Chapter 1

Working overtime until half past eight in the evening.

After work, he had to accompany his boss drinking until one o'clock in the morning.

Is this the kind of job for a human?

It's just the daily routine of a factory dog.

Sigh, this life is even worse than a pig's; I wonder what it means.

After seeing the manager off in a colleague's car, Su Yuan shakily went to settle the bill.

Leaving the street-side food stall alone, he didn't walk far before he suddenly squatted by the tree pit on the roadside.

His expression was extremely uncomfortable.

"Ugh!"

The intense discomfort made him feel like he was pouring out all the bitterness in his heart.

"Cough... cough!"

Passersby just glanced at Su Yuan and hurried away.

After vomiting, Su Yuan's legs were numb from squatting, and his mind became a bit clearer.

Blowing in the cool breeze on the street, he staggered back to his rented place.

After entering, he fell directly onto the soft bed, feeling a suffocating heat in his chest in a daze.

Gradually, he started to have trouble breathing.

When Su Yuan opened his eyes again,

"Did I reincarnate?"

In a panic, Su Yuan opened his phone and looked at the time displayed on the screen.

June 11, 2017.

It was three months after he was promoted to production supervisor.

This year was his fourth year working at Kaidi Daily Chemicals.

Today was Sunday, and the production line in the factory was shut down. The first day of the month was a day off, and Su Yuan was grateful for it.

Kaidi Daily Chemicals' e-commerce business had not fully developed this year, and the order volume in June was not high.

Compared to a few years later, it was a huge difference.

After confirming his reincarnation,

Su Yuan's heart began to stir.

His body was still without a beer belly, and his figure had not changed. After four years of graduation, his youthful appearance had not completely faded.

His parents were still alive, and the house at home was built. His parents had rented out the first floor to someone for a restaurant, earning 2,000 yuan in rent each month. Everything was developing in a good direction.

In a daze, Su Yuan recalled the time right after graduation.

Back then, he was full of ambition and joined Kaidi Daily Chemicals through campus recruitment.

Of the eight alumni who joined at the same time, none of them lasted for half a year and left in a hurry, leaving only Su Yuan to persist.

It happened that his family needed money to build a house that year, and Kaidi Daily Chemicals' salary was decent. Su Yuan gritted his teeth and persisted.

Eight years passed in a flash.

Four years ago, Su Yuan had transformed from a naive fresh graduate into a production supervisor in the production department of Kaidi Daily Chemicals.

If he continued, he would still be a production supervisor even when he eventually left.

It was impossible to advance further, and the fastest way to get a raise was to quit.

Working without a day off and in two shifts, his post-tax salary was around 14,000 yuan.

Among the graduates of the same batch from a second-tier university, this salary was just about acceptable.

After all, Su Yuan had only graduated from a second-tier university, starting from a lower point than students from 211 and 985 universities, let alone master's and doctoral students.

Unfortunately, staying in a company for too long, combined with the major in chemical engineering, environmental science, and civil engineering, which were considered "death pits," it was a situation where even dogs wouldn't read.

Compared to aerospace, it was a whole different level.

After accepting reality,

Su Yuan went to the balcony to wash his face.

This was a place he rented near the company. Although the factory provided accommodation, Su Yuan moved out after a month and went through several moves before finding this place.

The rent was 1,000 yuan per month, and with utilities, it was around 1,300 yuan.

His current post-tax salary was just over 10,000 yuan, and his family had no urgent need for money.

Being able to return to four years ago was truly great.

The only downside was that after working at Kaidi Daily Chemicals for eight years, Su Yuan had not met his life partner.

As a result, he was often teased by his colleagues during department gatherings.

Back in the living room, Su Yuan lay on the sofa and opened his phone to check the messages in the WeChat group.

After confirming there was nothing urgent, he began to organize his thoughts.

He had reincarnated from 2021.

A lot had happened in these four years.

After a long while,

Su Yuan's heart sank to the bottom. In his previous life, he was just an ordinary person who would only browse the internet and watch dramas in his free time.

He had some impressions of major news, but when it came to making money, he was at a loss.

As a seasoned factory dog, Su Yuan faced production capacity and anomaly handling every day.

After work, he either played games or ate, and although he remembered some major events of a certain year, he was always an outsider.

He rarely delved into research.

This was a complete embarrassment for a reincarnated person.

At that moment, Su Yuan even thought about whether he could return to the moment four years later when he was drunk and lying on the bed.

The moment this thought crossed his mind,

A voice sounded in his mind.

[Ding! Life Slack System successfully bound]

"Sure enough, it came?"

Then Su Yuan felt a darkness before his eyes, and when he woke up again, he found his body drenched in sweat.

The sun had set, and his stomach felt very hungry.

After waking up,

Su Yuan did not forget the voice he heard before falling asleep.

Following the guidance from novels he read in his previous life, Su Yuan silently chanted to open the system, and a blue virtual screen appeared before his eyes.

To be cautious, he took a photo with his phone and found no abnormalities.

Su Yuan completely put his guard down.

This blue screen was visible only to him, which reassured him.

[Life Slack System]

[Bound to: Su Yuan]

[Level: 1 (100/10,000) Slack one minute to gain 1 point of experience.]

[Today's slack time: 1 hour 40 minutes * 100 minutes.]

[Current withdrawable amount: 1,000 yuan]

[Note: The host gains 10 yuan for every minute of slacking, and can withdraw 100 yuan. The reward increases with the level; slack time includes but is not limited to slacking at work and in life.]

[The host does not need to worry about the source of the money. The system filters out all transaction risks, so the host can use the system with peace of mind.]

The system was simple, and Su Yuan understood it clearly.

The system was straightforward and did not require completing any tasks. Su Yuan had a rough idea of how the system judged slack time.

But he needed to verify it.

Slacking at work probably meant not doing work-related tasks, and slacking in life was likely similar.

He could divide slack time into side quests, with the main quest being the current task.

Let's try withdrawing some money!

With a thought, the withdrawable amount on the blue screen disappeared instantly.

At the same time,

Su Yuan's phone vibrated.

Looking down, he saw a notification from the Construction Bank.

Your savings card ending in 4234 received 1,000 yuan on June 11 at 18:41. The balance is 171,293.23 yuan. [XX Bank]

Su Yuan's mood instantly became incredibly joyful. This was the feeling of earning money while lying down?

It was a completely different feeling from earning money at work.

He had 170,000 yuan in his account.

After working for four years, he had saved 170,000 yuan, and life was becoming more hopeful.

Including the 150,000 yuan he transferred to his family in the past two years,

In four years, he had earned over 300,000 yuan.

But now with the system, Su Yuan's mindset had changed.

Money earned should be spent.

Using 170,000 yuan to buy a car for commuting was the best option.

Living here, it took ten minutes to ride a scooter to Kaidi Daily Chemicals, and rainy days were a torture.

Starting with buying a car, he would gradually improve his life.

Accumulating enough capital, he could eventually quit this job and live a leisurely life.

After making up his mind,

Su Yuan took his clothes and went into the bathroom.

Half an hour later,

Su Yuan went out to eat.

As usual, Su Yuan entered a Lanzhou noodle shop.

The owner, Yuan Li, was from Henan but had married into Guangzhou and rented a shop to open a Lanzhou noodle shop.

Business was decent.

The street was close to the nearby industrial zone, and many factory workers would come to this street for meals or snacks after work and on rest days.

The food in the factory was really not fit for human consumption.

"Owner, a large plate of tomato beef stir-fry!" Su Yuan shouted to the owner in the kitchen and sat down near the air conditioner.

"Coming right up!"

Soon, the owner brought out a plate of stir-fried tomato beef and asked warmly,

"Xiao Su, are you off today?"

"Yep, I'm on the day shift this week." Su Yuan put down his phone, picked up a spoon of chili sauce, looked around, and asked curiously,

"Xiyue isn't helping in the shop?"

Yuan Li sighed, "She's doing homework at home!"

Su Yuan: "..."

After eating and drinking, Su Yuan went to the supermarket to buy a bag of snacks and a few bottles of mineral water.

Back at his rented place,

Su Yuan felt sticky again and decided to take another shower.

Eating and coming back with a sweat, this was the weather in June.

After showering,

Su Yuan sat in front of the computer, opened a game, and hung out on YY.

He had been playing this game for about half a year, but he was a casual player, flying around different maps with his in-game apprentice.

Spending money was out of the question.

Okay, Su Yuan did spend a couple of thousand on clothes and gave a few to his apprentice, a girl named Xiaoxiaoqing.

At nine o'clock in the evening,

In the YY chat channel,

Su Yuan's in-game apprentice came online.

"Master!" A soft, gentle voice called out.

Who would have thought this was the voice of a 29-year-old girl.

"You're finally online." Su Yuan sat up straight, opened the contact list, and invited her to join the team.

"Quick, join the team, let's go see the sea of clouds."

Xiaoxiaoqing played a character with an umbrella, and Su Yuan played a Taoist.

"Coming!"

An hour later,

Both of them logged off.

Before reincarnating, as the work at the factory increased, he uninstalled the game in August of this year.

Su Yuan remembered that next week, Xiaoxiaoqing would invite him to meet in person.

But at that time, Su Yuan was too busy, having just been promoted to supervisor and dealing with the launch of the company's new laundry bead product. He had no time to think about anything else.

The plan to meet in person was eventually dropped.

Over time, their contact became less frequent, and they gradually became "dead bodies" on each other's WeChat.

Neither knew if they had been blocked or deleted.

Perhaps one day, seeing each other's Moments, they would be surprised, but ultimately, they would not contact each other again.