Chapter 2: Rising to Prominence

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  Lin City, a summer resort, was also sweltering in July. Zhang Yali sat in her office, despite the air conditioning, still feeling stiflingly hot. Looking at the crowd gathered outside her door, she felt an inexplicable sense of irritation and impatiently called out: "Next! Number 106!"

  "Teacher Zhang, this is my ID card and admission ticket!"

  Generally, people who come to pick up admission notices call Zhang Yali "teacher", and if they mention her surname, it's obvious that they know her. When this person called out her surname, Zhang Yali looked up, and a face full of sunny smiles appeared before her eyes. Zhang Yali's little heart beat faster, and a faint blush rose to her cheeks.

  Zhang Yali silently scolded herself for being so weak, why did her heart beat faster whenever she saw this smiling guy? She wasn't a 17 or 18-year-old girl anymore, nor was she a lovesick woman who couldn't move when she saw a handsome man. As a woman in her 30s with kids that big, how could she still have that thrilling first-love feeling when she saw him? This feeling made her feel both ashamed and a little thrilled.

  This man saw Zhang Yali staring blankly at himself, lost in thought. A pretty face with a red glow wrapped around it, for a moment, couldn't figure out what was going on, scratched his hair lightly and said softly: "Sister Zhang? Sister Zhang?"

  "Ah, oh, look at me, just looking at you reminds me of my brother, spaced out, spaced out! Little Chen come get your admission certificate!" Zhang Yali felt her face burning with fire, she was already so old, yet she lost her composure in front of this guy again, how embarrassing, and to make matters worse, she had to use her own brother as a cover!

  "Zhang Jie, do I really look that much like your little brother?" Chen Zhiyuan rubbed his hair with a cute expression, but in his heart, he had a bunch of evil thoughts. Has Ge already become so handsome that it's shocking? This familiar woman seems to have fallen for him!

  "Ah, okay, wait a minute, I'll go find the admission letter for you!" Zhang Yali secretly laughed at how silly this guy was. A woman is blushing in front of him, spacing out from time to time, and he still can't figure out what's going on? However, this guy used to be so fat that no girl liked him, let alone loved him. It's normal for him not to understand romance, but this naive and silly appearance actually has a charm that attracts women. Who knows how many girls will fall for his devastatingly handsome face in the future!

  "Here, this is your admission letter. You're really something, kid! Professor Chen from Capital Medical University's graduate program accepted you? In all my years at the examination center, you're the first one! Zhang Yali said, looking at Chen Zhiyuan with a dazed expression. Professor Chen Weibin of Capital Medical University is arguably the best oncologist in the country, and his medical skills are among the top three globally. Getting into his graduate program is also the most difficult in the nation. And yet, Chen Zhiyuan managed to get in... His future prospects are limitless! After graduation, won't he be able to choose from any of the top hospitals in the capital?"

  Chen Zhiyuan stroked his hair and smiled: "Thank you, Sister Zhang, sorry to trouble you!"

  "What's with the fuss and politeness!" Zhang Yali said, then lowered her voice to: "Did you bring all the medicine? I brought all my sisters today!"

  Chen Zhiyuan patted his bag and laughed: "I've got it, I don't dare delay Zhang's sister's affairs!"

  Zhang Yali glanced at Chen Zhiyuan's somewhat worn-out bag, her eyes a little impatient, "Alright then, see you after work, I'll give you a call!"

  Chen Zhiyuan took the admission notice and nodded at Zhang Yalai before turning around and leaving. Zhang Yalai watched Chen Zhiyuan's back disappear out the door, rubbed her own belly, and thought to herself: "This kid's medicine really works! In just this short month, my spare tire is gone, and I still have a good appetite - my body hasn't shown any of those side effects that diet pills usually bring!" Thinking about this made her recall the scene when she first met Chen Zhiyuan.

  Zhang Yali was in charge of proctoring that day, and the first thing to do before the exam was to check the examinees' ID cards and admission tickets. Chen Zhiyuan's ID card was still the one he had made when he was fat, Zhang Yali saw this ID card and looked at Chen Zhiyuan, feeling a surge of anger in her heart, thinking that this person was too blatant in finding someone to take the exam for him. At that moment, she wanted to expel Chen Zhiyuan from the examination room. Chen Zhiyuan had anticipated such a situation and had gone to the police station to get a certificate in advance. He quickly took it out at this time. The certificate not only stated the facts but also had a recent photo of Chen Zhiyuan attached, which was stamped by the police station.

  Zhang Yali looked at the certificate and was still very suspicious, really couldn't associate the now handsome Chen Zhiyuan with the guy in the photo who was so fat that his facial features were indistinguishable. Not to mention Zhang Yali, even Chen Zhiyuan's parents didn't recognize him when they first saw him, Chen Zhiyuan had to use a lot of words to convince his parents, and it was only by going to the police station to get this certificate that Chen Zhiyuan had to bring his father along to prove it, and after much trouble, he finally managed to get it done.

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  At that time, Chen Zhiyuan had to bring out the same rhetoric he used with his parents to dispel Zhang Yali's doubts. He claimed to have met an old Chinese doctor and obtained a weight loss formula, which immediately piqued Zhang Yali's interest. As she was approaching middle age and had given birth to children, her figure had long since gone awry, with a large "life buoy" around her belly. Chen Zhiyuan took advantage of the opportunity and handed Zhang Yali a bottle of his own digestive enzyme pills to try, along with a contract that he had scribbled some vague terms on, which she signed.

  There was this incredible system that Zhang Yali couldn't help but lose weight, and Chen Zhiyuan didn't dare to absorb all of Zhang Yali's excess fat at once. Instead, he absorbed 20 kilograms in the first month. Zhang Yali saw very obvious results, with no side effects, and could eat whatever she wanted, as much as she wanted. In the second month, she ordered several more bottles from Chen Zhiyuan, who this time charged her a fee. He had configured the medicine at a cost of only a few yuan, but sold it to Zhang Yali for nearly 1,000 yuan per bottle. As Zhang Yali successfully lost weight, her friends and family around her also began ordering this "miracle slimming pill" from Chen Zhiyuan, and in just three months, he accumulated over 50,000 yuan.

  This time when he came to get his admission ticket, Zhang Yali helped him pull in quite a few clients, which led to the scene above.

  These past few months, Chen Da Guan Ren had a very tough time. After returning home, he was first mistaken for a thief by his parents and chased through over a dozen alleys. It wasn't until Chen Da Guan Ren recounted all the embarrassing things he did as a child, including some humiliating incidents his father got drunk and caused, that they finally believed him. He even fabricated a story about receiving an ancient formula from an old man, which was why he had become so thin. Only then did his parents acknowledge that this skinny boy, who looked like a stick of firewood, was indeed their son. However, Chen Da Guan Ren still got severely scolded by his father because the things he said made the old man very displeased.

  Then Chen Da Guan Ren started eating excessively, which made his mother feel heartbroken. This child must have suffered a lot outside, Chen Da Guan Ren had no choice, he was lacking fat, Chen Da Guan Ren's mouth was always eating except when sleeping, it made the old couple worried and thought their son was ill, so they took him to the hospital for a check-up and found out he was very healthy, only then did they feel at ease.

  With this, Chen Da Guan Ren did not dare to eat in front of the old couple, so he changed to eating underground. He had saved 20,000 yuan over the years, all of which was spent on buying food and putting it into his stomach. Not only did Chen Da Guan Ren want to eat, but also wanted to read books because he signed up for a graduate exam. This guy really wanted to exchange related skills with fat, unfortunately, time was too short, just over two months, even if he ate feed, he couldn't grow that much fat, plus if he wanted to exchange English skill books, he needed 60 kilograms, back and forth 120 kilograms, it's going to be the death of him!

  If it were to be changed back to the past, this guy would have been able to learn for a year and not only master medical comprehensive knowledge and politics but also achieve high school level English proficiency. It wasn't bad when the system was first activated because his brain domain had been greatly developed, making him much smarter. Not to mention that he could memorize everything at a glance, but it's not far from that either. That's how he got into graduate school!

  This time, through Zhang Yali's relationship, he got 80 kilograms of fat from a group of women and also got some money. The big official originally wanted to exchange it for primary medical skills, but after thinking about it, going to school would cost money, and when he arrived in the capital, would he ask his parents for money? Chen Da Guan Ren obviously didn't want to do that. After careful consideration, Da Guan Ren decided to exchange for a primary cooking skill. His younger sister had a small door curtain, and now there were still two months before school started, so why not open a small restaurant to earn some tuition and living expenses? Upon checking the system, he found that after primary cooking skills, there was also a primary food therapy. He was curious, and his hand slipped, so he exchanged for a primary food therapy.

  After getting this primary food therapy, Chen Da Guan finally thoroughly understood the system's reversal of heaven. The skill book name for primary food therapy is "Food Path", although it's just a primary one, but the content inside is really too heavenly. This food therapy is made by combining ingredients and medicinal materials to make dishes, each dish is targeted at one or several diseases in the human body, and also contains unique medicinal material processing methods. Chen Zhiyuan searched online and found that these medicinal material processing techniques are all unspoken secrets, many of which have been lost for a long time. With this primary Food Path, Chen Da Guan can completely open a food therapy restaurant, no need to go to the hospital or take medicine for common illnesses, just eating his dishes will be enough.

  At that time, Chen Zhiyuan thought that he could just open a therapeutic restaurant after graduating from school, but after careful consideration, he realized that his dishes were indeed effective for some diseases. However, the medicinal ingredients required in the early stages would cost a lot of money, and now all his family's assets are only tens of thousands of yuan, which is not even enough to buy the medicinal ingredients, let alone open a therapeutic restaurant! Money, money, Chen Da Guan finally realized that without money, every step is difficult!

  Helpless, Chen Da Guan Ren decided to open a small barbecue shop first, so the money in his hand was enough for some medicinal materials. He strolled through the medicinal material market and painfully spent 30,000 quick coins to buy some necessary medicinal materials. In fact, opening a small barbecue shop didn't require these medicinal materials at the beginning, but when Chen Da Guan Ren exchanged food skills books, he had enough wisdom points, but his physical strength and agility were not enough. He exchanged some medicinal pills to increase his physical strength to 12 and agility to 10, which barely met the exchange conditions. However, this was just the beginning. Once he mastered the skill, he found that many recipes for dishes and medicinal materials had requirements for his three attribute points. At this time, Chen Da Guan Ren's hard-earned fat was wasted again, and he could only exchange those point-increasing medicinal pills to make do. However, with this makeshift solution, the success rate of making some dishes and medicinal materials greatly decreased.

  He first made a few dishes, including roasted lamb and chicken, as well as some vegetables. With his attributes, he was able to make these dishes with 100% success rate. However, these dishes required some medicinal ingredients, which Chen Daguanyuan's attribute points were not enough to process.

  Now Chen Zhiyuan's average success rate is 10 successes and 2 failures, even with such a low-cost medicine, the value has doubled under this success rate, so Chen Daguoren bought 30,000 fast medicines in one breath.

  Calculating the remaining money in his hands, he felt extremely sad. Looking at those main characters who got some kind of heaven-defying system, they immediately became rich and had countless beauties throwing themselves at them. He had gotten this system for three months now, but not only did he not get any beauties, he didn't even have much money - just over 500,000 yuan. Now, after losing more than 300,000 yuan in an instant, the remaining amount wasn't even enough to cover his tuition and living expenses for graduate school in Beijing. It was really a scam, indeed most things were deceits.

  Now that all the ingredients have been purchased, they will be taken back tonight to discuss with cousin Li Jian. Chen Zhiyuan's home is not in Lin City, but in Yishan Town, half an hour away from Lin City. His younger sister lives in Lin City and happens to live on a street with a small storefront that has been rented out as a small restaurant. The small door curtain is currently unrented, and his cousin Li Jian is also idle at home with nothing to do. Considering all these factors, Chen Zhiyuan came up with the idea of getting his cousin to join him in running a barbecue business.

  After buying these medicinal materials, Chen Zhiyuan found that his wallet had become thinner again, and he felt very helpless. Others were struck by lightning and got some kind of invincible system, and the money would cry and shout as it drilled into their wallets. But when it came to himself, it was like being a swindler in the Jianghu, deceiving those wealthy middle-aged women. Just thinking about it made Chen Zhiyuan's headache worse.

  At this time, Zhang Yali's phone also came, and Chen Zhiyuan made an appointment with the location. Mr. Chen felt a headache, but he had no choice but to grit his teeth for the sake of money and fat. There is still one more update at 7 pm tonight! Please collect and recommend!