When Lin Fan was squatting by the trash can in the back street of the university, breathless worrying about the 300 yuan rent increase, he did not know that the silver pocket watch he picked up casually would completely tear his mediocre life into pieces.
The moment his fingertips touched the pocket watch, a cold electronic sound sounded in his head - [Life recovery system is successfully bound, remaining life span: 7362 days]. Other people's systems give people superpowers and make a fortune, but his system treats life as currency. Two hours will be deducted when exchanging a piece of bread. If you refuse a task, you will lose one day of life.
What's even weirder is that something is wrong with this world. Flying delivery guys are the norm. There are secret photos of him picking up pocket watches on his roommate's phone. Even the stray cats in the alley are looking at him like they're looking at "reserved food."
In order to survive, Lin Fan could only trade his life for resources: three days of life for the skill to see through lies, half a year for the ability to evade pursuit, and ten years for... A cruel truth about "why the system exists."
When he discovered that those suspended, mutated, and hidden secrets were all looking for "lifespan hosts" like him; when he realized that what he picked up was not a pocket watch, but the key to open Pandora's box——
Lin Fan looked at the decreasing lifespan numbers on the system panel and suddenly smiled.
"Hold it, wait until I figure it all out, you owe me your life, and you have to pay it back with interest."
This is a story about using life as a bargaining chip to survive step by step in a strange world. There are flying delivery guys, "friends" who hide secrets, and countless pairs of eyes staring at your life. And
