2026-06-29 22:11:16"Lin Chen,Lin Chen!!."
He heard his name before he could open his eyes. Looking up at the white ceiling. His felt like his head was splitting apart. Where am I? When his vision finally cleared, he saw Liang Hao sprinting across the hospital room toward him, his chubby body moving at surprising speed, tears streaming freely down his face. "Lin Chen! You're awake! Thank God" He grabbed his shoulders and started shaking him. "Stop, stop shaking me" Lin Chen pushed his hands away. "I won't be okay if you keep doing that. Tell me what happened?" Liang Hao wiped his face with his sleeve. "I should be asking you that. I left you outside, you said you were fine, but when I came back there was smoke everywhere. Your laptop was burnt and books were releasing smoke. If I hadn't come back when I did, you'd have choked and suffocated in there." He shook his head. "I rushed you straight here." Lin Chen said nothing as he was confused by what he heard.. "Don't kill yourself over Su Xiaowan. She is not worth it. Trust me I know a lot of girls. I am going to find you better girls than her.." He tapped his chest firmly. "Where's my phone?" Liang Hao moved back with dodgy eyes as explained. "I have it. But I don't think you should look at it right now" Lin Chen held out his hand for it but Liang Hao stepped back. Lin Chen reached over and took it from his pocket anyway. He opened it as a series of notifications entered from the campus platform. A video was already trending, one of him walking into the hotel room, Su Xiaowan's speech, security dragging him and Liang Hao out. The comments were loading faster than he could read them. 'What did he expect? Did he want her to suffer with him?' 'After all, who wants to suffer? Everybody wants money.' A smaller group called her a gold digger but they were badly outnumbered and buried by other comments. Lin Chen read each comment slowly. He felt something tighten in his chest as he looked at it. He had spent years building something. And the world was telling him it had been worthless from the start. I guess its true, maybe they're right. Knowledge alone can't feed anyone. The group chat was still pinging now with more talks. Guys, Lin Chen tried to kill himself. Someone posted a video clip of Liang Hao carrying him toward the clinic. ' He couldn't handle the rejection.' 'Poor boy I guess it was too hard for him'. "How did they know?" Lin Chen asked quietly. "The dorm was smoking, half the block came outside. Someone must have filmed when I was carrying you." Liang Hao shrugged helplessly. "Let's just get out of here." The doctor cleared him after a series of tests and then they walked back in silence. On the way back , his stomach growled loudly. "Fatty Hao, Can you get me something to eat?" "Okay." Liang Hao pointed a finger at him. "But stay there and don't do anything stupid while I'm gone." He left to get food. Lin Chen walked back and entered the dormitory alone and stood looking at the burnt laptop on the floor. Ahh another problem. Just as he bent to pick the laptop, then he noticed a faint blue icon blinking steadily at the edge of his vision. He raised his hand and swiped in front of his face. But nothing happened. He tried again but it was still there. He sat down and focused on it completely just then it expanded. A screen unfolded directly in front of his eyes, filling his vision, shocking him as he stumbled backward into the wall. [Host has experienced peak humiliation] [Trigger condition fulfilled] [KNOWLEDGE IS WEALTH SYSTEM — ACTIVATED] Core Function: Knowledge is Wealth. Every time the Host learns, masters, or discovers something of real value, the system converts that knowledge directly into real-world wealth. [Current Level: Beginner Scholar] [Attributes Unlocked: beginner genius-level memory. Beginner analysis ability.\] [FIRST MISSION:\] [Master and completely understand a new subject within 24 hours.\] [Reward: Cash conversion based on knowledge value acquired.\] [WARNING: If mission fails, system will be destroyed.\] Lin Chen stood against the wall, staring at the interface as he swiped his hands in front of him. Just then Liang Hao returned with breakfast, pushing the door open with his foot, two bags in both hands. "Liang Hao." Lin Chen didn't move. "Can you see anything in front of me? A blue icon?" Liang Hao squinted at the empty air in front of him. "Are you sure you don't need another checkup? Let me feel your head" "I'm fine. I just need to use the bathroom." He slipped past him and locked the door. Standing in front of the mirror. He focused on the interface again and let it expand fully as he stared at it for a long time. Knowledge is Wealth. Su Xiaowan had stood in that hotel room and told him knowledge meant nothing. Wang Hao had said it in front of everyone. The comments had agreed. And some part of him had even started believing in it. They had all been wrong from the beginning. And he was going to prove it to them.
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Chapter 18: Athena Technologies
Lin Chen looked down below as the busy city as he plans of his empire unfolded in his head. When he heard the sound of something rushing at him as Liang Hao threw both arms around Lin Chen before he could even dodge, nearly knocking him into the wall."Lin Chen! Look at us! We're going to be the Steve Jobs of tomorrow, the Mark Zuckerberg of tomorrow! And when we've built the empire and people ask how it all started, I'll be the one telling the story. How I was there from day one, supporting you, well you deserve ay least sixty percent for the effort but I will at least have contributed forty percent and we can hire pretty secretaries with curvy bodies." By this time Liang Hao was already drooling as he was already lost in his imagination his eyes somewhere on the horizon of an imagined future.Lin Chen reached up and flicked him on the forehead. "Come back down. We don't have office supplies, we don't have workers, and the product isn't finished yet."Liang Hao rubbed his forehead
chapter 17: The Empire's Blueprint
Lin Chen finally stopped typing, his fingers hurt and he was tired already. He closed the laptop and moved to his bedroom, the exhaustion from the celebration hit him the moment he stepped through the door, as he switched his phone off without even reading the flood of messages waiting there, congratulations from people he knew, and from plenty he didn't. Tomorrow, the real work will begin. And the plan for his empire will start. He slept off as soon as he hit the bed dozing when he heard sounds that woke him up. Thud!! He woke up to the sound of knocking. Groggy, he stumbled to the door. "Who is it?" "It's me, Fatty Hao." He opened it to find Liang Hao standing there in a suit, a suit that had clearly declared war on his stomach. It looked too tight for his chubby stomach, only the middle button could close, and even that looked like it was losing as it was about to burst. Liang Hao sucked in his gut, held the pose, and announced with a straight face, "Comrade Liang Hao, report
Chapter 16
That evening Lin Chen sat alone at his desk.The apartment was quiet. Outside the window the city moved the way it always did, indifferent and continuous, full of people who had no idea what was being built in this room.He looked at the blank project file open on his screen.A week ago he had been sitting on a curb outside a restaurant with ¥15,461 in his account and a velvet box in his hand that nobody had wanted to open. He had walked back to a dormitory full of books that everyone told him were useless and drunk himself into unconsciousness and accidentally set his laptop on fire.And from that night from that exact low point everything had changed.Now, he had paid off his student loan, rented his own apartment. Built a tool that half the country's cybersecurity industry was now running. Sold source code for thirty million yuan. He stood on a stage in front of everyone who had ever doubted him and said everything he needed to say without naming a single person.He hadn't started
Chapter 15
On the day of the graduation, the graduation hall was fully packed.Every seat taken, the high ceiling above them catching and amplifying the collective noise of hundreds of people in gowns. Family members were in the galleries all waiting. Two local media camera crews at the back of the room.The ceremony moved through its formal stages. With the songs and administrative announcements. A long address from Dean Xu about the institution's legacy that the front rows listened to attentively and the back rows tolerated politely.Then Dean Xu adjusted the microphone."Knowledge and character have always been the twin pillars of this institution. Today I want to invite someone to this stage who has demonstrated in the three weeks since he graduated what those two pillars can build when they are combined." He looked out across the hall. "Our outstanding graduate. The student who used his knowledge to create a cybersecurity tool that secured a thirty million yuan deal before the ink on his
Chapter 14
The news of the thirty million yuan deal broke publicly by the next morning and by noon it had reached every corner of the university group chat.‘Did you see this? Lin Chen sold source code for Thirty Million yuan.’‘Lin Chen. Our nerd Lin Chen. The one who used to fall asleep in the library.’‘I can't believe it. If only I had been friends with him properly.’‘He also licensed the antivirus to three companies at two million per year each. That's six million coming in every year while he sleeps.’‘Su Xiaowan must be losing her mind right now.’‘Where is Su Xiaowan? I heard Wang Hao threw her out.’And Wang Hao's company is apparently completely paralyzed. They can't get the license for the one tool that could fix them.‘Karma is a patient thing.’‘I bet neither of them expect it’In a small apartment across town, Su Xiaowan sat on the edge of a bed she had borrowed from a university friend and read every message as it came in. She read them quickly, Thirty million yuan, getting lice
Chapter 13
Wang Hao arrived seventeen minutes later.Lin Chen watched him come through the door and cross the room. He took his time watching because the contrast was worth taking in properly.A week ago Wang Hao had stood in a hotel suite with his arm around Su Xiaowan looking like a man who had never experienced a consequence in his life. He talked with confidence of someone who had always had enough money that the world arranged itself around him.The man crossing the restaurant floor now was wearing the same expensive suit but it looked different now, slightly rumpled at the shoulders, the jacket not quite straight. He was sweating despite the air conditioning. He was holding a document folder against his chest with both hands like it was something he could hide behind. His eyes were moving around the room before they found Lin Chen, and when they did something moved across his face that he didn't manage to suppress in time.He stopped at the table."Lin Chen." His voice came out uncertain
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