Financial freedom starts with cracked apps.

Chapter 31 "Living"

20g gold bar?

This reward was beyond Lin Shen's expectations.

He found money while shopping in Wujiaochang, and he found properties that improve physical health while hiking.

Based on past patterns, Lin Shen had expected to win a literary prize while relaxing on campus, but to his surprise, it was a gold bar!
vulgar!
That's so cliché!
But I like it.

Lin Shen casually checked the real-time gold price: 850 RMB/g, so 20g was equivalent to 17,000 RMB.

"Changed!"

Although gold is one of the best financial investment products, Lin Shen urgently needs money to complete the tasks of [Shoukuanbao] and increase his daily income.

Therefore, he decisively sold it.

「建设银行：您尾号7946的账户于08月04日16:32收入RMB 17000元，当前余额：184，000」

*
5 PM, East Gate of Shanghai International Studies University.

Jiang Wan smiled and extended her right hand to Gu Wanqing.

"Welcome to the English Department of Shanghai International Studies University. If you have any questions or needs, feel free to contact me on WeChat."

"Okay, thank you, Sister Jiang Wan."

After shaking hands with Gu Wanqing, Jiang Wan smiled at Lin Shen beside her.

"Let's keep in touch when you have time."

"Shall we go out for dinner together tonight?"

Lin Shen took the initiative to invite him.

"I'm really sorry to have troubled you all day."

"I have plans tonight."

Jiang Wan forced a sly smile at Lin Shen.

"How about I give you another chance next time?"

"Ok."

Lin Shen didn't insist on keeping her. After watching Jiang Wan's graceful figure leave, he felt a little regretful.

At this moment, Gu Wanqing couldn't help but sigh.

"Sister Jiang Wan is so gentle!"

"Yes."

"Brother-in-law, do you like Sister Jiang Wan?"

"like."

Seeing Gu Wanqing's meaningful smirk, Lin Shen lightly flicked her forehead.

"Who wouldn't like a beautiful and gentle older sister? Don't overthink it, we're just friends."

"Of course I know!"

Gu Wanqing covered her forehead with a wronged expression, which made Lin Shen smile.

"We won't be eating at home tonight. You pick a restaurant, it's on me."

"Then let's go with Haidilao!"

Gu Wanqing's eyes lit up, and she smiled smugly.

"I have a student discount, 12% off!"

"it is good."

Lin Shen never expected that he would still be able to enjoy such benefits so many years after graduation.

Let's enjoy a hot pot meal, something we haven't had in a long time.

*
*
Six pm.

The Operations Director's Office is located on the third floor of the Huamao Building.

"You still haven't compiled and summarized the issues that customers have raised in the online app community."

Behind her desk, Qin Yuennan tossed the report in her hand in front of Yang Qian, the team leader of Operations Group One, her expression icy cold.

"If you can't even finish this small task on time, you shouldn't be the team leader."

"Mr. Qin."

Yang Qian picked up the report from her desk, a bitter look on her face.

“This part of the work was originally Lin Shen’s responsibility, but his departure was sudden and the new employees have not yet fully adapted.”

"You mean, your team's productivity dropped by half during the three days he was away?"

Qin Yuennan crossed her fingers in front of her, her eyes cold and stern.

Are you all just sitting around doing nothing?

"..." Faced with Qin Yuennan's blunt accusations, Yang Qian was sweating profusely and could only nod and smile apologetically before slinking away from the office.

"call--!"

Qin Yuennan lay back in her office chair, covered her eyes with her arm, and sighed deeply.

After she understood Lin Shen's work ability, she guessed that the team would most likely have an adjustment period after his departure.

But she really didn't expect that the team's work efficiency would drop by more than half during the adaptation period!
Eight or nine people can't even match Lin Shen alone.
Qin Yuennan shook her head in anger.

Only then did she finally understand who was actually doing the work and who was just slacking off in the entire operations team.

But it was too late.

Qin Yuennan rubbed her aching temples as she got up, picked up her backpack, and headed to the fourth floor.

Besides improving her physical health, exercise is also her main way of relieving inner turmoil.

After changing into her quick-drying workout clothes in the locker room, Qin Yuennan subconsciously looked around the gym, but couldn't find that familiar figure.

She felt a little disappointed.

Qin Yuennan took out her phone to send a message to Lin Shen, but after pausing for two seconds, she put it back on the treadmill, muttering to herself in a slightly resentful tone.

"I'll have to ask him why he didn't come tonight."

*
*
"I'm so full!"

At 8 p.m., after leaving Haidilao, Gu Wanqing thought she would take a stroll after dinner before going back.

Lin Shen also had the same idea.

So the two wandered around and eventually came to a bookstore.

Do you have any book recommendations?

Book?
Gu Wanqing was genuinely surprised that Lin Shen would enjoy reading, and then exclaimed excitedly.

"Of course! Alive!"

"It really is this book."

Lin Shen had seen online that if a family had a bookshelf, there would always be a copy of "To Live".

"Then let's buy it and take a look."

Lin Shen also wanted to see if the book was as good as the online reviews suggested, so he asked the store manager, who immediately brought him a copy.

The blue and white landscape color scheme on the cover, along with the large word "Living," subtly touches the heart.

"Let's go."

"Ah."

Back home, Lin Shen washed up and lay in bed, just as he was about to start reading "To Live" when Qin Yuennan suddenly sent him a message.

[Qin Yuennan: You haven't been exercising lately?]
[Lin Shen: Exercising, what's wrong?]
[Qin Yuennan: Then why don't you come to the company gym?]
[Lin Shen: Can I still go even if I resign?]
[Qin Yuennan: Otherwise, why would I sign a contract with you in the company's name?]
[Lin Shen: You should have said so earlier! I'll go in a while.]
[Qin Yuennan: Okay, I'll wait for you]
wait for me?

Qin Yuenan's news stirred Lin Shen's heart, and the image of her graceful figure in yoga pants and a tank top suddenly appeared in his mind.

Having a partner like this makes exercising much more motivating!

Lin Shen put down his phone and turned to the first page of "To Live".

He plans to read for two hours today and go to bed before midnight.

After all, I made plans to go to Disneyland with Gu Wanqing tomorrow, so I need to be well-rested.

However, as Lin Shen gradually immersed himself in the deeper stories constructed from the superficial words, he became unaware of the passage of time.

Under the dim, warm light, his expression shifted between solemn and melancholy.

Two o'clock in the morning.

"call--!"

Lin Shen folded the corner of the book, closed it, and let out a long sigh of relief.

He stopped reading after the protagonist, Fugui, was captured on the battlefield and then sent back to his hometown.

The simple words create a moving story filled with deep sorrow.

This is Lin Shen's biggest feeling after reading it.

He did not experience that era, but he grasped the true meaning of "living" from the book.

Money for financial freedom?
The right to be revered by all?
None of these are as good as a healthy body.

Just being alive is good enough.

"Go to sleep, don't stay up late."

Lin Shen glanced at the time on his phone, turned off the light, and turned over to sleep.

「建设银行：您尾号7946的账户于08月05日00:01收入RMB 4000元，当前余额：188，000」

(End of this chapter)