Chapter 2: This Is Investment!

Gift-Offering Bonding System?

The name alone felt off. The details about the system’s target gift recipients, with its tenfold return and other such descriptions, seemed even stranger. Was it saying that if he gave Lin Ke’er a gift, the system would return ten times the value to him? Was this some kind of simp system?

Ye Chen immediately accessed the system’s full details. Soon, the system’s description appeared before him.

“This system is the Gift-Offering Bonding System.”

“As long as a suitable gift is given to the appropriate recipient, a return will be granted.”

“The recipient must meet the following criteria: beauty over 90 points, physique over 90 points, must possess spiritual roots, be a cultivator, and be a maiden.”

“Based on the recipient’s specific qualities and cultivation level, the system will provide a different multiplier of gift return.…”

“The return may be a quantity increase or a quality improvement, determined by the system and based on the host’s needs.”

“Gifts cannot exceed the cultivation needs of the female cultivator. If the gift is deemed unsuitable, the system will reject the transaction and not provide any return.”

“If the gift holds significant importance to the recipient and causes a strong emotional reaction, an additional reward may be granted.”

“Only one gift return may be triggered per week.”

Upon reading this, Ye Chen was utterly confused. This system was quite something. Gifting items would result in a return, and if the gift was something the female cultivator desperately needed, there could even be an additional reward. Wasn’t this just the path of cultivation for the ultimate simp?

Even the system was trying to turn people into simps…. What the hell was going on in this world? But with this system, Ye Chen realized that he might not need to give up on cultivation after all!

“Fellow Daoist Ye?”

Lin Ke’er noticed that Ye Chen was staring at her face, lost in thought, instead of responding. She raised an eyebrow in slight confusion.

In truth, Lin Ke’er had little regard for Ye Chen. His cultivation was weak, and although he had the backing of a small family, he was only at the third level of Qi Refining. But there was a crucial difference: Lin Ke’er was a loose cultivator.

Ye Chen had family resources, yet here he was, lagging behind in cultivation, which only meant one thing: His aptitude was poor, and he most likely possessed a low-grade spiritual root. The only thing Ye Chen could offer was his alchemy talent.

But Lin Ke’er doubted even that. The pills he made were mostly low-grade Qi Gathering Pills, with not a single mid-grade one to his name. A cultivator like him had no future.

Unless he somehow earned a spot in the Qingyun Sect, he was destined to be just a passing figure in her life. He was certainly not the ideal Dao partner.

However, Lin Ke’er didn’t let any of these thoughts show on her face. After all, to her, Ye Chen still had some use. Even if his pills were of poor quality, they were still pills. Twenty low-grade Qi Gathering Pills were equivalent to a low-grade spirit stone. Her monthly salary barely amounted to three low-grade spirit stones. So she simply smiled lightly, hoping to snap Ye Chen out of his daze.

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Ye Chen, hearing her voice, snapped back to reality. As he looked at Lin Ke’er, his gaze had completely changed. He hated being a simp. But what irked him even more was Lin Ke’er constantly taking without giving anything in return. A typical green tea attitude.