuan!"
"Alipay received 100 yuan!"
Listening to the payment notifications coming from the phone in his hand, Su Chen was incredibly excited.
One hundred gold coins, one hundred yuan.
He'd only been watching for a few minutes, and he'd already received several hundred yuan!
Why would I need to work now?
Thinking about work reminded Su Chen of his boss's sour face. He'd made Su Chen revise one PowerPoint presentation more than ten times, only to use the first version in the end.
What a joke. But now that he had these videos, he'd quit next Monday.
Still, when he thought about it, Su Chen found it a little hard to believe.
Even an ordinary handsome guy like him could get a system.
Ever since he started reading novels, Su Chen, like many others, had imagined what it would be like to get a system. But eventually, after entering the workforce, he'd finally been crushed by the heavy workload.
Now he read novels just to find a little solace for his soul!
But today, the gears of fate had begun to turn.
He, Su Chen, had actually obtained a system today. It wasn't like the ones in those novels that could casually destroy the heavens and earth, but getting money was already enough to satisfy him.
In this society, money could do anything.
Listening to the Alipay notifications ringing out nonstop,
Su Chen sighed to himself.
"Poor people rely on mutations, rich people rely on technology, and a wage slave like me has to rely on a system!"
Looking at Fufu sitting in the Palais Mermonia on his phone,
"It must be Fufu bringing me good luck!"
"I'll go top up 648 in a bit and bring Fufu straight home!"
As the video continued,
Watching Fufu look so aggrieved because no one understood her, then wipe away her tears and keep acting with a smile,
Su Chen's mood, which had been lifted by getting the system, sank again.
He felt like such a masochist. He knew it would make him cry, but he still kept watching.
"My poor Fufu!"
Su Chen was downcast, but he didn't know that
while he was grieving over the video, the same videos were also being projected onto Teyvat, causing an uproar...