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At the market.

Fang Yu felt the gazes coming from all directions, a mixture of expectation, doubt, and disdain.

He glanced around.

Although Liu Yifei kept her head down, the slightly clenched hem of her clothes still betrayed her nervousness and a hint of anticipation.

He glanced at the fat shop owner again, who was looking at him with a smug look that said, "Kid, you're going to have to pay up today."

Fang Yu sighed deeply in his heart.

Fine.

I really didn't want to use cheats.

This is something you guys... insisted I play.

He remained outwardly calm, but his mind had already sunk into the system store in his head.

Fang Yu saw a skill while researching the system shop last night, but he didn't think it was very useful and didn't pay much attention to it.

[Throwing Mastery (Beginner): Requires 10000 Popularity Points to redeem. Effect: Grants top-tier accuracy and power control when throwing any object. Whether it's darts, basketballs, or... ring toss.]

Fang Yu glanced at his popularity score balance.

After the release of his two songs, "The Sound of Falling Snow" and "Xiao Fang," last night, his popularity has skyrocketed to an astonishing number—over 500,000.

Ten thousand points is nothing, just a drop in the ocean.

Then... let's exchange it.

Fang Yu's gaze subtly changed at that moment.

If he was just now a lazy, harmless house cat...

So now, he is a tiger about to bare its claws.

He looked up and gave the still-talking fat boss a bright, even friendly, smile.

"Boss, are you sure... you want me to play?"

The fat boss was taken aback by Fang Yu's sudden smile.

He looked into Fang Yu's eyes, and that look... it seemed different from before.

Just a moment ago, he was acting like a coward, saying, "I can't do it, I don't know how, don't bother me."

Why does it suddenly seem a little... creepy?

However, the fat boss didn't think much of it, assuming that Fang Yu had been forced into a corner and lost his temper.

He immediately put on an even bigger smile, as if afraid that the duck that was about to be eaten would fly away.

"Of course!" he patted his chest, speaking with absolute certainty. "Brother, give it a shot! Show some pride of us Northeastern men! And give your wife a surprise too!"

"OK."

Fang Yu nodded and uttered a single word.

He stopped looking at the shop owner and turned his head, his gaze sweeping over the dazzling array of prizes on the stall.

His eyes were calm, yet he had memorized the location, size, and shape of every prize.

Then, Fang Yu spoke.

"Boss, I counted all the prizes here, big and small, there must be around a hundred, right?"

The fat boss was taken aback again, then nodded subconsciously: "Ah...yes, more or less."

He wondered to himself: Why is this kid counting prizes if he doesn't look at the circle or the rules of the game?

Before he could even figure it out, Fang Yu's next words left him and everyone around him speechless.

Fang Yu took his phone out of his pocket and said to the bewildered boss:

"Do a hundred circles."

The air seemed to freeze for a moment.

Everyone stared wide-eyed, unable to believe their ears.

One hundred... circles?

What does this mean?

Twenty yuan for ten, one hundred circles, that's... two hundred yuan!

Spend two hundred yuan to play ring toss?

Is this kid crazy?

Or is your family rich?

The way the onlookers looked at Fang Yu changed instantly from "watching the show" to "looking at a fool."

"Did I hear that right? A hundred?"

"Two hundred yuan! Why throw it in the water when you could do something with it?"

"This young man seems quite shrewd, so why is he so impulsive? He got spurred on by just a few words from the boss."

Fang's mother also panicked, and she grabbed Fang Yu's arm:

"Xiaoyu! Are you crazy! Why are you buying so much? Isn't this money valuable?"

Liu Yifei was also dumbfounded.

She looked at Fang Yu, completely baffled as to why he would do such a thing.

She just hoped that Fang Yu would give it a try, to give her a way out. Even if she couldn't get a single one, it would be better than standing still.

But she didn't expect Fang Yu to spend so much money!

"Fang Yu, don't..." Liu Yifei also wanted to persuade him.

Fang Yu smiled reassuringly at her, his eyes filled with undeniable confidence.

He ignored the comments around him and just looked at the fat boss who was also in shock, and repeated it again.

"Boss, scan the code, two hundred yuan, one hundred circles."

After a full five seconds of lapse, the fat boss's brain finally restarted.

ecstasy!

Overwhelmed with immense joy, he was instantly engulfed!

He was just thinking about how to squeeze another twenty or forty yuan out of this kid.

Unexpectedly, they played a royal flush!

Two hundred yuan!

This is the biggest order he's made all day since he started his stall!

Wow! I've struck gold today! I've really met my lucky star!

"Okay! Alright!"

The fat boss reacted very quickly, fearing that Fang Yu would change his mind. He rushed forward and took out his QR code to check Fang Yu's phone.

"drop--"

"WeChat payment, 200 yuan."

A crisp notification sound rang out indicating that the funds had been credited to the account.

To the fat boss, the sound was nothing short of the most beautiful celestial music in the world.

Money in hand!

His chubby face beamed with a smile, and his attitude was a hundred times more attentive than before.

"Brother! That's awesome!" He gave Fang Yu a thumbs up. "Don't worry, I'll keep the count perfectly this time!"

It would be inconvenient to hold a hundred rings by hand.

The fat boss took out a red plastic bucket from under his stall, untied the bundles of rings, and threw them all into it.

A whole bucket full.

He handed the bucket to Fang Yu, grinning from ear to ear:

"Hey buddy, here, let me get you a bucket to put it in, it'll be easier!"

Fang Yu took the bucket, weighed it in his hand, and found it to be quite heavy.

His astonishing move has attracted the attention of the entire market area.

More and more people stopped and gathered around, wanting to see how this "sucker" who had spent two hundred yuan to rent the entire venue was going to perform.

The chat in the live stream room has gone completely crazy.

[Holy crap! Holy crap! Holy crap! One hundred circles! Two hundred bucks! Brother Yu has gone mad!]

[I'm dumbfounded, what kind of plot twist is this? I thought he'd just buy ten as a token gesture, but he actually booked the whole place?!]

[So cool! No matter how well he throws it later, just for that line 'Give me a hundred hoops,' I'll be a fan forever!]

[That's a real man! His girlfriend was wronged, and without saying a word, he just threw money at her! The method might be a little silly, but it's so manly!]

[Hey guys, aren't you getting a little too excited? What if he doesn't hit a single one out of a hundred? Wouldn't that be even more embarrassing?]

[Yeah, spending two hundred yuan to perform "human outline" a hundred times in front of a national audience—just thinking about it is thrilling.]

Oh no, I'm starting to get nervous! The work has already started on my toes!

When Sister Wang saw this scene in her office, she was so anxious that she kept slapping her thigh.

"How foolish! How could he be so foolish!"

"Isn't this tantamount to openly admitting that he's a fool with too much money? If this airs, it will severely damage his image!"

She could already imagine what tomorrow's news headlines would be.

#New idol Fang Yu spends 200 yuan on a ring toss game but wins nothing, revealing his extravagant nature#

It's over, it's over.

The reputation that had been so hard-won was about to plummet back to rock bottom.

And at this moment, in the center of everyone's attention.

Fang Yu moved.

Instead of throwing it away, he took a ring out of the bucket, held it in his hand, and gently weighed it in his hand.

It's as if you're feeling its weight and texture.

The moment Fang Yu picked up the ring.

His entire aura changed instantly.

If he had just displayed a hint of nonchalant laziness, then...

Now, he is like a drawn sword, its sharpness fully revealed.

Fang Yu's gaze became incredibly focused, as if all the noise and discussion had been shut out from him.

In his world, all that remained were the prize in front of him and the ring toss game in his hand.

Fang Yu bent down slightly, his feet shoulder-width apart, assuming a perfectly standard throwing posture.

Liu Yifei stood behind him, watching his back, and for some reason, her heart was pounding.

She felt that Fang Yu in front of her was both unfamiliar and...charming.

Fang Yu raised his hand and flicked his wrist slightly.

[Throwing Mastery] skill activated!