System: Master Your Life

Chapter 875 218: New Year's Approaching, Game Ready to Launch (Career)_2

"Five hundred grams, why don't you go to the market and see how much five hundred grams of pork or beef costs? You're 1.75 meters tall, not 1.5. Five hundred grams of meat distributed over your whole body is practically invisible, got it? Damn, stop watching those dumb TikTok weight loss videos. These idiots just spread anxiety. Our Xu Family pursues healthy beauty."

Xu Lin: "Don't worry about that."

"But will I get fatter?"

"If you don't binge eat, how could you gain much weight? But speaking of which, you bought so many snacks tonight. Do you know why girls get fat? Snacks and milk tea. If you consume too much of these, it's hard not to get fat."

"Ah! What should I do then?"

"Just drink less milk tea and eat fewer snacks. How simple is that?"

Xu Lin: "But let's not get off track with these random topics."

Damn, when handling business, why talk about random crap?

Xu Lin really likes Rong Xiyi's big moon.

After all, at Rong Xiyi's level, besides her, only big sister Chi Linyue has it; even Director Pei falls a bit short.

The big moon has more flesh. Only those who experience it know. It's definitely not something those who are pale, young, and thin can compare to. With the latter, you can feel the bones after just a few pushes.

Are we challenging a skeleton here?

Girls who are too thin or very fat shouldn't take off their clothes. The same goes for guys; skinny dogs and fatties—taking off clothes won't look good.

The battle started at midnight and went on until six the next day.

Xu Lin woke up at nine in the morning and worked out for two hours.

Shortly after finishing his exercise, Rong Xiyi woke up.

"Xu Lin, where are we going to play today?"

"Not playing, I'm busy, and don't you have to study?"

"Ah, I forgot!"

Rong Xiyi just remembered she still needed to study.

Actually, even if Rong Xiyi didn't study, it would be fine. For a top student, studying is just about filling in the gaps and aiming for high scores. Rong Xiyi's goal is a perfect GPA, being the top of her major.

Of course, that's excluding the special case of Xu Lin.

Rong Xiyi: "Are you staying here today?"

"I'm staying here."

"Hmph! I thought you'd go back over there!"

The "over there" Rong Xiyi mentioned is the duplex.

She figured, as long as Xu Lin was here today, it was fine.

The current primary goal is to study well and wait until exams are over to have fun.

At noon, the two ordered takeout and then started working on their own tasks.

Rong Xiyi studied in her room.

Xu Lin was busy in the gaming room, continuing to develop his game.

When a game starts, it doesn't need to show the entire world map at once. As the story develops, the map gradually expands.

Currently, Xu Lin has released the map of one country.

The overall worldview of this game resembles a vast universe with several worlds.

The story begins in a world that is round like heaven and square like earth, in a small dynasty, which is also one of the main worlds.

Above the many dynasties is an Imperial Court, which is the residence of the Human Emperor, the master of humanity. But this concept should be introduced later, as the story unfolds gradually.

For the beginning of the story, just having a small country's map is sufficient.

Thus, launching Xu Lin's game is simple because there's only that much content at the start.

His code is highly advanced and concise; what takes others ten thousand lines of code, Xu Lin can do in less than four thousand. Therefore, he doesn't need to spend a lot of time.

For the next four days, Xu Lin stayed at the big house to complete the game.

He worked during the day and enjoyed carefree nights with Rong Xiyi. One could say he made up for what he owed her during this period.

On the fifth day.

The last day of 2026.

"I need to accompany senior sister tonight, so you'll have to find Yaoyao for New Year's Eve."

Xu Lin: "Let me make it clear, I've been with you these past days, and I haven't spent time with senior sister yet."

"Got it, I'll spend New Year's Eve with Yaoyao tonight!"

In the past few days, Rong Xiyi had been well taken care of by Xu Lin; she was radiant, free from any of the resentful feelings of a secluded housewife.

"Don't go to crowded places, it's not good to join in the fun. New Year's Eve is crowded."

"Mmm-hmm!"

Xu Lin thought New Year's Eve was pointless, just a bunch of people joining in the fun, swarming together. It's more crowded than any other time, especially when a group of people gather to watch a giant screen countdown at midnight. Really, it's chest-to-back, shoulder-to-shoulder.

In the morning, Xu Lin returned to the duplex. Ning Yuhuan was still over at the school.

Xu Lin continued to work during the day, giving his game one final polish.

At noon, he contacted Alibaba Cloud's service provider to buy the latest Shenlong Cloud Server.

And he went for the highest configuration.

He bought three thousand units at once.

What's the annual rent?

1.2852 billion.

That's 107.1 million per month.

Actually, Xu Lin originally planned to rent ten thousand units at once to make it a round number.

However, ten thousand units would cost 4.284 billion annually, which is more than 350 million per month.

Xu Lin couldn't possibly afford that.

So he started with three thousand units to test the waters.

He also temporarily rented them for a quarter.

Depending on the number of players later, he'd increase the servers as needed.

The Alibaba Cloud service providers all knew Young Master Xu's account. You know, in the past, Xu Lin had purchased their cloud servers ever since he started with a personal website, beginning with just a few units.

Until last time, he bought a thousand enterprise-level cloud servers.

Now he's directly upgraded to a big purchase of three thousand third-generation Shenlong Cloud Servers, with the highest configuration.

This transaction was naturally resolved quickly.

The higher-ups at Alibaba Cloud knew Young Master Xu was back to buy servers again, so they agreed readily.

In the country, there are three top cloud service providers: Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, and Huawei Cloud, all quite similar. Young Master Xu chose Alibaba Cloud, and they were cautious, fearing that if he wasn't happy, there'd be no future business opportunities.