Lu Yu is in the late stages of DMD, with a life as fragile as a candle in the wind.
His only comfort each night is secretly photographing Xia Ling, the girl at the convenience store.
Like a weed struggling through a crack in the stone, she is the only light in his sunless life.
He photographed her for 365 days straight, turning it into a silent farewell ritual.
Then he learned that she, too, was dying of heart failure, with only 72 hours left.
He roared as he signed the "Raven Protocol": "Take my heart and give her my life!"
But just as his heart stopped and he was wheeled into the operating room,
his consciousness was pulled into another dimension called the "00:60 Rift Convenience Store."
Here, heartbeats are currency, memories can be collateral, and emotions have a price.
What shocked him even more was that Xia Ling was there too.
She tore up the donation agreement, her gaze as sharp as a blade, and declared:
"Who wants your heart? I want you alive."
She refused his sacrifice and rejected his tragic farewell gift.
She said, "If we're going to rot, we'll rot together."
From then on, the two became "symbiotic fugitives" hunted by the laws of the universe,
risking their heartbeats and paying with their memories
as they fled along the rift in time and the edge of reality.
They must repeatedly make "heartbeat repayments"
to buy back his name and protect their shared memories,
and break this cruel yet beautiful symbiotic contract...
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