Chapter 1 : Chapter 1
Chapter 1. After You Made It, You Dumped Me; the Slacker Choice System Arrives
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It was nighttime. Inside a luxurious villa, every corner was decked out in festive decorations. Colorful balloons surrounded the words “Happy Birthday.”
“Jiang Yichen, I’ve secured a guaranteed spot with Huaxia’s number one team, the Yanhuang Team. I don’t think we’re right for each other.”
In the crystal chandelier-lit living room, a delicate-featured woman in a white dress, graceful as a swan, lowered her head to look at the cake on the table as she spoke.
Huh?
Across from her, Jiang Yichen trembled all over when he heard that painfully familiar voice.
He slowly lifted his eyes and fixed his gaze on the girl in front of him.
The moment he saw that face, his pupils contracted sharply.
Lin Wan!
His eyes turned dazed. A second ago, he had still been torn apart by a horde of beasts. How had he returned to the moment Lin Wan broke up with him in the next?
Had he been reborn?
Jiang Yichen’s eyelid twitched. Then his right hand began to tremble slightly, and he almost wanted to slap himself.
Yes, slap himself hard!
In his previous life, he had been the young master of Huaxia’s number one great family.
His father was the Martial God with the highest combat power in all of Huaxia, and his mother controlled Huaxia’s largest financial conglomerate.
Yet despite being born with such heaven-defying backing, he had rebelliously refused the marriage arrangement his family set up for him and fallen for Lin Wan, a girl from a poor background instead.
During their four years in college, he had been afraid Lin Wan would feel inferior because of the difference in their status, so he always pretended to be nothing more than an ordinary rich second-generation heir.
Lin Wan said she liked hardworking and ambitious men, so he covered all of her cultivation resources and daily expenses for four whole years.
He helped her father start a company, bought her younger brother a house and a car, gave him spending money, and sent her mother a villa and luxury goods.
That alone would have been one thing. At worst, it was just money.
But Lin Wan had also said that her dream was to enter Huaxia’s number one team and stand at the peak of the martial path.
Yet with her S-rank talent, she could not even reach the threshold of the top ten teams.
Jiang Yichen could not bear to watch her dream shatter, so starting from his freshman year, he secretly built more than a dozen teams from the ground up.
After four years of effort, he had used countless resources to force the Yanhuang Team to the top of the rankings.
As graduation approached, he had worked himself to the bone so Lin Wan could enter the Yanhuang Team openly and without question.
He repeatedly arranged opportunities for Lin Wan to interact with Yanhuang and other elite squads, and he used the media to promote her and affirm her strength.
Thanks to all the connections he had exhausted and all the painstaking effort he had poured into marketing her, Lin Wan had become, in the public eye, a genius who had already secured early admission into Huaxia’s number one team.
And during those same four years, he had lived a life of clocking in at five in the morning and not getting off work until midnight every single day.
He had to deal with all kinds of problems in the early stages of building those teams, and on top of that, Lin Wan kept complaining that he never spent time with her. Every night, he still had to coax her for another hour or two before he could finally sleep.
Over those four years, he had been hospitalized more than ten times from sheer exhaustion, yet Lin Wan had never visited him even once.
He had originally planned to take advantage of graduation and, on Lin Wan’s birthday, present her with the gift he had spent four years preparing—along with the team he had painstakingly raised—as one grand surprise.
But… before he could even say a word, Lin Wan had already proposed breaking up.
For the sake of so-called love, he had supported Lin Wan’s entire family for four years, even to the point of damaging his relationships with his parents and friends, all to help her realize her dream.
And in the end, after helping her make it, all he got in return was one sentence:
“We’re not right for each other.”
Looking at the swanlike woman before him, Jiang Yichen felt nothing but disgust.
Clap! Clap! Clap!
He applauded.
“Now that your dream has come true, you’re kicking aside the benefactor who supported you for four years. Not bad. Really impressive.”
When Lin Wan heard the sarcasm in his voice, her willow brows slowly knitted together, and a flash of anger flickered in her eyes.
“Jiang Yichen! How could you say something like that? Weren’t those things the bare minimum a boyfriend should do?”
“So now you’re bringing all that up to threaten me? You want me to treat you like some benefactor and keep supporting you in return, just so you can stop me from pursuing a better future?”
“Hah! Jiang Yichen, you’re just jealous that I can enter the Yanhuang Team while you can’t even meet the graduation requirements.”
“I didn’t even ask you to compensate me for the four years of youth I wasted on you, and now you’re actually keeping score over what you gave me?”
“Brother Chengyu was right about you. You really are a selfish, despicable little man!”
Lin Wan bit her lip and glared at him in utter fury.
A despicable little man?
Jiang Yichen almost laughed.
He had spent money and effort to help her achieve her dream. He had played the fool for her, worked like a beast of burden for her.
And in the end, now that she was standing in glory, she called him despicable?
Then what did it make her, sneaking around behind his back and lining up Ye Chengyu as her next option in advance?
And she even prettied it up by calling him her “male best friend.” Shameless beyond belief.
Jiang Yichen laughed, completely speechless inside, and said coldly, “You don’t need to say all this. You just think I’m no longer worthy of a heaven-blessed daughter like you, don’t you?”
“What’s the point of coming up with all these excuses and turning the blame back on me?”
He did not care at all about Lin Wan entering the Yanhuang Team.
As the boss behind the scenes, he knew the team’s true state better than anyone.
On the surface, it looked dazzling beyond compare. Ranked number one in Huaxia, overwhelmingly powerful.
In reality, it was nothing more than a nest of parasites—lazy people who had not completed a single mission in four years and had only been shoved up to the top by the endless resources he provided.
Fine.
Then he would stop feeding them and let them fend for themselves.
“You!”
Lin Wan could scarcely believe her ears. Her fists clenched tightly, and furious tears shimmered at the corners of her eyes.
“Jiang Yichen, we were together for four years. Don’t you know what kind of person I am?”
“You’d really think of me like that just to stop me from pursuing a better future? How shameless can you get?”
As she spoke, Lin Wan took out a stack of cash from her pocket and flung it in front of him. It looked like about thirty thousand.
“You only care about the little bit of money you spent on me, right? So petty. Fine, I’ll pay you back!”
Jiang Yichen glanced at the thirty thousand on the table and was speechless.
The cultivation resources alone that he had spent on her over those four years had already cost well over a billion.
Not to mention the expense of supporting more than a dozen teams. That was an astronomical sum.
And she thought thirty thousand was compensation?
She really had some nerve.
Seeing the way Lin Wan looked on the verge of tears, Jiang Yichen sneered. “Stop pretending. Are you trying to comfort yourself with this pathetic little act?”
Lin Wan froze, apparently not expecting that kind of reaction from him.
In the past, the moment she showed any sign of crying or throwing a tantrum, Jiang Yichen would immediately give in.
So why was this time different?
Seeing the resolve on Jiang Yichen’s face, Lin Wan bit her lip slightly.
She was now a reserve member of the Yanhuang Team, after all. That was Huaxia’s number one team.
With her strength, her future was brilliant.
Besides, her male best friend, Ye Chengyu, had complained about Jiang Yichen many times before, saying that he would only become a burden on her someday.
Now it seemed he had been right.
In four years, Jiang Yichen had only broken through to the Second Realm. He could not even meet the graduation standards.
As for her, she was already a Fourth Realm Martial Master, a genius ranked in the top ten of the entire school.
A waste like Jiang Yichen had no merits at all apart from having a little money.
Brother Chengyu was right. Jiang Yichen really was the stumbling block in her life!
“Fine. Very fine! You want to break up, is that it? Then I’ll grant your wish. I’ll just pretend I was blind for the past four years!”
Lin Wan violently shoved the cake across the table, then crossed her arms over her chest with a look that clearly said she was angry and impossible to placate.
Jiang Yichen merely smiled and shook his head slightly at those words, which had turned her into the victim and him into the offender.
In his previous life, he had really been a complete idiot. He had abandoned the life of a god-tier second-generation heir and run over here to play nanny and dream-guardian for this woman for four years!
Damn it!
[Ding! The host has been detected facing a major life choice. The Slacker Choice System has awakened.]
[Please make one of the following choices.]
[1. Just like in your previous life, beg Lin Wan not to break up with you for the sake of your four years together, and shower her with gifts while pleading for forgiveness. Reward: the title “Peerless Ultimate Simp.”]
[2. In your previous life, you suffered and toiled too much for Lin Wan. Now that you have lived again, you only want to slack off and enjoy the wonderful life of a god-tier second-generation heir. Break up forcefully, stop managing the teams, and take back everything you gave to Lin Wan and her family. Reward: “Supreme Gift Pack.”]
Huh?
The Slacker Choice System? A Supreme Gift Pack!
Hearing that wonderful little “ding” in his head, Jiang Yichen froze.
Was this the benefit that came with being reborn?
Out of those two options, even a brainless idiot would pick the second one!
Now that he had been given another life—when both his parents were already standing at the king level—if he still kept acting as an ATM for Lin Wan’s family, that would be beyond absurd.
Forget the teams. Take back everything he had given that ungrateful wretch Lin Wan. Cast off every chain binding him and enjoy a carefree life of slacking off. Wasn’t that far better?
Jiang Yichen smiled faintly and was just about to tell Lin Wan to get lost when he saw her glance at the large birthday cake he had painstakingly prepared all afternoon. She swallowed, then said coldly,
“Let’s eat the cake. Stay with me through this birthday, and then we’ll break up. From then on, we’ll have nothing more to do with each other.”
With practiced elegance, Lin Wan picked up the plastic knife on the table and began cutting the cake.
Jiang Yichen let out a cold snort. She really had some nerve.
He sprang to his feet, grabbed the edge of the table with one hand, and flipped it over with all his strength.
“We’re breaking up, and you still want to eat cake? Eat your damn mother instead!”
Crash!
The dining table slammed heavily onto the floor, and the carefully prepared cake became nothing more than trash scattered on the ground.
Lin Wan’s eyes widened. She stared at Jiang Yichen in disbelief, her face frozen with shock.
The living room fell into a brief, dead silence.
“Jiang Yichen! What the hell is wrong with you!?”
That furious shout rang in his ears. Jiang Yichen’s eyes turned cold as his gaze landed on the now-standing Lin Wan.
Her face was full of rage, and she rebuked him, “I know breaking up is hard for you, but we’re both adults. Is there really any need to throw a childish tantrum like this?”
“You can still celebrate my birthday with me right now, and you don’t know how to cherish it. In the future, you won’t get another chance. You and I are going to belong to two different worlds!”
?
Jiang Yichen laughed in anger.
She had only gotten where she was by relying on him, and now she was talking about two different worlds? What a joke.
He looked at her with utter disdain and said calmly, “We really are people from two different worlds. From the very beginning, I never should have crossed that line.”
He was the young master of Huaxia’s number one great family, while Lin Wan still had to worry about making a living. The distance between those two worlds really was enormous.
“Now get out.”
Jiang Yichen pointed toward the door.
Lin Wan looked utterly confused, as though she could not understand why Jiang Yichen had suddenly become like this.
But still burning with anger, she clenched both fists and held back the urge to hit him.
“Fine. But once I leave, even if you beg me, I will never come back!”
“At tomorrow night’s graduation ceremony, I’ll publicly announce that I’m breaking up with you. Hmph!”
Lin Wan picked up her things and walked out of the luxurious villa without looking back.
Jiang Yichen watched her slam the door behind her as she left. He did not care in the least about her threat to break up with him. Instead, he slowly picked up his phone.
“Uncle Feng, I need your help with something.”
“What is it, Young Master?”
A sharp light flashed through Jiang Yichen’s eyes.
“Freeze every account belonging to the Yanhuang Team and all the other teams as well. Tell every great family that only sponsored them out of respect for me to withdraw their funding immediately.”
“Either they support themselves, or they disband on the spot.”
“And one more thing—take back everything I ever gave Lin Wan.”
[Ding! The host has made a Slacker Choice. You have been rewarded with one “Supreme Gift Pack.” Would you like to open it?]