Lily's hand holding the phone trembled slightly. She never expected that after so many years, he would still remember that drunken, rambling promise. She wiped her slightly moist eyes and said in a tough tone, “Bastard, I turned thirty last year. I’m not young anymore. I can’t keep living on dreams. Give me something real, give me a little confidence, will you?”

“Confidence? No problem, I can ignite your little universe right away.” The man on the other end of the line said something next that made Lily's eyes light up, her little universe blazing. He spoke in a meaningful tone: “I used to say I wouldn’t consider wearing god-tier gear within five years, but now ten years have passed, and it’s time for me to keep up with the times. Tell me, if I put on a full set of god-tier gear, is there anyone who could stop me?”

Volume 1 【003】Charles Green and Mrs. Parker

May is a month that’s neither too cold nor too hot, and the afternoon sun makes people feel lazy. On the big bed in a room of a certain five-star hotel, two stunningly beautiful women were also feeling lazy. They looked at each other, both with surprise written all over their faces.

The two beauties didn’t know each other. The reason they were lying naked on the same bed was because of a man they met last night in Lan Kwai Fong.

He was a man hard to describe with words. He had the handsome face of a celebrity, and his every move naturally carried a superstar aura—top-tier, king-level superstar. His eyes seemed to spark electricity, and his voice had a kind of magic to it. In a daze, they were led by that man to the hotel, and the three strangers spent the whole night battling in the most primitive way.

After all, human stamina has its limits. Normally, the man should have been defeated, and the two women would have won. But last night was the opposite—the tall, muscular man with eight-pack abs only grew braver as the night went on, while the two girls were beaten back again and again. Now, it was already 1:30 in the afternoon, and they were still limp on the bed, unable to get up, recalling that nearly perfect man’s looks and physique. Instinctively, they thought of the legendary 【national soccer team striker】.

One of the long-legged girls was a bit more clever. When they checked in last night, she caught a glimpse of the man’s name on his ID at the hotel front desk: Charles Green… At the time, the long-legged beauty couldn’t help but laugh. How flamboyant does a man have to be to have a name that literally means “climax”?

On the afternoon of May 14th, that man named Charles Green was standing in front of an ATM checking his balance.

“Huh? Only sixteen thousand left…”

Charles Green was a bit surprised. He clearly remembered there was a hundred thousand in the account just a few days ago, and after only a few days of fun, it was almost gone. Judging by his surprised look, it was obvious this guy never had much concept of money.

“Lily, you can’t blame me for spending too much. I have my reasons. As the saying goes, after three years in prison, even a sow looks like Diao Chan. Not to mention, I was in there for seven whole years…”

Muttering to himself, ever since the strange old man in prison died three years ago, no one dared talk to Charles Green in there, so he got used to talking to himself: “Gaming equipment costs fifteen thousand, and the remaining one thousand probably isn’t enough for rent? Lily hasn’t been doing well lately either, so I won’t go to her—don’t want to hear her nag… Heh, Mrs. Parker, looks like I’ll have to catch up with you.”

……

Province S, City C, not only ranked among the top ten cities in the country, but was also known as the city with the most beautiful women in the nation.

And the university town in City C, built fifty years ago and said to house all the province’s higher education institutions, was even more packed with beauties. In the university town, you could see art school girls everywhere, run into music academy goddesses at any time, and spot the department and campus belles from the teachers’ college.

The university town’s rental market was booming, but hardly anyone bought property there—most people preferred to rent. As for why people liked renting in this area, well, everyone knows.

Mrs. Parker was a young woman who lived off collecting rent. Her parents, who died unexpectedly years ago, left her a four-bedroom, two-living-room apartment. Thanks to this apartment, she didn’t need to work, and her main activities were gaming and playing mahjong.

Originally, the apartment’s decor was average and the location wasn’t great. According to prices ten years ago, the monthly rent for one room was about RMB 1,000. Renting out the other three rooms, besides the one she lived in, would only bring in about 3,000 yuan at most. This kind of rental income couldn’t make Mrs. Parker rich, but later, because of one person, her fate changed.

Ten years ago, Mrs. Parker was just sixteen and in high school, naïve and easily deceived. A sleazy college freshman tricked her with all sorts of excuses, taking advantage of her pure feelings and owing her three months’ rent… Just as Mrs. Parker steeled herself to kick him out, that guy suddenly became famous—unbelievably famous.

He became a nationwide sensation, respectfully called Brian the Great.

Not long after, he paid off all the rent and moved into a mansion that made Mrs. Parker drool just looking at it. A few months later, a local talk show found Mrs. Parker and interviewed her about Brian the Great's past. With all the back-and-forth, Mrs. Parker became a local celebrity too.

Her apartment, strangely enough, became famous as well.