I'm almost 45 and the system is just coming

Chapter 1 Pie in the sky

On February , the dragon looked up.

Since ancient times, folk legends have said that this day is the day when the Dragon King, who is in charge of clouds and rain, raises his head, which embodies many of the people's yearning for life.

Just after noon, Zhou Tian finished his meal and without his wife urging him, he got up and went downstairs, came to the barber shop downstairs and started getting a haircut.

Although he himself did not believe in any folk legends, after all, these were sayings passed down from ancient times, and he was unwilling to challenge their truth and authority.

"Brother! What kind of hairstyle are you going to get today?"

The barber is a middle-aged man in his thirties. He has run a barber shop in the community for more than three years. Since Zhou Tian often visits the shop, he is very familiar with him.

"Just keep it short!"

Zhou Tian sat down slowly and said with a smile.

As a middle-aged man in his forties, he no longer had any concerns about his hairstyle.

"Okay bro!"

As the barber spoke, he picked up the clipper in his hand and started cutting the hair with a buzzing sound.

Zhou Tian smiled but said nothing. Looking at himself in the mirror, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

"Another year has passed, and it feels like I've gotten another year older!"

Although he actually didn't want to face it, every time he saw his son's height which was taller than himself, he knew in his heart that he was slowly approaching old age.

People say that at thirty one is independent, at forty one is free from doubts, and at fifty one knows the destiny. And he had unknowingly reached the age of knowing the destiny.

“Time really spares no one!”

Listening to the sound of the electric shaver beside his ear, he felt a little sad for some reason, but he put the thought aside in the blink of an eye.

Become open-minded again.

"Brother! What do you think?"

Half an hour later, the barber put down the clippers in his hand and asked softly.

Zhou Tian smiled and said nothing more. He stood up and looked at himself in the mirror, then said, "Not bad. That's it. Let's leave it at that!"

After paying the money, Zhou Tian walked out of the barber shop. A breeze blew past him and he felt a coolness on his scalp. He couldn't help but touch his short hair, which was almost bald. Then he turned around and went home.

As soon as I walked into the house, I heard my wife muttering.

"Look at you, I asked you to do your homework, but you acted like your life was in danger. It's okay for you to be late for school on normal days, but on Saturdays and Sundays, you always hold your phone instead of doing your homework first. What do you want to do?"

"Do you want to be like your father in the future, unable to make money and staying at home?"

The intermittent mumbling made Zhou Tian frown slightly, but then his brows relaxed the next moment.

"Okay, let him play first! He can do his homework in the afternoon!"

Zhou Tian couldn't help but dissuade him: "Why don't you take a look at my hairstyle first?"

As he said that, he walked over to his wife and asked.

Unexpectedly, his wife rolled her eyes at him and said, "You've seen it for so many years, it's not like you haven't seen it before. Okay, I won't say anything more. The second son and I have already made an appointment to go buy groceries. You and the child stay at home. By the way, remember to let him do his homework!" After the wife said that, she put the clothes in the washing machine, put on her clothes and left home.

"understood!"

Zhou Tian was not surprised by all this. After all, since moving, his wife and sister-in-law lived not far away, and they would go shopping for groceries together when they had nothing to do. It had become a habit.

"Okay, son, play for a while and then go do your homework. Otherwise, be careful that your mom comes back and sees you still playing. I won't be able to report to you then!"

After sending his wife away, Zhou Tian looked at his son who was still playing with his mobile phone beside the sofa, and couldn't help but speak in a slightly raised voice.

"Got it, Dad!"

The son turned his head to look at Zhou Tian, ​​responded, and then lowered his head to play with his mobile phone again.

Shaking his head, Zhou Tian helplessly sat at the table in the living room, opened his laptop, and started his day's work. To be honest, what his wife said was not wrong.

He is indeed an unemployed middle-aged man. It is not that he is unwilling to work, but that this society is too unfriendly to middle-aged people like him.

Originally he was a small leader in the sewage treatment plant two years ago, but because he offended a villain, he had to resign. After one year, he submitted many resumes, but in the end he received no response.

In desperation, he even worked as a security guard for a year, but the salary was too low. It was not enough for him to support his family. Moreover, there was not much room for development in the security job, and he did not want to waste his life like this.

He resigned in October last year. In the following six months, he looked for many jobs again, but every unit was willing to recruit young people. For him, who was in his forties, he was over the age limit.

Whether he likes it or not, in the end he can only pin his hopes on the Internet, that is, online novels.

Speaking of online novels, he was once one of the earliest practitioners and has long been a veteran bookworm. I remember that time was when he had just graduated from school.

He also wrote a book. At that time, the environment for online novels was not as good as it is now, and piracy was rampant. However, out of his love for the book, he insisted on writing it until it was put on the shelves.

Unfortunately, because he had high expectations but poor skills, I remember that his subscription was neither good nor bad at the time. He could earn an average of 80 or 90 yuan a day, but it was still too low for him.

For this reason, he quit and never wrote a novel again until six years ago, when he picked up the keyboard again and wrote a book as a side job, and the subscriptions reached an average of 1,500.

It also made up for a lot of the family's deficit. It was precisely because of this experience that he had no choice but to start planning his life again. After all, he couldn't not make money!
To be honest, he feels that he is not qualified to be a husband and a father. He has lived his life in such a muddle until today, even though he already has a house and a car.

But when he thought about his son going to college and getting married, he couldn't help but feel a little anxious.

As soon as he turned on the computer, he thought carefully about what he wanted to write. Suddenly, he seemed to see a fantasy scene, and a blue light screen appeared in front of him.

A few large characters appeared on the light screen, with instructions densely written underneath the characters.

"What is this? A novel rebate system! System?"

Zhou Tian rubbed his eyes in disbelief. It was no wonder that he was like that. He was a veteran netizen and naturally understood what the system was all about. But even though he understood it, he still couldn't believe that one day he would really be able to see the system.

And the system appeared in front of him so abruptly.

"Am I dazzled? Or have I traveled through time?"

For a long time, he stared at the light screen in front of him, muttering to himself with excitement and doubt.

No matter what, he knew that from today on, his life seemed to be really out of the ordinary. Just as people often said on the Internet, if ordinary people want to change their fate, they can only rely on mutation or pie in the sky.

And the system is the result of pie in the sky.

(End of this chapter)