Chapter 240 - Enlightenment (1/2)

“Ding! You’ve reached 100 characters dubbed, and spent 10,000 minutes cumulatively in the recording studio, completing the task [Studio Bug]. You’ve received the achievement title [Studio Bug] (Voice acting skills +5, voice appeal +3)”

Sleeping AFK, he was able to level up!

This kind of feeling made Meng Fan ecstatic.

After opening his eyes, he wanted to experience the increased attributes for himself and opened his equipment to test the results. He was able to fully transform the attributes the System had rewarded him to facilitate his own ability.

With the increase of his dubbing skills, the enhancements were all-encompassing, so if Meng Fan didn’t test it, there would be no other way to fully grasp it.

After testing several classic clips, he would listen to them himself and try to understand the changes and extract an order from them…

“F*ck, iron god, did you just wake up or did you not sleep?”

In the last few days, Meng Fan hadn’t received much work, and the ones he’d done were small roles that Lou Lan had found for him. Lou Lan, of course, had his own plans. See now, he’d pulled another all-nighter. It was barely 5:00 am when Lou Lan was prepared to go to bed as he walked by Meng Fan’s studio on his way out. Cautiously, he had peaked inside to see Meng Fan still recording.

“You’re too hardcore!”

Lou Lan gave him a big thumbs up and yawned as he headed off to sleep.

Meng Fan dubbed for a little while longer and left the studio. As he exited the cultural park, he jogged back to the neighborhood. Now that he’d gained all the experience he needed, he no longer had to suffer inside the studio.

He ran home and took a shower and melted into the bathtub for a bath. With a relaxed expression and loose muscles, he finally managed to fall back asleep.

“It’s already December!”

When Meng Fan woke up, he looked at the time. Checking his calendar, Meng Fan finally realized that they had only just entered December, which meant that the days were getting closer and closer to the day of the major accident before his reincarnation.

It’s already been two and a half months since he was reborn!

In the last two months, the trajectory for Meng Fan’s entire life and his education had changed greatly.

Before he was reincarnated, he was still a person who would occasionally give little spurts of effort to receive a lot of rewards. Regardless if it was in school or in life, he had been a salty fish. Every day he’d swim a little and consider it valiant.*

*In Chinese, there’s the saying “Xian Yu Fan Shen (salty fish turns over), usually used to describe underdogs or underachievers who turn the tide, or ‘turn around’ their misfortune.

If nothing unexpected happens and he was able to graduate from the academy smoothly, he could rely on his drawing skills and professional ability to find a decent job. He didn’t have to worry about a house, owning a car, or money in general. He could pursue his idols, watch the concerts of the people he liked, and even manage to eat a meal with them with his thick skin.

He could play all the video games he wanted, dub all the shows he wanted, donate hundreds and thousands of HXB to the streamers he enjoyed, and eat what he wanted…Maybe if he really ran into something unexpected, like a girl he liked a lot, or a foreign disease, he would grit his teeth and find a good coach to help him lose weight.

If he wasn’t reincarnated, Meng Fan’s life would definitely not be bad. You can even say he’d live very well. After all, he was a wealthy idle fish that could also swim for himself. Regardless, he is a small master, who has a better material condition and better life than the 99.999% of people who had struggled their entire lives for similar conditions.

Of course, life was unexpected. Nobody could predict what would happen next. Maybe someone would actually be triggered by such an event, and burn out in the spirit of hard work. Maybe he would succeed in losing weight, and become a famous manga artist. At least, the possibility of the latter is quite large. After all, his foundations were solid.

After being reborn, he had gained the System, a gold finger that could reward his hard work eye for an eye!

This kind of goldfinger was able to make an idle fish like Meng Fan work, and very hard at that.

Everyone on earth knew how to work hard, but too many people had given up because they received no rewards, or given up before they could benefit.

There were two kinds of people on this planet that were badass. One was the person who was rewarded by their hard work, and the other was the person who could quickly reap their reward from working hard.

But of course, the most badass of all were the people who have already received the rewards but continue to work hard.

Because of this, Meng Fan’s life saw some drastic changes. He was no longer an idle fish, paddling along. He slept later than a rooster and woke up before a rooster as well. He worked so hard, it was almost like he wasn’t from a rich family.

His skin had grown thicker, he’d become braver, and he’d lost a lot of weight and became muscular. He was in contact with people he never thought he’d be interacting with, and to further improve his dreams, he also met someone he genuinely liked…

If you asked Meng Fan if he liked his life before his rebirth, his answer would be yes.