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?”

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.

Liu Qingyun acquired a ‘Loss-Making System.’ As long as he loses money on investments, he gets ten times the return. He just wants to lose money, but every project he invests in somehow becomes wildly successful. Only the world where Liu Qingyun is the one getting hurt has been achieved.

‘I just want to lose some money—why is it so hard?’

"Oh my god! Isn't the modeling in this game too beautiful?!"

"I've decided, you'll be my wife from now on!"

Bang!

Warning: You've been attacked by a foundation-building monk and are in a near-death state!

"Fuck, I'm just an NPC in the game, why do I have such a bad temper!?"

Kejin traveled to an era of chaotic games, where everyone believed in the idea of using money to buy happiness. Game companies were in chaos, and various methods of defrauding and forcing people to gain money were endless. Countless games could even steal money, but still give it back to players. A card drawing simulator was released.

As a fan of games in his previous life, Kejin suddenly felt that the sky was dark. Fortunately, he got the Zero Krypton game production system!

As long as players don't spend money, they can get the ultimate reward of the "Complete Collection of Game Design Plans"!

Not spending money? Isn’t this easy to handle? Give me MengMeng benefits!

Give away 50 consecutive cigarettes during the high summer temperatures! Get 100 draws on the second day after the server is launched! Since the daily active users of this game have reached 50, a set of cool skins originally priced at 999 will be given away! The sister-in-law who planned it has just turned 17 years, 3 months and 7 days old, and hereby distributes 50,000 crystals!

My sincerity has almost filled the players. After all, no one will be interested anymore, right?

Secretary: Mr. Ke, good news! The new game we just launched has already achieved sales of over 100 million on the first day!

Ke Jin: Huh? What kind of good news is this? No, what about the other one? Then the game will give away 100-99 vouchers when the game is launched. Is the sales volume very poor?

The secretary looked at the boss's expectant face in confusion and said: They shouted something about a company with a conscience, or it would go bankrupt if it didn't pay, and so on, so they charged it up. That game has sold 100 million copies worldwide. Congratulations on making 100 million!

"..."

At 3:30 that night, Ke Jin was lying in bed, unable to sleep, and sent a message: Please stop cheating, you are really hurting me...

Player: Got it, Mr. Ke said that life is hard, brothers, please increase your efforts! Charge me!

God of Web Novels,’ ‘King of Romance,’ ‘Father of New Wuxia’... and so on—these are all just misunderstandings the world has about me. I’m just a porter!" Song Ci sighed helplessly.

In this life, he only wanted to be a salted fish and enjoy life.

He never expected that he'd end up walking further and further down the path of a literary giant.

Ye Xiao traveled through time!

This is a world where everyone has an investment system!

But only Ye Xiao knows the history!

Who to invest in at the end of the Yuan Dynasty?

Invest in Zhu Yuanzhang!

Good luck all the way!

Who to invest in at the end of the Sui Dynasty?

Invest in Li Er!

Go go go all the way!

Others lost all their money, but Ye Xiao made a fortune!

Ye Xiao is the well-deserved king of investment!

"Please, I'm begging you all, stop letting me make money!"

"Get away, you damned bills!"

In the eyes of the public, Pei Qiankun was a titan of the entertainment industry, an investment genius, and the perfect boss—but he was utterly miserable.

Ever since he acquired the Wealth Compensation System, he'd been desperately trying to spend money and rack up losses, racking his brains to find losing investments.

But money seemed to have developed a life of its own—the more he spent, the more he had, the more he spent, the more it grew.

Even his employees, who were originally slackers, suddenly acted like they were on performance-enhancing drugs, working like crazy to earn him more and more.

Now staring at the business empire he accidentally built with his own hands, Pei Qiankun was on the verge of tears.

"I really just wanted to lose money!"

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!”