Lost Deer's Path: "(Bank balance screenshot) (Photo) This is my savings and a selfie. I work in the aesthetic medicine industry, and have stores all over the country. I own properties in 26 states, am thirty-six years old, divorced with no children. I've been reading your books for years and am quite curious about you. I'd like to get to know you better. If you encounter any financial difficulties, I can help you solve them. If we get along well and you want to switch careers and start a business, sis can help you."
"Cough, cough~"
It was already midnight, but Li Peifeng's TT messenger notifications were incessantly ringing.
Because of those three provocative photos, too many female book fans were chatting with him. Among all the book club chats, the one from the member with the online name "Lost Deer's Path" left the deepest impression on Li Peifeng.
An eight-figure balance starting with a 7 made Li Peifeng count it several times. The screenshot was real-time, with little possibility of being fake. He never imagined there would be such a rich sister in his book fans group, and she was indeed very attractive, still full of charm with excellent temperament.
But what does that have to do with me? Just because you're pretty and rich, I should be kept by you? Wishful thinking!
Solving my financial problems, sponsoring me to switch careers and start a business, all just pie in the sky. You think I covet that? Do you think if you say these things, I'll gleefully add your WeChat, flatter you humbly, and praise you?
Li Peifeng swiftly typed back on the keyboard: "Sis, you're lying, who would believe you're thirty-six years old?! Twenty-six is more believable."
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[17014 yuan remaining to open the next draw, please keep working hard, Host...]
"32650 yuan worth of mooching currency."
At two in the morning, just before going to bed, Li Peifeng glanced one last time at the system panel. This five-figure sum was his final earnings from interacting with book fans this time around.
The wealthy book fans contributed the most, especially the fixed alliance leaders of his books, 'Neighbor Old Huang' and 'Lost Deer's Path.' After adding them on WeChat, each directly transferred ten thousand yuan…
"Worth celebrating, not because of the over thirty thousand yuan, but because I've discovered a path for sustainable development and expanded my social circle."
Lying in bed, unable to sleep, Li Peifeng started pondering life, or rather the future life of mooching.
Tonight's gains went beyond the thirty-plus thousand mooching currency. Most importantly, he successfully established a connection with those wealthy female book fans.
Li Peifeng was a careful and far-sighted person. Ever since getting the system, he felt a vague concern.
Now, the other party had issued a novice task; if completed, wouldn't there be harder tasks in the future?
Most likely, yes.
And just with the novice task, the system ordered him to guide two women in the Capital to each give three-thousand-yuan purchases. The next task, wouldn't it require targeting various states, all across Dong, guiding more women to make gift purchases?
Not only might the amount increase, but the social status of the target people might also increase significantly.
In the not-so-distant future, the system might require him to woo wealthy women he didn't even know, which would be exceedingly difficult.
Thinking about this made Li Peifeng's skin tingle. Thus, he thought it'd be better to take the initiative. Getting to know more wealthy women in advance would prevent him from being caught off guard.
If the system sent no more tasks in the future, then Li Peifeng would welcome it gladly.
If the system indeed issued harder strategy tasks as anticipated, then based on the pattern for choosing targets for the novice task, there was a significant chance the next task's target would still be selected from those familiar to Li Peifeng, thereby reducing the task's difficulty for him.
"Those who don't plan for the long term aren't fit to plan for a moment. Those who don't plan for the big picture aren't fit to plan for a region."
"That's not a problem. I must think long-term…"
Not knowing how long he was lost in thought, Li Peifeng gradually drifted off to sleep, and in his grogginess, he seemed to be having a bizarre dream.
He dreamed of a little pond, with a goldfish in it. Somehow, from the looks of it, he felt this goldfish resembled Xu Manning.
Then, this goldfish resembling Xu Manning swam and swam, encountering many other fish.
There were grass carps, black fish, eels, silver carps, and blue fish... These fish were also familiar to Li Peifeng. Each time he saw one, he felt as if it wasn't a fish but a familiar female friend.
Stranger still, no matter how the goldfish swam, it couldn't reach the end of the pond. It even encountered marine fish in the pond, with all sorts of marine life.
There were salmon, tuna, cod, yellow croaker, hairtail, shark, whale... a complete variety.
As a result, the goldfish resembling Xu Manning became panicked. Upon surfacing, she found the scene had transformed from a pond into an endless blue sea, and the goldfish became very angry, even speaking human words, cursing:
"Li Peifeng, you rascal, I thought I'd finally reached your heart, but I ended up in your fish pond! I thought you just had one fish pond, but didn't expect you to reign over the seven seas!!"
"I won't let you off even as a ghost!!!"
After saying this, the goldfish dived back into the deep sea, choosing to stop breathing, drowning itself. Soon, it floated belly-up on the sea's surface...
Then, a ghost resembling Xu Manning, with a fierce and ferocious expression, floated from the fish's body, filling Li Peifeng's view: "You must die!!"
"Ah~ My dear, let me explain, I'm just friends with them…"
Li Peifeng was jolted awake. Upon waking, he was soaked in sweat, muttering nonsense.
Only after opening his eyes and realizing his surroundings did he breathe a sigh of relief: "Luckily, just a dream."
"Even if it's a dream, how the hell could someone have such a dream?!"
Soon after, Li Peifeng, fully awake, felt sticky all over, emitting a slight odor, as if he had just been pulled out of a swamp.
He wiped the sweat from his forehead, and upon lifting the covers, found the bed completely soaked, leaving a blurred, human-shaped watermark on the sheets.
"Did the nightmare really cause me to sweat so much?"
Cleaning the grime off his body, Li Peifeng vaguely felt it wasn't that simple. He simply got up naked, pulling the curtains slightly apart. At this moment, the sun was just rising, and he felt even more odd, quickly checking his phone for the time.
"October 6th, 7:26."
"I seem to have gotten up quite early; I haven't seen the Capital's morning for a long time…"
Due to writing and doing research papers, Li Peifeng had developed the habit of being nocturnal, tapping away on the keyboard until three or four in the morning, sleeping till noon.
And yesterday, he clearly remembered going to bed after two in the morning. Now, he had only slept five hours and woke up?
The subconscious part of his brain told him, why are you, a night owl, getting up so early? You haven't slept enough! Go back to sleep!
Li Peifeng very much wanted to flip the blanket over and catch more sleep.
Yet his body seemed full of energy, without a trace of sleepiness. His cells and blood seemed to be shouting: "Forget sleeping, get up and have fun!!"
This was a state of energy that Li Peifeng rarely felt, even after eight hours of sleep.
"It feels like being sixteen or seventeen again, when I was in high school, bursting with vitality like an ox…"
As he pondered, Li Peifeng went to the bathroom to freshen up.
It's worth noting, he hadn't been eating or resting well these days. According to his physical condition before, even twelve hours of sleep might not suffice to recover, but now, just five hours were enough to regain full energy?
Aside from the fact that the system replaced his kidney, he couldn't pinpoint other changes in his body. Perhaps the reason lay here.
"Sweating so much, could it be that the new kidney is detoxifying while the body sleeps?"
"This is somewhat akin to the cleansing of meridians in martial arts novels!"
While scrubbing the grime off himself, Li Peifeng became increasingly certain, for there was indeed a lot of grime, at least half a kilogram. This was not normal...
[Effectively resists facial aging and increases human lifespan by 32%.]
This description was apparently not exaggerated.
And just from having a kidney replaced, to achieve such delightful change, what about in the future…
After scrubbing himself clean for over ten minutes, enjoying the continuous surge of energy within him, and looking at his radiant reflection in the mirror through the lingering steam, he was half believing, half doubting.
"Damn it, am I actually getting happy?!"