"I'm leaving. Don't you have anything else to say to me?"

Inside an ordinary apartment complex in the Deep City Flower Estate.

Standing by the door, Du Wan elegantly dressed in her flight attendant uniform, accentuating her svelte figure, with her legs, clad in black pantyhose appearing especially slender.

She turns to look at Qin Fan, her eyes filled with inexplicable complex emotions.

Qin Fan, with a cigarette in his mouth, watches the woman he has been living with for four years.

After a long silence, he finally stubbed out his cigarette, his Adams apple bobbing slightly: "One last time?"

As his words drifted through the room, Du Wan bit her red lips, hesitating slightly before nodding.

Several hours later, Du Wan, having reorganized her tousled hair, is ready to leave with her suitcase in tow.

Her voice is slightly choked: "It's all my fault. If you feel wronged, vent your feelings now. Beat me, scream at me, I'll accept it all."

"I'm sorry, Qin Fan,"

Leaving him with her last words, Du Wan turns around and leaves.

Watching her leave, Qin Fan, all alone, lights up a cigarette on the balcony.

Looking at those potted green plants in the corner of the balcony, which they both planted together, his thoughts impulsively drifted back to his university days.

They met each other at a campus event back then, got acquainted, and eventually fell in love.

Along the way, they supported each other and strived together.

After graduating from flight attendant school, Du Wan succeeded in landing a job as a flight attendant due to her standout appearance and elegant demeanor.

At around the same time, Qin Fan was also able to secure a position at a well-known foreign company, earning a salary of more than ten thousand yuan per month.

Combined, their monthly income exceeded twenty thousand yuan, a salary considered very decent in most cities.

However, in the real-estate-high city of Shencheng, this income seemed modest.

Qin Fan's rented apartment alone cost six thousand per month. Add in daily expenses like commuting, communication and general living costs, it easily surpassed ten thousand.

Let alone extras like festive gatherings, shopping and so forth that really stretched their resources.

In the beginning, they harbored hopes and believed that as long as they worked hard together, future would certainly get better.

Yet after a few years from graduation, the grim reality shattered this beautiful expectation.

They realized that their current lifestyle might be the endgame of their lives, with no chance of a breakthrough.

When Du Wan calculated, based on their current income, that it would take them more than 200 years to buy a house in Shencheng, and that too only in some remote suburb, they both fell silent.

At that moment, Qin Fan understood that their relationship had reached its end.

In the smoke-filled living room, Qin Fan leaned against the cold wall.

Before Du Wan left, she had carefully arranged everything, prepaid the rent for three months and meticulously noted the instructions for every household appliance.

And then, she left.

Looking back over the years, Qin Fan realized he had indeed given his all.

In order to earn more money, he not only worked tirelessly to become the assistant team leader at the company, but also found time to work as a rideshare driver in the evenings and weekends.

What's a 996 schedule? He's even survived working from dusk till dawn.

But in this city, no matter how hard you try, it seems like pouring a cup of water onto a cart of hay

a drop in the bucket

.

What about the saying "Once you are here, you are a local"? It sounds more like irony to him.

Looking at the sky outside the window, all he felt was a deep sense of fatigue.

For so many years, he has always suppressed himself for the sake of living. Now, it was time for him to indulge a little.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the brightly lit massage parlor downstairs, and his eyes flickered.

But he eventually turned around and headed back to his room to open his worn-out laptop that had been in service for nearly ten years.

He clicked open a certain East Mall, pulled out the long-preserved wish list in his shopping cart, and clicked place order without any hesitation.

A top-spec i9 with 4090 desktop computer!

Sitting in front of the computer, Qin Fan's fingers tremble as he clicked confirmed payment.

A full 30,000 dollars was gone just like that.

He refreshed his bank balance reminder.

[Card ending in 4680 on July 2nd at 13:21, after$29850 withdrawal, remaining balance $45120]

Looking at this large expenditure, Qin Fan didn't feel heartache. On the contrary, he felt a surge of unprecedented pleasure. The heavy burden of buying a house was finally entirely thrown away.

Who cares, anyway? If push comes to shove, I'll just leave Shencheng and go back to my hometown county town.

Living in Shencheng all these years, waking up early, going to bed late, pinching pennies – it's just been too hard.

Opening the gaming platform on his computer, Qin Fan unreservedly added the long-coveted games to his shopping cart: "The Elden Ring", "The Witcher 3", "Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice", "Red Dead Redemption 2"...

In the past, he could only watch others play; now, finally, he got a taste of the enjoyment himself.

The joy of shopping had Qin Fan laughing heartily in his bed – the feeling of spending money freely was absolutely thrilling!

Just then, a cold mechanical voice suddenly rang in his ear:

[Host's reckless expenditures detected, Extravagant Tycoon system activated]

[Why not drink up when the wine is at hand? There's no need to sigh alone under the bright moon!]

[In this life, if not for oneself, isn't it a trip in vain?]

Qin Fan was still in a daze, failing to grasp what was happening right now.

Suddenly, a series of mechanical prompt sounds echoed in his mind.

[Host has completed the first reckless expenditure, reward: 220,000]

[Host reckless expenditure completed, reward: 10,000]

[Host reckless expenditure completed, reward: 10,000]

[...]

Beep sounds were incessant.

Meanwhile, Qin Fan's phone also began to shake wildly.

He hurriedly took out his cell phone to check, only to see one message after another flooding in:

【Valuable customer, 220,000 RMB has been credited to your Jin Hua Bank Account

3302 as the terminal number

, the origin is legitimate】

【Valuable customer, 10,000 RMB has been credited to your Jin Hua Bank Account

3302 as the terminal number

, the origin is legitimate】

【Valuable customer, 10,000 RMB has been credited to your Jin Hua Bank Account

3302 as the terminal number

, the origin is legitimate】

Looking at this series of deposit notifications, Qin Fan finally realized that all of this was real.

Being an old bookworm who has loved to read webnovels since he was a kid, he was all too familiar with the "system" genre.

After waiting for more than twenty years, he finally received his very own system.

After the excitement, Qin Fan slowly sorted out his thoughts and carefully pondered over the operating rules of this unique system.

It appeared that the first bonus was acquired after purchasing a computer, followed by the rewards given by the system when purchasing games.

He pondered thoughtfully that the rewards seem to be directly proportional to the amount spent—the more you spend, the more substantial the returns.

With an experimental attitude, Qin Fan selected and paid for a few more games.

The result was as he expected, only the initial couple of games triggered the reward mechanism, no returns were received for subsequent expenditures.

He couldn't help but nod to himself, this system was designed quite securely, clearly to prevent anyone from exploiting loopholes.

It would be too excessive if he could infinitely secure rewards by repeatedly purchasing small items.

It seems that if similar consumption patterns are repeated too often, the system will automatically block the reward effect.