Chapter 1

In the afternoon, the café was filled with a lazy atmosphere, soft music weaving in and out of the ear, like the whispers of a lover, making people drowsy.

Lin Yue looked at the girl sitting across from him, who was over 170 cm tall and had a head of chocolate-colored wavy hair.

She wore a bright yellow dress, and a string of pearl bracelets on her wrist sparkled attractively as she gently tapped the side of her coffee cup with a spoon.

"Miss Zhang, tell me what you think of me," Lin Yue said, looking into her eyes.

"Your appearance is acceptable, and your attire is appropriate, which adds five points. Your speech is refined, which adds another five points. I give you a final score of 69."

Lin Yue thought to himself that he had been a promising actor, and a score of 59 for appearance? Was she deliberately trying to upset him?

"Total score of 69? This number... well, it's very auspicious."

"What did you say?" Zhang Qin asked, frowning, as Lin Yue's voice was very low, and she didn't hear clearly.

"I'm asking if you have any other conditions regarding material aspects."

Zhang Qin stopped stirring her coffee and stared at Lin Yue's face. "My requirements are not high. I want a three-bedroom, two-living room apartment in the city center, not in an old neighborhood, but a new building no more than three years old, preferably a high-rise with an elevator. After marriage, my name must be added to the property deed."

She paused and continued, "I want a car worth more than 200,000 yuan, and it must be a BBA brand, so the relatives in my hometown can recognize it. After marriage, we can live in the same neighborhood as my in-laws, but not under the same roof. They must have pensions and health insurance to ensure they won't need our care for the next 20 to 30 years."

"As for you," she paused for a moment, "I require an annual income of over 300,000 yuan. Considering that men tend to become corrupt when they have money, all the money you earn and all your assets must be managed by me."

"By the way, I'm only 25 years old, and I don't want children within the first five years of marriage. Also, my salary is just enough to buy cosmetics and clothes and bags. You can't expect me to contribute to household expenses."

Zhang Qin took a sip of her coffee.

Lin Yue smiled and said, "Anything else?"

Zhang Qin put down her coffee cup. "Just the dowry. In our area, it's a bit higher than in surrounding provinces. For an ordinary family, without counting the gold jewelry, the total dowry, including the big and small gifts and the meeting gift, is about 200,000 yuan. Since I'm marrying someone from a big city, it can't be lower than that. Prepare 500,000 yuan, so my parents will have face."

At this point, a faint sadness clouded her eyes. "They worked hard to raise me for over 20 years and even supported me through college. It was really not easy."

Lin Yue always smiled. "Anything else?"

Zhang Qin shook her head. "Not for now."

"Okay." Lin Yue leaned forward, placing his arms on the edge of the table. "Let me start with myself. Last year, my monthly salary plus the year-end bonus was 180,000 yuan. My parents transferred a storefront and a three-bedroom apartment to my name when I graduated from university. The storefront generates about 240,000 yuan in rent each year. Additionally, I bought an apartment in Binjiang Garden with the money I made from stock trading in college, which also brings in a few thousand yuan in rent each year. The car I'm driving is a BMW X5, parked in the parking lot across the street."

"Regarding my family, my father works in a state-owned enterprise, and my mother is a staff member of the city's health system. Both have five insurances and one fund, and they are in good health with normal health check-up results. Most importantly, they only have me as their son."

Lin Yue straightened his back. "Are you satisfied, Miss Zhang?"

Zhang Qin smoothed her disheveled hair with her delicate hand, a faint smile on her lips.

It's so impolite to make a girl say "I do." You need to learn to observe, especially those seemingly casual little actions.

Lin Yue said, "Miss Zhang, you've listed so many conditions. Shouldn't I also be allowed to state my requirements? After all, in a blind date, some things need to be clarified in advance to avoid wasting time and energy, and I don't want to waste your youth."

Zhang Qin was a bit displeased. Although Lin Yue spoke politely and practically, how could a girl, no... a goddess, be required by someone? Aren't programmers supposed to be introverted, nerdy, and shy, labeled as "licking dogs"?

Lin Yue glanced at her ring finger, where there was a faint mark. "Miss Zhang, I have a quirk. It's fine if shoes are expensive, but they must be brand new and unopened."

"What did you say?" Zhang Qin stared at him in shock.

"Don't pretend, you know what I mean."

Lin Yue looked straight into her eyes, his expression natural, his gaze unwavering, as if to say, "You had the nerve to make such demands, so I have the right to expose your weakness."

Zhang Qin, like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, screeched, "You... you... you... pervert."

Her voice was a bit high, filled with anger, and the people around them looked over, giving Lin Yue a puzzled look.

"When you were at your most beautiful, those guys could just take you to a small hotel and get what they wanted, and you'd roll around in bed with them every few days. Now, with me, you want a high-end apartment, a three-bedroom, two-living room place to even consider marriage."

"When you were at your most beautiful, you'd travel by tricycle and bus, but now you won't ride in anything less than a 200,000 yuan private car. When you were at your most beautiful, you'd only have a few hundred yuan a month to live on with those men, but now you won't marry anyone unless they earn hundreds of thousands of yuan a year."

"When you were at your most beautiful, you'd dream of being a loving wife, cooking and cleaning for your husband, and raising children, but now you sit here and tell me to draw a line with my in-laws."

Lin Yue looked at her. "Miss Zhang, do you want me to continue?"

"You... you... you..."

Zhang Qin's face turned red, and she had no idea how to respond. She grabbed her handbag and stormed out, her high heels clacking angrily. Lin Yue's words were too harsh, and he didn't even use foul language.

She felt wronged and angry.

"Check, please."

Watching Zhang Qin leave, Lin Yue called the waiter, paid with his phone, and walked out of the café, facing the astonished gazes of the people around him.

The street was bustling with traffic and pedestrians. While waiting for the red light, he received a call.

"What? A vain, materialistic, and greedy person is complaining about my attitude?"

"Damn bitch, make her pay for the coffee."

"Skip the meal, and don't ask me to help you with this kind of thing again."

"Okay, goodbye."

Lin Yue hung up and scanned a shared bike with his phone.

Click!

"Hello, Hello Bike."

Lin Yue held the bike and looked at the BMW X5 parked in the lot, the three 8s on the license plate almost blinding his titanium dog eyes.

Actually, he had agreed to the blind date to repay a favor to a friend, just to go through the motions for the elders. The BMW, the three-bedroom, two-living room apartment, and the 500,000 yuan annual income were not his. His monthly income from running extras and writing soft articles for a Douban group was only about 5,000 yuan, barely above the average wage in this expensive city, and he couldn't even afford a toilet with a year's savings.

As he pushed the bike toward the crosswalk, Lin Yue thought, "When will these materialistic women learn to look in the mirror and see if they are monsters or princesses?"

Last night, he dreamed of becoming Wang Duo Yu from "The Billionaire," and the feeling was simply amazing.

Detecting the host's strong desire to make money.

The film world dream fulfillment system is initializing, 10%... 23%... 67%...

"What the hell?"

Lin Yue looked around, feeling a chill on his back. There was no one around, so why was he hearing voices in his ears?

System initialization complete.

Name: Lin Yue.

Race: Human.

Attributes: Constitution 5.

Strength 6.

Agility 6.

Intelligence 7.

Spirit 4.

Unallocated points: 2.

While Lin Yue was in a daze, a line of Chinese characters flashed in his mind: System reminder, please allocate attribute points first.

As long as he could make big money, he would allocate attribute points, or even cut off a piece of his flesh.

He remembered a line from the movie "Kung Fu," "All martial arts are invincible, except for speed." So he quickly allocated all his points to strength.

The attribute bar in his mind flashed and changed to a skill bar.

Skills: Acting Pro LV1 (Description: Beginner-level acting, suitable for running extras.)

Steel Bladder LV1 (Description: You can hold your urine better than an average person.)

What does "better than an average person" mean?