5: Instead of confessing your feelings to others, focus on improving yourself.

In his original plan, Shen Qian wanted to take Lu Jiawang to experience a legendary Business KTV after the foot massage, but given Lu Jiawang's performance during the massage, Shen Qian felt they should take it slow.

Based on the information he had gathered, a Business KTV was much more stimulating than a foot massage.

After washing their feet, the two went their separate ways. Shen Qian went home to sleep, while Lu Jiawang continued his overnight session at the internet cafe.

“Come with me. I can't afford the foot massage, but I can still cover the internet fees.”

“No, no, no, Old Lu. I'm a man who wants to be a scumbag now. A scumbag can fight all night, but he absolutely cannot pull an unnecessary all-nighter in his daily life.”

Lu Jiawang didn't understand. He didn't know why the honest and simple Shen Qian suddenly wanted to be a scumbag, but as a brother, he could only support whatever his brother wanted to do.

The next day, Shen Qian woke up early. There was still more than a month before university started, and in this month, he needed to systematically learn how to be a scumbag.

Although confessing could get him 10,000, it was a bit like draining the pond to catch the fish. Most of the girls in his class had already deleted him.

A scumbag, of course, isn't afraid of being deleted. After all, a woman who would delete him isn't a friend anyway.

He studied cases online and extracted three elements.

1. Handsome (This doesn't necessarily refer to facial features, but a feeling. One must dress handsomely, have a handsome hairstyle, and a handsome posture).

2. Rich (This 'richness' is very particular. You can't act rich; you have to let others discover you are rich. The more low-key you usually are, the stronger the surprise will be when others find out you're wealthy).

3. Clear-headed (You always need to know what you want. When you meet a beautiful woman, you must know she might not have a good temper. When you meet one with a good temper, you have to accept she will face many temptations. No one is perfect, but a scumbag can be).

Based on these three points, Shen Qian formulated a series of plans.

Regarding being handsome, his features were okay, but his skin was a bit dark and his muscles weren't well-developed. He was too ordinary and lacked sexual tension.

Exercise is a man's best cosmetic surgery.

Shen Qian stepped out of his house and began his long run for the day.

Half an hour later, his lungs felt like a broken pair of bellows. With every breath, the broken bellows rattled with air.

“Three kilometers. I could only run three kilometers. This level of endurance isn't enough to be a scumbag!”

[Choosing to exercise for endurance. Behavior conforms to scumbag standards. Reward being issued...]

“I knew it!”

Shen Qian shakily picked up his phone and was surprised to find that this time, the reward wasn't 10,000 yuan, but 15,000!

“Different behaviors really do yield different rewards. Compared to blindly casting a net, spending time and energy on self-improvement brings higher rewards!”

He was somewhat moved. How was this a scumbag tycoon system? This was clearly a Self-Improvement Tycoon System.

Although the reward had increased, he only had one body. Three kilometers was already his limit for today; he couldn't do more exercise just for the reward.

Once his mind was open, there were so many things he could do.

[Choosing to perform Kegels for endurance. Behavior conforms to scumbag standards. Reward being issued...]

[Choosing to get a swimming card for endurance. Behavior conforms to scumbag standards. Reward being issued...]

[Striking up a conversation with a female fitness trainer to learn fitness knowledge and obtaining her contact info. Behavior conforms to scumbag standards. Reward being issued...]

...In just one day, Shen Qian's savings reached 300,000. As long as it was related to self-improvement, the rewards were 15,000. He was now very curious about what kind of behavior would be worth 20,000 or even more.

[scumbag behavior points have exceeded 100. Would you like to perform a 10-pull draw?]

After Shen Qian sent a follow-up message to the female fitness trainer he just met, the system gave a prompt.

“I can do a 10-pull? Then I definitely must!”

Suddenly, a light screen flowed before his eyes. Countless gold cards were stacked together, then rotated into a circle. A transparent arrow appeared in the void, and the gold cards spun around until one randomly stopped in front of the golden arrow.

Bang, bang, bang!

Shen Qian had played gacha games before and generally knew how it worked. However, the probabilities in gacha games were always lowered. He didn't know if this system was honest.

As if understanding Shen Qian's thoughts.

A line of small text immediately appeared under the rotating cards.

[Level 1 System: Every 10-pull is guaranteed to produce one gold card.]

The 10 cards were quickly drawn. Two cards erupted with golden light. Of the remaining eight, three were purple and five were blue.

On the blue cards, there were three simple words: cash card.

Shen Qian clicked on one of them.

[Use one cash card to receive a reward of 666 yuan.]

“Whoa, a red envelope. But 666 is a bit low compared to those 10,000 yuan scumbag rewards.”

“But hey, even mosquito legs are meat~”

Shen Qian immediately used the other cash cards. The highest was 999 yuan, and the lowest was only 333 yuan. After using the five cash cards, Shen Qian had over 3,000 yuan more.

Of the three purple cards, two were labeled 'cashback card' and one was labeled 'reimbursement card'.

“System, what do these two mean?”

[cashback card: For consumption amounts within 200,000, a random multiplier of one to five times will be applied for cashback.]

[reimbursement card: Reimburse any consumption within 200,000.]

“Are there any restrictions on this consumption? Like, do they have to be used when picking up girls?”

[Items drawn using scumbag points have no usage restrictions.]

“Then can these two cards be used cumulatively?”

Shen Qian's eyes lit up as he accurately noticed that the amounts for both cards were 200,000. That is to say, if he went to buy something worth 200,000 and used both cards together, not only would he not have to pay a cent, but he could also trigger the multi-fold cashback. Suppose he spent 200,000 and got a maximum 5x cashback—that would be 1,000,000. But in reality, he would only net 800,000 since the 200,000 was actually spent.

But if he used the reimbursement card and then the cashback card, it would be equivalent to him paying nothing, getting the item, and still getting the cashback.

[They can be used cumulatively.]

“So the limits for both the cashback card and the reimbursement card are only 200,000?”

[The current system level limit is 200,000 yuan.]

“Good, good, good. As long as it levels up, the amount that can be cashed back or reimbursed won't be just 200,000 in the future.”

Regarding the final two gold cards, Shen Qian saw they were labeled 'skill card' and 'copy card' respectively.

“I can understand the skill card; it should give me a random skill. But what is this copy card?”

[skill card: Randomly obtain a skill.]

[copy card: Randomly copy a skill from someone else.]

“Comprehensive, so comprehensive!”

With the system being so helpful, Shen Qian naturally couldn't fall behind. He started doing push-ups on the spot.

[Exercising muscles to be a scumbag. Behavior conforms to scumbag standards. Reward being issued...]

“System, I've got nothing else to say. You are my god!”