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Chapter 026: Money-Making Plan
🕑 Added 2025-09-20 05:29:35 +0000 UTCThere were five minutes left before class started, and many students started walking into the classroom, but two people did the opposite. They hurried out of the classroom, almost following Zheng Yuanda who had just left. One was Wang Xiaoyan and the other was Li Xiaoguang.
This unusual behavior immediately attracted Lin Junyi's attention. He secretly wondered if Wang Xiaoyan and Li Xiaoguang were called out by Zheng Yuanda?
Yes, he guessed right!
"When did Lin Junyi sit at the same table with Gu Qing?"
In a corner of the corridor on the second floor, Zheng Yuanda held the stair railing with his back to Wang Xiaoyan and Li Xiaoguang, and asked them in a stern tone, obviously still very angry.
"After class 001," Li Xiaoguang replied quietly. He and Wang Xiaoyan's parents both worked at the Zheng Group, founded by Zheng Yuanda's father. The family's financial resources were controlled by the Zheng family. Therefore, at school, it was natural for them to try to curry favor with the eldest son of the Zheng family.
After all, identity determines status, and if you are in a different class, you can only choose to obey.
"Oh? They were just moved together today? Is Zhao Kaishun crazy?" Zheng Yuanda sneered. "Only an old devil like him could come up with such a rotten idea as to have the worst student in the class sit next to the best student."
"Lin Junyi insisted." Wang Xiaoyan briefly recounted to Zheng Yuanda what had happened in physics class this morning. She hoped Zheng Yuanda would use his influence to move Jiang Xiaoyu and Gu Qing back to their seats. She didn't want to sit next to Jiang Xiaoyu, the pig-like figure who slept all day and whose grades were abysmal. Ever since they became deskmates, she'd been annoyed by everything about him. She couldn't concentrate on her studies anymore, feeling like he was full of problems. It was a terrible feeling!
"So Lin Junyi is interested in Gu Qing?" Zheng Yuanda said coldly, a mocking smile forming on his lips after listening to Wang Xiaoyan's story. "I think he's overestimating his own abilities. He's a toad dreaming of eating swan meat!"
"That's what I think! You don't even take a piss to look at yourself and still want to pursue Gu Qing? Dream on!" Li Xiaoguang quickly followed suit and laughed.
Zheng Yuanda nodded, his eyes flashing with a sharp cold light, and sneered: "But I really want to see how Lin Junyi and Zhao Kaishun will call themselves pigs in front of everyone after losing the bet, hehe..."
Li Xiaoguang said with a sly smile, "I'll sit in the row right in front of him. Brother Zheng, don't worry, Gu Qing will be yours sooner or later, and Lin Junyi's position will definitely not last long. He made you look bad in front of the class this time, I will definitely find a way to punish him!"
Zheng Yuanda's face darkened. He stared at Li Xiaoguang sternly and said, "Don't do anything stupid, kid. If Gu Qing finds out it was me who ordered this, all our efforts will be wasted. Besides, I have my own way to separate him and Gu Qing."
"Don't worry, Brother Zheng, I will know my limits!" Li Xiaoguang chuckled.
The class bell rang.
The next class was Chinese history. The teacher's name was Li Kaizhi. Although he was only about fifty years old, his hair was completely gray and his back was slightly hunched. He always liked to wear a black Zhongshan suit and a pair of old-fashioned reading glasses, giving people the impression of an old pedant.
Lin Junyi clearly felt that since Li Xiaoguang, who was sitting in front of him, came back, this kid had his period, just like a woman's monthly period.
Li Xiaoguang, who was sitting in the row in front of him, became very restless, constantly rocking left and right in his chair and making constant noise, making it impossible for Lin Junyi to concentrate on the blackboard.
Seeing Li Xiaoguang making endless noises in the seat in front of Lin Junyi, Gu Qing was puzzled. "Why is this guy so active today? These little actions are obviously directed at Lin Junyi. Doesn't he want him to sit here?"
Lin Junyi was not surprised. He had been prepared since Wang Xiaoyan and Li Xiaoguang followed Zheng Yuanda out. But he did not expect that Li Xiaoguang's behavior was so stupid. Perhaps only a kid of his age could use such childish means.
"It's ridiculous that you can drive me away just by doing some little tricks there!" Lin Junyi sneered in his heart. He was almost certain that Li Xiaoguang was Zheng Yuanda's man, or simply a dog he let out.
However, Lin Junyi thought again, if this is true, then the "IQ" of his master Zheng Yuanda is not that good!
Lin Junyi pretended to be calm, quietly stretched his foot onto Li Xiaoguang's stool, and kicked him quickly and hard as he swayed towards the corridor.
“Ouch…”
Li Xiaoguang, driven by inertia, was unable to stop the chair from falling, and immediately fell flat on his face. He couldn't even recover. Who told him to just sway in the chair for no reason? Especially since he was in class, he didn't dare to get angry.
After this fall, Li Xiaoguang finally behaved himself.
Lin Junyi gradually lost interest as he listened to Li Kaizhi's long-winded and boring Cantonese lectures. His lectures were rigid, almost entirely rote memorization, so dull that it felt like chewing straw. Furthermore, Lin Junyi had studied liberal arts in his previous life and was extremely familiar with Chinese history, so Li Kaizhi's lectures naturally became even more uninteresting.
Lin Junyi secretly glanced at the beautiful and almost enchanting profile of his deskmate Gu Qing, and saw that she was listening attentively. He couldn't help but sigh. Out of boredom, he simply lay on the table and started to think.
Lin Junyi wasn't entirely confident about his bet with Li Zishan and Zhao Kaishun, especially regarding physics, which had always been a weak subject for him even in his previous life. However, as for the other subjects, as long as he systematically studied the textbooks, he was confident he could score high on the midterm exam.
In addition, Lin Junyi has another worry, which is his future plans.
Now, the Lin family's company has gone bankrupt, the family has been destroyed, and there's no news of their mother. Only their sister, Lin Wanqing, and Lin Junyi are left to depend on each other. Lin Junyi, who traveled from the future and directly occupied someone else's body, owes the Lin family a huge favor. Moreover, since waking up, his sister has taken meticulous care of him, allowing Lin Junyi to feel the warmth of family again in this strange world.
Lin Junyi's top priority now was making money so his sister wouldn't have to toil to support them both. He hadn't wanted to go to school in the first place, but he didn't want Lin Wanqing to be disappointed, so he kept thinking about how to achieve something and prove his abilities to her.
In his previous life, he had read many time-travel novels in which the protagonists took advantage of the financial crisis to speculate in stocks or invest in promising companies like Google, eventually becoming world-renowned billionaires. Bill Gates would become their underling, and beautiful women from all over the world would throw themselves at them. This kind of life was truly fascinating!
However, this path to wealth has a prerequisite, which is sufficient capital! Without capital, even if Lin Junyi understands the future development of the world, everything is still empty talk.
Besides, he didn't dare to tell others openly, "I came from the future. As long as you can lend me 100 million, I promise to return you 1 billion in five years!" If he did this, even if others didn't think he had escaped from a mental hospital, they would still think he was mentally retarded.
"Without capital, I can only watch my money slip away. My Bill Gates, my Google, my Soros...ah, then I will have no chance with them!"
My sister's current salary is barely enough for the two of us to live on, so how can she support me? Besides, I'm too young to find a job... Oh, how can I get the money? Borrow from a loan shark? It seems I have nothing to use as collateral. Robbery? That's even more ridiculous.
well!
Lin Junyi racked his brains and pondered for a long time, but could not figure it out. He felt upset and restless, and could not help but slap his forehead hard.
Hey, got it!
Lin Junyi suddenly had an idea, recalling that he had read countless online novels, and his brain also stored hundreds of excellent movie scripts. These things were all selling points. As long as he plagiarized some of them, he could earn a lot of money!
After careful consideration, Lin Junyi finally decided to plagiarize JK Rowling's famous novel "Harry Potter".
I remember that in my previous life, the Harry Potter series garnered worldwide attention and rave reviews upon its publication, winning numerous honors, including the National Book Award for Children's Fiction and the Smarty Gold Medal. The novels were subsequently translated into nearly seventy languages. By 2007, the Harry Potter series had sold at least 400 million copies worldwide, ranking it as the highest-selling non-religious, commercially available book of all time, and spawned a £7 billion spin-off industry. Its creator, J.K. Rowling, also went from a single mother living on welfare to, in just a few years, one of the world's richest women, with a personal fortune estimated at £545 million.
However, the Harry Potter series' primary market remains in Europe and the United States, so the novels must be written in English. This, however, wasn't a problem for Lin Junyi. After all, he had excellent English grades in his previous life, having passed both the CET-4 and CET-6. He also had access to Chen Xuewei for guidance. Lin Junyi also planned to wait until the novel reached approximately 100,000 words before contacting a publisher. After all, by then, the novel would have reached a climax, allowing people to initially experience the powerful allure of magical fantasy and anticipate the subsequent content. Legend has it that when JK Rowling first approached publishers, she faced numerous rejections due to her lack of enthusiasm for her content, and Lin Junyi didn't want to repeat her mistakes.
