On a stormy night, Lin Shen, a food delivery driver, unexpectedly awakens the "Fate Correction System" after working sixteen hours straight. When he barges into the top-floor ballroom of the Pearl International Hotel with a strange gilt invitation, his power to freeze time suddenly activates. Champagne hangs in midair, the social elite stand motionless, and he alone can move through the frozen whirlpool of capital.
To stop the spoiled heir Gu Chengze from publicly tearing the qipao off movie queen Su Wanqing, Lin Shen uses a thorny dinner knife hidden in a compartment of his delivery box to pierce the Nanyang jade on Gu Chengze's chest. As black mist surges, he catches a glimpse of the secrets behind a multinational conglomerate's use of arcane arts to manipulate business wars. Tax scandals, smart surveillance, memory tampering... This farcical scene of sexual humiliation is actually the deadly fuse of a ten-billion-yuan acquisition.
After Lin Shen escapes the hotel with Su Wanqing, an anonymous threat arrives on his phone: "You've touched a piece of the pie you shouldn't have." A camera hidden in the shadows captures him rescuing her, while Gu Chengze, who should be unconscious, smiles coldly from a blind spot in the security footage. Just then, a new blood-red countdown appears on the inside of Lin Shen's delivery uniform. Amid the downpour, the System whispers again: [Host has been drawn into an A-grade Fate side quest. Choose: become a pawn, or wield the knife and break the deadlock.]
The battle between an insignificant nobody and a capitalist behemoth has begun. Who planted the thorny dinner knife, capable of slicing through talismans, in his delivery box as a "key"? And the Morse code Su Wanqing traced into his palm during those three frozen minutes points toward an even deeper blood-soaked mystery...
