The Cash-Farming Life

The Cash-Farming Life is an urban system-genre web novel by Shen Zihua, serialized on Baidu Novels and completed in April 2019, totaling about 2.54 million characters. The protagonist, Shen Lang, is reborn back into his freshman year of college and unexpectedly discovers that the idle cash-farming game he had downloaded before his rebirth has traveled back in time with him. At LV1, the game already generates ten yuan per minute while idling, and holidays trigger critical multipliers on cash output; the mall system supports "pay-to-win" exchanges for various wondrous items, such as beauty capsules that boost looks, stamina capsules that improve physique, and skill books that let him gain rapid advantages in exams or skills. Armed with this near-cheat "plug-in," Shen Lang starts as an ordinary, even somewhat straitened college student: he first solves his financial hardship and appearance-related insecurity, then stands out in campus scenarios such as student council elections and basketball games; afterward, leveraging his capital advantage, he enters investment and entrepreneurship, gradually expanding his business empire, taking his company public and even turning it into an industry unicorn, completing a double comeback in wealth and life. The novel drives its plot through system earnings and item upgrades, with brisk pacing and densely packed payoffs, blending rebirth, system, and wealthy-god tropes—a fairly typical representative of the urban power-fantasy genre, having once achieved the distinction of topping ten thousand premium subscriptions.