After being reborn right after graduation, Cheng Xu embarks on his store-owning journey. He starts off with a single large shop—400 square meters—and just the monthly rent costs over 10,000 yuan. According to the trajectory of his past life, this should end in business failure and dragging his parents down with him.

This time, Cheng Xu decides to give up and slack off. No more striving—surely that will keep him from repeating his old mistakes.

Wait, what? A Wealth System has bonded with him? And it gives him a 100-to-1 rebate on any losses?

Well then, forget lying flat. He’ll follow the same path as last time—max out spending, join forces when he can’t beat them, and go all-in on milking the system for everything it’s got.

But somehow… he’s making money? What the hell? Get away from me, you damned piles of cash!

Ten years later, a reporter interviews him:

“Mr. Cheng, what inspired you to become such a conscientious entrepreneur?”

Cheng Xu sighs helplessly:

“Is it possible… that I just really wanted to lose money?”

Liu Ziyang lay slumped on the creaking, broken sofa in his rented apartment, staring at the "Balance less than 100 yuan" notification on his phone screen. His temples throbbed. Just three days ago, he was a project manager at an internet company; now, he was part of the unemployed masses, without enough money in his pocket to even cover next week's rent.

"Grrrrumble—" His stomach growled at an inconvenient moment. He fished out the last packet of instant noodles from the fridge, three days past its expiry date. Just as he tore open the packaging, his phone screen suddenly went black, then a flashy, golden interface popped up.

[Ding! Host detected in a life low point, "Loss Rebate" System is binding...]

After being reborn, Liu Wei unexpectedly gains the "Slacker System."

As long as he continues to slack off, he’ll achieve success.

But the result...

“President Liu, our game is a massive hit!”

“Brother Wei, our supermarket has expanded into a nationwide chain!”

“Hello, President Liu? Great news—the new movie just won an award!”

“President Liu, your all-in-one entertainment empire is progressing steadily...”

“…”

Liu Wei stands on the balcony, staring blankly:

"How did it turn out like this? I just wanted to slack off!"

...

A counter-trope story.

As long as you lose all the system funds, you can get double the free funds?

Zhang Fan was overjoyed. Making money wasn't easy, but losing money wasn't either! It was just...

What? Prices are falling, and one dollar is equal to one hundred yuan? Zhang Fan panicked as he looked at the 2 billion yuan in his hand.

"You guys spend money! Don't spend it on me! I don't need it!"

"What? The stock price went up? The one I bought was green! What stock god? I'm not a stock god!"

"My movie is a big hit? Even if it's made like that, people still watch it?"

"Are you going to build a city center on that newly purchased wasteland?"

Help! Stop making money! I really don’t want to make money!

[Game Development] [System] [Anti-Trope]

Exclusive Interview

Reporter: “President Mei, your latest game has once again gone explosively viral. Could you share with us the original inspiration behind making this game?”

Mei Caiyi, wearing a pained expression: “You might not believe this, but I actually have a system—every time the company loses money, I personally make a huge profit. So, the whole reason I made this game was to lose money. Same with the last one. And the one before that. All of them.”

Reporter: “Hahaha! President Mei, you’re truly hilarious. I understand now—you’re not in this for the money. You’re just sincerely making heartfelt, high-quality games for the players.”

He really wanted to say: “Understand my ass.”

How was he supposed to know all those games would blow up?

Now they call him things like “visionary,” “marketing genius,” “game development prodigy”—as if they weren’t just slandering him!

“Arbitrary Town”—a construction game with no gameplay, just mindless clicking.

“TombForce”—the protagonist is male, and all the enemies have bizarre, ridiculous designs.

“Cry”—deliberately made to provoke flame wars.

“Conscience-Free Game Platform”—created solely to deter people from registering.

“Escape”—designed to scare players so badly they wouldn’t want to buy it.

…He’s even gone online more than once begging for help: “Willing to pay handsomely for a large-scale, logically sound game idea that’s guaranteed to lose a ton of money!”

Wang Xiaoyu transmigrated to a parallel world and became a PhD student. He then received a system that rewarded him with 100 times the profit as long as he ran a company normally, spent money continuously, and mismanaged it. But unexpectedly, these sneaky bastards kept making the company better and better! They turned it into the world’s number one game company, the world’s number one supermarket, the world’s top investment firm, and so many other titles.

Wang Xiaoyu helplessly said: “I just want to lose money, but there are just too many of these sneaky bastards!”

[Entertainment + Lyrics and Composition + Stay True to Our Original Aspiration] The Voice of China is in full swing, and Su Chen, the challenge host, has been tasked with the following: Do you dare to participate in The Voice of China and see how far you can make it? Su Chen roars, "Let's go! I'm playing for the real thing!" As he makes his way through the competition, his fans are shocked—we'll make you look bad, but you'll make a top-tier debut! This book is also titled: [Entertainment: Let you challenge, but you'll shut down the show?], [A bunch of hit songs rock the entertainment industry in one day], [Entertainment: Let you look bad, but you didn't make your debut!], [After entering the entertainment industry, I made money without doing anything], [With Huaxia as my backing, my works are numerous and powerful!]