Legend has it that, besides our own, Earth has seen the rise of four other civilizations: the oceanic Atlantis, the culinary Mesobudaya, the nature-worshipping Lemuria, and the most mysterious of all, the Gendaya civilization. "Leisure Civilization" is a casual game inspired by these four ancient cultures. Now, all four civilization maps from this game have appeared in Chu Lin's mind, and he can even enter them at will. The first time he set foot in the Atlantis map, only a scattering of bright shrimp could be found. Yet as the map's level increased, the variety of things that appeared grew ever richer… Until, at last, he was able to fully enter all four maps, and the treasures that refreshed within them became ever more astonishing.
"Yiyi darling, it's Valentine's Day today. How about we try out the couple's suite at Grand Hao Hotel?"
"Sweetheart, didn’t you just get a loan of a hundred thousand? Why not buy me that watch from last time? It’s on Valentine’s sale for only twenty thousand!"
"Baby, I told you, that’s for expanding the shop."
"Chulin, do you just not want to give anything? Are you just playing with me?"
"Yes!" Chulin replied truthfully, decisively deleted her contact, and blocked her without hesitation—the speed and familiarity of it almost hurt to watch.
Was she kidding? They’d only known each other a week, had made love twice, and she wanted him to buy a twenty-thousand-yuan watch? "Baby" he could accept, but this was too much.
And she had the nerve to say he didn’t want to give? He’d given billions twice, hadn’t he?
He put down his phone and looked outside the shop. The market was full of couples holding hands; most people still believed in love.
They say that men, at a certain age, stop believing in love. But he was only twenty-three, and he already didn’t believe in it.
For someone whose parents had died, who had no support, and hadn’t gone to university, he’d seen too much, lived through too much. He’d loved wholeheartedly, given everything, suffered heartbreak, and naturally made his way ashore.
He already understood: love was nothing more than a comparison of values, a calculation of pros and cons.
Now, all he wanted was to make money.
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