The Wealthy Tycoon's Game of Life

“CMB, your account ending 1111 received a deposit of 1,100,000 RMB on July 15 at 21:07.”

Zhou Wang glanced at the message he had missed earlier. The system had cash-converted 1.1 million for him.

It indicated that, according to the system’s valuation, the price of this top apartment was 55,000 per square meter.

Zhou Wang’s estimation was spot-on; at this price, the total cost for an area of 1860 square meters easily exceeded 100 million.

He slowly finished the champagne in his hand before picking up his phone to deal with the pile of unread messages.

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As expected, the most were from Su Ranran.

Even though Zhou Wang was engrossed in reading and had hardly responded to her, she kept sending him 3 to 5 messages every hour, mostly talking to herself and continuously sharing her itinerary with Zhou Wang.

Caiyi’s final exams had ended yesterday. She had excitedly wanted to visit Zhou Wang last night, but he stopped her.

After all, he was in the final stages of his return phase and didn’t want her to disrupt his state of mind.

“The KTV in our University City, room rental is only 200 bucks and they throw in a dozen beers, haha~ cheap, right!”

The last message was sent by Su Yajing a few minutes ago, accompanied by a photo of the KTV room.

She had reported her schedule to Zhou Wang early that morning. Since their exams had just ended, the four in their dorm finally gathered together, so they made plans to have fun today.

Of course, girls have a different definition of “fun” compared to guys.

They have many options: shopping, manicures, taking photos, afternoon tea… and they usually plan in advance before heading out.

Guys are much more spontaneous, and their principle for “going out to play” is usually “just go out first.”

Then they might end up sitting around staring at each other, urging someone else to “invite some girls.” The end result often was just hanging out at an internet cafe.

Even when they went to a bar with fancy intentions, it usually resulted in spending the whole night alone, followed by a late-night snack, and then everyone went their separate ways.

Zhou Wang looked at the photo sent by Su Yajing. Although it was taken from her angle and only half of her face was visible, he could clearly see the other three girls sitting on the sofa.

Besides Shen Yutong, whom Zhou Wang had met before, there were two other girls, each with their own charm.

Zhou Wang had heard from Su Yajing that their dorm was quite unique, each of them from a different department. Su Yajing was in performance, Shen Yutong was in dance, and there were others majoring in broadcasting and drama.

Despite the dim lighting, it was still possible to vaguely see that the other two girls weren’t lacking in the looks department.

No wonder Su Yajing often boasted about their dorm being the “beauty queen dorm.”

“Which one is the exchange student from Korea?”

Zhou Wang asked, his curiosity piqued.

“Oh, are you done with your work, big brother?”

Su Yajing replied quickly, “The one with the long, slightly curly black hair at the end. She’s a beauty… Brother, do you want to come see for yourself?”

Zhou Wang was momentarily tempted, but considering how far Caiyi University City was, he felt too lazy to make the trip.

“Your dorm’s get-together, I won’t crash the party. I’m a bit tired today.”

“Alright… so, Brother, can I come see you tomorrow?”

Su Yajing sent a meme, showing her anticipation and nervousness.

“Of course you can. I’ve temporarily finished my work. If you really miss me, you can come over as soon as you wake up.”

Zhou Wang replied and casually asked: “Do you need me to send a car to pick you up?”

“Hehe, Brother, you’re the best, but no need. They’ll head to the city tomorrow, and I’ll just hitch a ride… Oh gosh, just thinking about seeing Brother makes me all misty-eyed~”

Zhou Wang didn’t ask her what exactly became “misty-eyed,” lest their conversation kept him awake all night.

After replying to Su Yajing, Zhou Wang proceeded to respond to the other messages.

Ding Yi, Jiang Mo, Xu Wenqian, B Bro who kept inviting him to try new packages, Young Master Zhang who called him to the club today, and Li Cheng, a classmate who wanted to grab a meal together…

Aside from these, there was a slew of other random messages, including ones from luxury brand salespeople, a nearly forgotten Xiao Mao, and the probing invites from Sun Yi, and so on.

However, these messages could only earn a “read but not replied” status from Zhou Wang; he simply couldn’t keep up with them all.

Zhou Wang went through his to-do list for the next few days.

Spend time with Su Yajing tomorrow, inspect the ‘Cui Lake Yipin’ house the day after that as Jiang Mo would be returning soon, and then the day after receive the ‘Spring Eye’ apartment.

With this in mind, Zhou Wang opened the system interface again.

After two rounds, Zhou Wang became more convinced, “Turn-based” was indeed the essence of the system.

The first round gave him an initial leap in class; in the second, he directly received a property worth over 100 million and a supercar worth tens of millions. What about the third round?

But seeing the motionless system, Zhou Wang hadn’t a clue how to trigger the third round.

Recalling the past two times, there was a sense of it being “heartfelt.” It seemed like there was no set pattern.

Not sure where to start, Zhou Wang didn’t stress over it. He turned his attention to the unused item in the system warehouse.

[Treasure – Stock Exchange Certificate: After use, gain 10% equity of “Wuyou Media”]

Now that the second round had ended and he had some free time, the “Stock Exchange Certificate” could finally be used.

Zhou Wang had even prepared a bit beforehand. Besides scouring various channels for information about the company, he’d been reading up on web media, MCN setups, and related topics over the past few days.

As Zhou Wang concentrated his thoughts, the document flickered and disappeared into white light.

Ding!

[Host used the Stock Exchange Certificate, 10% equity of “Wuyou Media” has been locked in]

[Interacting with reality, progress: 1%]

Zhou Wang looked at the lengthy progress bar, which hadn’t budged, immediately realizing this process wouldn’t be quick.

But he understood; given Wuyou Media’s size, even the all-powerful system would need a series of logical operations to transfer equity to his name safely and without issues.

…

The next morning, Zhou Wang, still lost in sleep, sensed something amiss.

It was a difficult feeling to describe.

As if he’d suddenly fallen into warm sea water, but the strange thing was, the waves seemed localized—

At the same time, he heard a “zzz” sound. How odd that the sound effects layered over each other?

Zhou Wang blinked awake, spotting the mound of his blanket. He quickly threw off the covers and, seeing Su Yajing crouched there holding a phone, Zhou Wang was stunned into wakefulness.

“Ranran… what are you doing?”