Regardless of everyone's worries, Feng Yongrui entered first grade smoothly, and nothing extraordinary happened.
Yin Longshen turned fourteen years old without any hassle either, and he was now friends with [daylily900].
At first, Yin Longshen was reluctant to talk to [daylily900] because he seemed like a suspicious guy. However, after conversing with [daylily900] for some time, Yin Longshen gradually came to admire him.
Although his way of speaking was frivolous and Yin Longshen considered him too talkative, Yin Longshen saw that [daylily900] was very smart and knew what he was doing.
After conversing for some time, the two of them eventually clicked. [daylily900] saw Yin Longshen as a natural-born genius, while Yin Longshen saw the other as a mentor-like figure who could help him and fill in the gaps in his knowledge.
Yin Longshen had also made several other friends in the coding community: [cookies_forever], [nie_nie], and [waiting_fire].
[cookies_forever] was a coding maniac who stumbled upon Yin Longshen and came to admire him. He was somewhat like Yin Longshen's loyal follower.
[nie_nie] was part of the coding community, but his skills were really poor. At least, compared to Yin Longshen and [cookies_forever], his skills were really average. He was very talkative and liked playing online games.
As for [waiting_fire], this person specialized in hacking and was quite close with Yin Longshen, because he wasn't very talkative. He was taciturn and straight to the point, making Yin Longshen like him a lot.
Since Yin Longshen had gotten closer to [daylily900], whose real name was Peng Hui, Yin Longshen had confessed that he was under aged. Yin Longshen also confided about his plans on making money to Peng Hui.
Peng Hui did not know that Yin Longshen was actually from the Yin family, so he was willing to help Yin Longshen open a bank account.
The bank account was opened under Peng Hui's name, but the money belonged to Yin Longshen. Yin Longshen had already started creating some software and selling them online.
Whenever he sold them, he would get his payment through the bank account that Peng Hui had registered for him.
Yin Longshen also earned money by fixing bugs that belonged in several small companies' software. He didn't earn that much at first, because he was new to the business, but he soon gained several loyal customers.
The pay wasn't enormous, but Yin Longshen was quite proud of himself. After all, the feeling of earning money by yourself is different than receiving pocket money from others. There was a certain feeling of accomplishment.
Meanwhile, Feng Yongrui was having a bit of trouble because of two things.
The first one was regarding Feng Yongrui's identity as the Taoist Monk. When Feng Yongrui first pretended to be a monk, his main purpose was to visit the Yin family and convince them that Yin Longshen could stay near himself ("Yin Yongrui").
After that visit with the Yin family, though, the Taoist Monk's fame continued to spread. Ever since the Taoist Monk saved Tan Jiuming's life, the Tan family became his number one advocate.
Wang Xiamei was constantly flooded with texts, calls, and a few people even gave her gifts, hoping she would introduce them to the notorious monk who had saved the Tan family heir.
Wang Xiamei was bombarded with so many things that she became rather stressed. She had contacted Feng Yongrui and told him that he had so many "customers" that she might need an assistant to help her organize his schedule.
Feng Yongrui almost immediately refused. His goal had been achieved, so he did not want to pretend to be a Taoist Monk anymore. After all, he wasn't the real deal... So Feng Yongrui told Wang Xiamei that he would be retiring.
When Wang Xiamei heard that he wanted to quit, she was dumbfounded. Wasn't he the one who said he wanted to help as many people as possible?
Why was he suddenly quitting? Wang Xiamei could not believe it, so she turned to the Tan family and asked them to help her.
When the Tan family heard that Feng Yongrui wanted to retire, they, too, tried to persuade him to continue. After negotiating for some time, they finally came to an agreement.
The Taoist Monk (aka Feng Yongrui) would help only 10 people every 3 months. As for who those 10 people were, it was up to the Tan family as well as Wang Xiamei.
Over the past few years, Feng Yongrui had occasionally placed his doppelganger at home and pretended to be the Taoist Monk so that he could help others. However, now that he was 7 years old, he wanted to stop becoming the monk.
Feng Yongrui was getting older, and Yin Longshen was getting smarter as well. When he was younger, Feng Yongrui could fool the nanny easily, but Feng Yongrui was afraid that his intuitive older brother would notice something.
The two of them also shared a room together... what if Yin Longshen discovered something?
Feng Yongrui also knew that he would be busier than before because he was scheming to hurt himself (with his other identity, Xiao Xiong). So Feng Yongrui had told Wang Xiamei that he planned to stop.
Alas, Wang Xiamei was reluctant to part with him. She tried to persuade him many times.
"Sir, if you are tired of becoming a monk, you can just stay with the Tan family. They will definitely give you food and drinks for the rest of your life," she said.
"Or... if you are getting older and you don't like traveling long distances, then it's okay. The Tan family will be willing to send their chaffeur to pick you up every time you need to help someone..."
"If you want, you can just tell me where you live... Where is your temple? Just tell us, and I'm sure the Tan family will help you... Do you need donations or any kind of help?"
"Please, Sir, so many people have been helped by you... You can't just stop like this..." Wang Xiamei said.
Feng Yongrui: "..."
What started as a small "business" became real.... This was quite burdensome, so Feng Yongrui was struggling with this matter.
The second problem was Feng Yongrui's debt. Previously, in order to buy the "Shapeshifting" Skill, Feng Yongrui agreed to borrow money (points) from the System and pay it back later with a 10% interest rate.
In total, Feng Yongrui had to pay back 55,000 points. Assuming that Feng Yongrui did one Daily Mission each day (5 points for 1 mission), then he would get 1,825 points in one year.
Doing the math, this meant that Feng Yongrui needed 30 years to pay back his debt.
Feng Yongrui: =_=
30 years? He probably wouldn't stay in this world for that long!
Feng Yongrui felt that this progress was too slow, so he wanted to do more than one Daily Task each day. However, this was easier said than done.
There would be three Daily Missions each day, with three different levels of difficulty. The "easy" ones were generally alright, but the "medium" and "hard" ones were really Feng Yongrui's nightmare.
There was this one Daily Mission that told him to cheat during his exam. Feng Yongrui could not and did not want to do it.
There was another Daily Mission that told him to put worms inside his teacher's food. Another mission told him to start a fire in his classroom.
Feng Yongrui thought the System was really bored. Why was it giving him meaningless and harmful tasks like these?
Was it trying to get him into trouble or something?
Feng Yongrui did not like his Daily Missions, but he didn't want to stay in the System's debt forever, so he had to think of another way to pay back his debt.
Feng Yongrui thought of what the System had once said. It said that real money could be used and converted into the System's points.
"Is there a converting ratio or something?" Feng Yongrui asked the System.
"One dollar is equal to one point, Host," the System replied.
"I see..." Feng Yongrui fell silent.
Now that he had the identity of "Xiao Xiong", he wanted to use that identity to scheme his way into Yin Longshen's future company.
"But to do that, I have to have work experience..." Feng Yongrui muttered. "So I guess I have to find a job. This way, I'll be gaining work experience, and I'll also be able to earn money to pay back my debt!"
"It'll be hitting two birds with one stone!" Feng Yongrui exclaimed happily.
Alright, that matter was decided. But... what job was he supposed to have?
"Xiao Xiong"'s entire history was fake. His birth was fake, his education was also fake...
"Tsk, it's so troublesome," Feng Yongrui complained as he racked his brains.
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Feng Yongrui: I don't want to be a monk anymore.
Wang Xiamei: Didn't you say that you want to help people? Why are you stopping now??
Feng Yongrui: ...I regret saying that.
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