Chen Ke had a splitting headache and heavy eyes, feeling like the aftereffects of a night of heavy drinking.
His phone kept ringing on the bedside table, and he forced himself to get up and answer it.
"Hey, it's connected, is this Ake?" The voice on the other end of the phone had a strong local accent.
Chen Ke rubbed his temples, his voice hoarse as he spoke, "Yes, it's me."
"It's Ake, it's Ake." The person on the phone seemed to be speaking to someone next to them, and then said to Chen Ke, "Ake, this is Zhang Yaoba, do you remember me?"
Chen Ke hadn't yet absorbed the original owner's memories, so he could only reply perfunctorily, "Yes, I remember. Uncle Zhang, is there anything I can help you with?"
"Hey, your dad is right here. He told you about it the day before yesterday. It's your second brother Zhang. He's thinking of going to the capital to try his luck. I can't persuade him otherwise, but he's determined to come to the capital."
"In our Houqiao Village, you're the only one who's successful enough to study in the capital. You're familiar with the city and have a broad perspective, so I was thinking of asking you to look after him and make sure he doesn't suffer any great losses out there."
“Brother Zhang, you’re being too polite. If it weren’t for everyone’s help, Chen Ke wouldn’t have been able to go to the capital to study. It’s only right that Chen Ke took care of Erwa after he went to the capital. Let me talk to him.”
A moment later, Old Chen's strong voice came through the phone: "Ake."
"Dad, I'm here."
"Didn't I call you the day before yesterday and tell you that Erwa's train will arrive this afternoon? Have you gone to the train station yet?"
Chen Ke glanced at the time: 11:39.
"I'll go to Dad's right after class, I'll have enough time."
"Huh? You're in class?" Old Chen's voice suddenly became louder.
Then Chen Ke heard Zhang Yaoba's anxious voice on the phone: "Is Ake in class? Oh dear, hang up quickly so as not to disturb him. It's okay for Erwa to wait at the station for a while."
"Okay, that's settled then. You're about to hang up."
"Okay, goodbye Dad."
After hanging up the phone, Chen Ke lay half-reclined on the bed for a while, his head throbbing with pain.
"System, I want to receive the original owner's memories."
"Master, we have detected that your mental energy has not yet fully integrated with this body. The system suggests that you receive the memories later."
"No need, let's start right away."
"Yes, Master."
As soon as the system's cute loli voice finished speaking, many memories belonging to the original owner of Chen Ke suddenly appeared in Chen Ke's mind.
Chen Ke skimmed through it and got a general idea.
The original owner, Chen Ke, was a golden phoenix who flew from a remote mountain village to the capital through the single-plank bridge of the college entrance examination. He was not only the hope of the entire Chen family, but also a promising person whom everyone in his village would give a thumbs up when they talked about him.
However, after coming to the capital to study, this golden phoenix gradually became dazzled by the bustling world here. Not only did she frequently fail her courses, but she also picked up bad habits such as smoking and drinking.
He associates with bad friends, spends money extravagantly, and often acts like a tycoon to satisfy his vanity, even though he has no money.
As the top scorer in the county that year, Chen Ke received a prize of 50,000 yuan, which was equivalent to five years' worth of savings for his family.
His parents believed that it was better to travel with less money than to stay poor, so they made him carry everything with him. As a result, Chen Ke spent all of it in the first year.
In his second year of university, he started asking his family for tuition and living expenses. His parents just assumed it was because of the high cost of living in a big city and didn't say much. They tightened their belts and saved every penny to support his studies.
The family contracted a few more acres of land, and my younger sister dropped out of school to work in the county town.
These were all things Chen Ke's mother told him on the phone, but he didn't take them to heart at all.
His parents asked him to go home for the holidays, but he felt disgusted by the backward and boring rural life and always made excuses such as having heavy studies or working part-time to avoid it.
Chen Ke continued to live off his parents and family until his senior year of college.
Because he frequently failed courses and graduation seemed a distant prospect, and because of his extravagant spending, he also got involved with campus loan sharks.
That same year, his father was hospitalized due to overwork, and his sister, who worked as a foot masseuse in the county town, was forcibly harassed by a local thug.
His mother, desperate, called him repeatedly, but his phone was always switched off because Chen Ke had removed his phone card to avoid loan sharks.
And so, his father died without ever seeing Chen Ke one last time.
His sister went insane because of the trauma of that incident.
Her mother's hair turned white overnight, and her once straight back became hunched over.
When Chen Ke returned home after begging all the way, all he saw was a dilapidated tile-roofed house, an old and withered mother, and a mentally unstable sister.
The once-celebrated scene of him becoming the top scholar in the county, with a large gathering of guests and the sound of firecrackers, seemed like a dream to him.
He dared not go home, dared not face his mother and sister, and in the end could only cowardly cower on the street, daydreaming and ending his ridiculous life.
"What a selfish and hateful person," Chen Ke commented on the original owner of the body.
However, I'm still a junior in college, so now that he's here, the script needs to be changed.
What features has the system enabled this time?
"Reporting to Master, this time the system will provide you with the 'Super Rich Startup' feature. Do you wish to activate it?"
"Activate".
"Hello, Shenhao Entrepreneurship System is dedicated to serving you."
Chen Ke: ······
It's clearly a system, yet it's playing a role-playing game.
Chen Ke got up and checked the uses of this super-rich entrepreneurship system while washing up.
Click to view the usage rules, and a light screen appears in front of Chen Ke.
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