Chapter 38: Starting as a Rich Second Generation (Patreon)

【Medical Expertise (Green): You possess exquisite medical skills and are proficient in all kinds of medical knowledge. You have a profound and unique understanding of disease diagnosis and treatment, enabling you to provide patients with precise and comprehensive treatment plans.】

【Silver Tongue (Green): Your lies are more easily believed by others.】

【Sleazy Demeanor (Blue): Your sleazy demeanor completely undermines your good looks. On the subway, even the ugliest of fairies could confidently shout, "Pervert!" in your presence, and even if both your hands were gripping the handrails half a car away from her, you would still be viewed with suspicion.】

【Immense Wealth (Blue): Your superpower is being rich. Your family fortune is enough for you to enjoy for several lifetimes (by Xianzhou native standards).】

【Fat Head and Big Ears (Green): Your height equals your width. The massive amount of fat can reduce the damage you take, but it's utterly useless.】

Victor nodded with satisfaction. The quality of the traits rolled this time was quite good; he had definitely gotten a lucky draw.

Especially the only Gold-tier trait, which was clearly no ordinary item.

Unfortunately, this trait was like an exhibit in a luxury store: you could look and you could touch, but you just couldn't afford it.

As for the remaining trait, Victor ultimately chose 'Immense Wealth (Blue)'.

He was completely broke at the moment. If Jingliu and Feixiao came after him on the Luofu, he wouldn't even have enough credits to buy a ship ticket to escape.

Soon, the simulation began.

【Age 0: You are born into the family of a top-tier wealthy merchant on the Luofu Xianzhou.】

【Age 1: During your first birthday's 'zhuazhou' ceremony, you immediately grab an abacus.】

【Your father beams with joy. Your family is quite wealthy, and your father hopes for you to inherit the family business and take the family's fortune to the next level.】

【It is said that several entire blocks in Aurum Alley and the Exalting Sanctum are your family's property. Your family holds shares in all seven major commerce guilds under the Sky-Faring Commission. Your family's total assets rank high on the Luofu Xianzhou's list of the wealthy.】

Because the Gold-tier benefit was a trait that affected personal strength, the Blue-tier 'Immense Wealth' ended up influencing his family background instead.

Starting as a second-generation heir wasn't so bad. He could just treat it as playing a real-life version of Monopoly.

No sooner had Victor thought this than reality slapped him in the face.

【Age 2: Your father hires a large number of private tutors, hoping you will mature quickly.】

【Ages 3, 4... 16: You live through a not-so-wonderful childhood.】

【To prepare you to inherit the family business as soon as possible, your father desperately cultivates you from a young age. While other children are playing, you can only stay at home listening to tutors' lessons.】

【However, it turns out that you have no particular talent for business. Through steady accumulation, you learn a great deal of business-related knowledge, but that's the extent of it.】

【You lack the flashes of inspiration of a business genius, nor do you have a genius's sharp mind. At your level, merely preserving the family's assets is the absolute limit.】

【Your father clearly understood a certain principle: it's better to let your descendants indulge in debauchery than to let an untalented heir blindly start a business.】

What's that saying again? It's not the young master's debauchery you fear, but the young master's desire to prove himself.

【Therefore, he directly lowered his expectations for you.】

【Although he lowered his expectations, he didn't give up completely. So he went through great pains, using his connections, to find a fiancée for you.】

【This fiancée of yours is a Foxian, quite a bit older than you, but her nearly perfect business record has earned your father's approval.】

【She is the chief representative of the Sky-Faring Commission's 'Spurfire' Commerce Guild, Miss Tingyun, renowned for her sharp mind and eloquence.】

【Miss Tingyun possesses a business acumen and talent on par with the top elites of the IPC. She has achieved numerous remarkable successes for the 'Spurfire' Commerce Guild, at one point even allowing its strength to surpass the other six guilds, making it the number one commerce guild under the Sky-Faring Commission.】

The Sky-Faring Commission is one of the Xianzhou's Six Charioteers, and the seven largest commerce guilds belong to it. From this perspective, 'Spurfire' seems to be a state-owned enterprise type of organization.

No wonder when Victor played Star Rail, something always felt a bit strange. Miss Tingyun and the other employees of the 'Spurfire' Commerce Guild didn't seem like colleagues in a cutthroat rat race, but more like coworkers with a competitive relationship. Since they were all just working stiffs, why would they work themselves to death?~

【Under the arrangement of both families, you meet with Tingyun. Both families are very satisfied, and Miss Tingyun does not object.】

【Miss Tingyun, being well-versed in business operations, knows that you are almost the best choice for her husband. Your family is a shareholder in the seven major commerce guilds, and she is a high-level executive at the 'Spurfire' Commerce Guild. A marriage between you two would be a union of powerful forces, which is very common among great families.】

【Moreover, you are handsome and have no bad habits, making you a top-tier choice for a husband.】

【Only your attitude is lukewarm, seemingly indifferent. After returning home, your father gives you a harsh scolding.】

【You pay it no mind. Miss Tingyun is indeed very beautiful, with a gentle personality, a model of a perfect wife.】

【But her capabilities are too strong. It's foreseeable that in the future, your father will definitely have her slowly take over the family business.】

【At that point, even if she herself has no such intention, it will become an established fact.】

【It's not to say it's bad. Letting Miss Tingyun manage the family business would make things easier and more pleasant for you. It's just that the pressure from above would be greater.】

【This is probably a common problem among bad men.】

【When you don't have a wife, you complain that there's no one to share the pressure. After you get a wife, you complain that she's too capable and puts too much pressure on you.】

【Most importantly, you don't really want to get married at this time. After all, marriage adds another layer of restraint, and some things would be harder to do.】

【Feeling a bit vexed, you wander around the Exalting Sanctum by yourself.】

【At this moment, you are attracted by a clamorous sound and involuntarily walk towards it.】

【You see a lively, orange-haired young woman performing on the street while live-streaming.】

【You watch from the periphery for a while, finding the girl rather interesting. Following her instructions, you follow her live-streaming account and also learn her name—Guinaifen.】

【After returning home, bored out of your mind, you casually open the girl's live stream.】

【In the stream, the girl is happily greeting her audience while continuing with her various bizarre performances.】

【You watch as the girl eats noodles while doing a handstand, only to sneeze, causing the noodles to shoot right out of her nostrils.】

【Seeing this, you burst out laughing. It has been a long time since you've seen someone so hilarious.】

【After laughing, you feel much more relaxed and casually tip her 100,000 credits. At the same time, you quietly commit her name to memory and begin to look into her background in secret.】