Chapter 1: Reborn as a Grown Man

Zhao An stared at his own hands, then at the calendar on the wall. He had somehow come back to his early twenties! That made no scientific sense at all. His last memory had been of working at a factory, and the final thing he remembered was a fire at a fireworks plant. Then there had been nothing.

“Did I really reincarnate?” Zhao An clenched his fists, feeling the strength in his muscles and the solid ground beneath his feet. No ghost was floating around here.

“Ding! Congratulations, host, on successfully crossing time after death. Encyclopedia System bound. Repeat the same action five times and you will obtain all knowledge and rewards in that field. As a near-death bonus, this system has now been activated. Please enjoy it at any time. This system lasts a lifetime!” a pleasant female voice said.

Zhao An was a little stunned. This was the sort of thing that only happened in novels, right?

Following the voice, Zhao An did five push-ups.

“Ding! Congratulations, host. You have obtained fitness knowledge and your physical ability has increased. Current strength: 200 jin.”

A flood of knowledge surged into Zhao An’s head. Everything related to fitness poured into his mind. With that knowledge, he could easily sit for a coach’s certification and a nutritionist’s license. He also knew how shark-line abs and six-pack abs were built. Just training alone was useless.

Even though his head was a little dizzy, that was just the result of the knowledge infusion. Zhao An’s smile gradually turned unrestrained. He had a bold idea! He was going to vent all the grievances and resentment he had swallowed before. The class beauty he used to be unable to get? He would take her and make her his toy. The rich second-generation brats he used to be afraid of? He would make them bow their heads and submit!

He took his pocket money and went to the lottery shop on the street below the apartment.

Zhao An picked up five lottery tickets, each costing five yuan, and casually grabbed five of them. The shop was lively; plenty of people were there dreaming of getting rich, though most of them were just leeks waiting to be cut.

With a testing mindset, Zhao An scratched the tickets open at random.

“Ding! Congratulations, host, you have obtained knowledge of lottery patterns!” the pleasant female voice rang out again.

More information filled Zhao An’s head. Strange knowledge had increased again!

When he looked up again, the betting numbers on the wall had become a series of charts, and the next sequence was already taking shape.

That change shocked Zhao An. This was way too fucking miraculous! So before the one draw every ten minutes, he rushed to buy a bet: a ten-times wager on five-number selection, twenty yuan total.

After waiting two minutes, when the drawn numbers matched the ones he had bet on, Zhao An’s heartbeat suddenly sped up. He’d won!

“Congratulations, young man.” The lottery shop owner handed Zhao An 5,400 yuan.

“Thanks.” Zhao An took the more than five thousand yuan, his heart pounding. This was the first real money of his life!

With the money in hand, Zhao An went to another shop farther away and placed another bet. This time it was the Super Lotto, drawn three times a week. The prize seemed to be more than 600 million yuan. Zhao An bought 1,000 yuan’s worth in one go. If he won, the prize would be 600 million! Even after tax, there would still be more than 400 million left. That was the kind of windfall that really made a man rich in one shot!

He bought a bottle of milk tea and a pack of cigarettes, then squatted at the street corner, where he could see plenty of beautiful women. He had once been a loser, a plain office worker scraping by on 3,000 yuan a month like some miserable bastard.

Watching women in short shorts with their long pale legs, Zhao An made up his mind. From this life onward, he was going to have his fill, keep every woman he wanted on the side, and get them pregnant. He’d keep a mother-daughter pair at his beck and call, knock them up with his child, and then have them pose for wedding photos with big pregnant bellies!

Just imagining a mother and daughter bound by morality and unable to escape his touch, both of them with swollen bellies full of his seed, dressed in wedding gowns and posing for pictures, made Zhao An so excited he could hardly speak. Fine, he was a loser; a dream of making money and playing with women was the only ambition he had!

A person had to have some kind of dream to keep living. Zhao An’s dream was simply to become a self-made rich man.

While walking down the street, he got a phone call from his mother, Zhao Xinlei. “Xiao An, I’m still on a business trip. I’ll be back in a few days. Take good care of yourself. What gift do you want? I’ll bring it back for you.”

His mother was a lawyer. As a formidable career woman, she had raised Zhao An on her own after the divorce. As a lawyer, she always carried an aura that seemed to command respect and fear without even trying. Zhao An was more afraid of her than of a tiger, and had been taught self-discipline from childhood.

Besides being a lawyer, his mother was also a gorgeous woman. Her full figure was just right, carrying the lush curves of a mature woman without losing the slimness of a young woman. Her distinctive air of power and authority also made people afraid to get close. As a lawyer, she always inspired a little fear, like a teacher you both respected and wanted to conquer.

“Nothing in particular. Just come back safely. I’ll take care of myself,” Zhao An said lightly.

“All right, Xiao An. That’s it, then. See you in a few days.” His mother’s voice carried a trace of apology. She couldn’t be there to care for her son all the time, and that felt like a failure on her part.

Zhao An didn’t blame her much. Just thinking of his mother’s mature, full figure made his thoughts drift. Smack! Zhao An slapped himself, telling himself not to think nonsense.

Back in the apartment, Zhao An began browsing stock knowledge. After opening an account, he specifically picked the cheapest stocks to buy. One lot was two hundred yuan, and he spent a thousand yuan in five separate purchases.

In an instant, Zhao An understood how the stock market worked. It was really that cool!

“Heh, is making money really this simple?” Zhao An let out a cold laugh. In his eyes, the stock chart had another line as well, one that showed the rise and fall for every time period.

He quickly bought a stock. That stock would hit its daily limit tomorrow, and if he sold it in the afternoon, he could make at least 200,000 yuan! Turning 5,000 into 200,000 wasn’t anything unusual in stocks. There were miracles everywhere.

While Zhao An was busily controlling the computer, another flood of knowledge about computer software programs rushed into his mind. It was hacker knowledge!

After absorbing that information, Zhao An’s smile gradually turned even more unrestrained.

He could actually hide himself perfectly, hack into servers all over the place, and steal information. He even knew how to make software and use remote control to carry out financial transfers without being traced.

“This Encyclopedia System is a little too fucking insane!” Zhao An’s thoughts grew bolder and bolder!

Using the computer, he hacked into his mother’s phone. On the screen, in the hazy steam of the bathroom, he could see a voluptuous, alluring figure. It was a little unclear, but Zhao An recognized it at a glance. It was his lawyer mother, Zhao Xinlei! Seeing that scene, his nose was practically bleeding. It was way too intoxicating!