Chapter 5 (2/2)

Lu Li’s expression slowly calmed back down again, but his lips curled into a faint smile.

He pulled his phone out and sat down on the couch in the living room.

The first thing he did was to give his team leader in the office a call.

“Mr. Li, I’ve got some urgent matters to handle, so I need to take a few days off,” said Lu Li into the phone.

“Yeah, three days is enough!” said Lu Li with a smile after his team leader responded.

He was on very good terms with the team leader, and he wasn’t the type who took leave on a whim either, so his leave application was approved almost immediately.

One might wonder why he didn’t just quit his job.

Lu Li felt that there was no hurry to do so.

When he didn’t have a superpower, his mind was constantly filled with thoughts of leaving that horrible place, and yet he had no choice but to grit his teeth and hang in there.

But now that he had a superpower and had control over his own fate, he was no longer in a hurry to get out of his current situation. His attitude towards life had changed completely.

Lu Li propped his feet up on the coffee table and lay down on the couch, quietly enjoying this rare morning of idleness.

Before today, Lu Li would have dashed out of the house by this time, bought a hot bun from the shop just outside the apartment they were renting and would’ve chomped it down in three mouthfuls.

After that, he would start running so that he could reach the subway on time.

The morning peak hour traffic on the trains in Shanghai was a nightmare.

You had to be fast, accurate and vicious, otherwise you’d never get into the train you needed to get to work on time. And even if you did manage to squeeze yourself into the train, you would be squashed against the door and would be completely unable to move.

This was a scenario that workers with no assets to their name had to go through every single day. That was how Lu Li had lived ever since he started work.

“This feels great!”

After some time, Lu Li stretched lazily and exhaled deeply.

He stood up, returned to his room, then took a few copies of the Time Purchasing Contract and the Time Selling Contract out from his drawer and placed them into one file folder.

After that, he strolled out of the house leisurely with just this one folder in hand.

After leaving the house, Lu Li’s first stop was the nearest branch of the bank he had an account with.

The branch had just opened its doors for the day, so he didn’t need to spend too much time lining up.

“I would like to withdraw $300,000, please,” said Lu Li calmly as he sat down at the teller’s desk and handed his bank card to the assistant.

That was almost all of his savings over the past four years.

The assistant scanned his card and he entered his PIN.

A few minutes later, the assistant brought a large stack of bills to the counter, ran them through the counting machine twice, and then passed everything to Lu Li.

Lu Li put the money into a black bag and walked out of the bank.

His aim today was to purchase one year of someone else’s life.

After all, he couldn’t keep spending his own time, right?