Reader advisory ~ quick note before you start

Heads up: this novel contains themes and scenes that some readers may find upsetting or morally troubling.

Main content concerns:

1. Coercion and blackmail: many of the protagonist’s relationships begin or continue through coercive means, including blackmail.

2. Dubious or pressured consent: the book includes sexual encounters where consent is ambiguous, pressured, or ignored.

3. Abusive dynamics presented as romance: controlling and possessive behavior is often framed by the story as an acceptable or romantic part of the harem relationships.

What the story does offer:

If you can look past those problematic elements, the novel is a fast-paced wish-fulfillment tale about ambition and reinvention. The protagonist uses foreknowledge to navigate entrepreneurship, tech startups, and web fiction, rising from a broke student to a successful business magnate.

Reader guidance

This is intended for adult readers. If the warnings above make you uncomfortable, this book is likely not for you. If you do read it, please be aware of these themes going in.

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Chapter 1: Supermarket Arrest

『There will be spicy/steamy scenes within 50 chapters. If not, I’ll be the spicy one myself!』

In 2010 at Baixing Supermarket in Wolong County.

It was summer, the sunlight blazed outside while cicadas droned, and the fan sent the “Mad God” on the register fluttering noisily.

Chen Fan stared with unfocused pupils, blankly swept his gaze around the cramped, shabby little supermarket, and finally fixed on a furtive figure in the corner.

She wore a striped T-shirt and a black skirt that showed off a perfect figure, and her fair, radiant calves made one’s heart stir.

Her face was even more exquisite and flawless, her brows arched like willow leaves and her eyes held autumn water, and her long hair was tied into two small braids that fell naturally.

She looked pure yet carried a trace of playfulness, and anyone who saw her could not help taking a second look.

Only at this moment her manner inexplicably gave off a petty, sneaky sleaziness, which ruined her aura completely.

Li Miaoyi!

Chen Fan recognized the newcomer; it was the young version of the Wolong campus belle, the future web novelist of some renown, Li Miaoyi!

Chen Fan was himself a part-time web writer, and after pinching his own butt, he quickly understood his current situation.

(He reincarnated!)

Before Chen Fan could get excited, Li Miaoyi, backpack on her shoulders and a bag of chips in her hand, walked over this way with nervous unease.

Anyone who was not a fool could see that something was wrong.

Yet someone back then was exactly that fool!

Dead memories suddenly surged into Chen Fan’s mind like a tide.

That summer, there was just a man and a woman in the supermarket, he joked about whether she had stolen, she said she hadn’t, and he watched her walk away.

Damn!

“Chen Fan, I want to buy a bag of chips.”

The two were in the same class, so Li Miaoyi naturally knew Chen Fan, and with a flicker in her eyes she handed over a 10 yuan note.

It was still 2010, when smartphones were not yet widespread, let alone QR code payments.

Chen Fan glanced at the posted price list, took the money, made change, and, just as in his memories, joked, “Li Miaoyi, you dawdled in there for so long; you aren’t stealing something, are you?”

“No… no…”

Li Miaoyi looked flustered, clutching her backpack with her body tense, and even her speech stuttered.

Is that your acting?

Chen Fan shook his head and sighed, thinking he had been far too naive back then.

Now Chen Fan would not make the same mistake; he looked her over from head to toe… the exquisite face, the heaving figure, and the pale, tender calves.

“I don’t quite believe you; wait here and don’t move, I’m going to check the stock.”

Chen Fan made as if to leave, and the guilty Li Miaoyi cried out in panic, “I really didn’t; if you don’t believe me, I’ll let you check…”

Huh?

Chen Fan turned back suspiciously and said, “Are you sure?”

As a small shop, Baixing Supermarket had no surveillance.

And as a reincarnator, Chen Fan could not remember exactly what was missing, so he had only been trying to scare Li Miaoyi just now.

He had not expected Li Miaoyi to actually let him check; was she this confident?

Li Miaoyi bit her red lips and slowly handed over her pink backpack.

Chen Fan unceremoniously pulled open the zipper, and inside were a small mirror, a notebook, sanitary pads, and cotton panties.

He drew a sharp breath.

Li Miaoyi watched helplessly as Chen Fan checked her personal belongings, her pretty face flushing crimson, and she said in a trembling voice, “Now you should believe me, right?”

I don’t believe it!

Chen Fan rummaged through the backpack and found no evidence, yet the doubt in his heart did not lessen in the least.

Not to mention that Li Miaoyi’s behavior reeked of overcompensating.

In his previous life, after the proprietress docked his pay, Chen Fan took the chance the next day while filling out college applications to question Li Miaoyi.

Although Li Miaoyi still did not admit it, she later compensated him with 1,000 yuan.

All of this indicated there was definitely something fishy!

Zipping up the backpack and setting it aside, Chen Fan let his gaze fall on Li Miaoyi’s shapely figure.

Chen Fan vaguely remembered that the missing items were all small things, which might well be hidden somewhere on her body.

For example, the bulge on her chest was highly suspicious.

“W-what are you trying to do…”

Li Miaoyi stepped back and instinctively crossed her arms over her chest.

Chen Fan was a law-abiding young man, so he suppressed his bold idea and continued to intimidate her as he said:

“Li Miaoyi, your behavior is very suspicious; confess and you will be treated leniently, resist and you will be punished severely. For the sake of being classmates, take the items out and I can let bygones be bygones; otherwise, if I find evidence, don’t blame me for calling the police!”

“I… I really didn’t…”

Li Miaoyi was frightened, her voice edging toward tears, and her left hand unconsciously reached toward the side of her skirt.

Just then, an unfriendly voice came from outside the door.

“Chen Fan, what are you doing, bullying our Miaoyi?”

In walked a yellow-haired girl in a strappy top, dressed very provocatively, though there was not much to show.

Chen Fan remembered this girl too.

This was Li Miaoyi’s bestie, Huang Kexin, who shirked her studies and liked to fool around outside, and later even got an STD.

He also could not understand why someone like Li Miaoyi, a model student in the eyes of teachers and classmates, would hang around with a little delinquent.

“I suspect she stole something from the store; is it not allowed for me to question her?”

“Tch! Our Miaoyi is pretty, gets good grades, and has money at home; does she look like someone who would steal? I think you just failed at confessing and are deliberately trying to disgust Miaoyi!”

Huang Kexin’s tone was sharp, as if she had expected this scene, and she rattled off at Chen Fan without faltering, deliberately raising her voice to draw in the passersby.

Chen Fan frowned and, after a moment’s thought, remembered that there really had been a confession.

But it was not he who confessed; a so-called good buddy of his had handed in a love letter in his name, saying it was just a joke.

He and Li Miaoyi had only an ordinary relationship in high school, so the outcome was, of course, a failure.

Chen Fan did not care at the time.

Who knew that when he went to question Li Miaoyi the next day while filling in applications, Huang Kexin exposed the matter in front of everyone.

In the end, Chen Fan failed to question her and instead became a clown and a laughingstock.

Even though Li Miaoyi later compensated him 1,000 yuan, he still sank into a slump and moped for a long time.

The more he thought about it, the angrier he grew, and he could not be bothered to respond to Huang Kexin’s clamor; he gave Li Miaoyi an ultimatum: “Li Miaoyi, I’ll give you one last chance; I really am going to call the police!”

“Who are you trying to scare; we are upright and aboveboard, and who’s afraid of you calling the police!”

Huang Kexin cut in before the flustered Li Miaoyi could speak, her tone even more arrogant, and a trace of expectant smugness flickered in her eyes.

The onlookers outside were also voicing their opinions, many of them thinking that such a pretty girl could not possibly do something bad.

Chen Fan gave a deep look at Li Miaoyi, who was anxious and afraid yet did not dare to step forward, then took out his off-brand phone and dialed the police.

This move completely broke down Li Miaoyi’s defenses, but before she could speak, Huang Kexin forcibly grabbed her again.

“Miaoyi, don’t panic; he is just putting on a show, and I don’t believe he really dares!”

As she spoke, Huang Kexin even shot Li Miaoyi a look, as if to say that with people all around, admitting it would ruin her reputation.

Li Miaoyi’s mind was in turmoil, sweat seeped from her smooth forehead, and her eyes filled with regret.

She really had lost her mind to be led by Huang Kexin into seeking thrills by stealing…

But Chen Fan paid her no mind; if you did something wrong, you had to pay the price, and she could save her regret for the police!