Lin Yuan, a food delivery driver, is plunged into a desperate predicament by a strange order on a rainy night. By chance, he inherits a bronze pocket watch that can trade time. When he sees the exact price placed on the years he has left to live, he realizes that every minute he spends struggling at the bottom of society is worth so little.
Should he burn through his remaining years just to catch his breath for a moment, or seize this one lifeline and climb the sheer cliff of fate?
He traded 270 hours of his life for 2,700 yuan in rent when his landlord tried to throw him out. For the first time, he felt the weakness and terror of having his life drained away.
But this was only the beginning. When a System mission led him to an unremarkable copper coin on Antique Street, and Su Wanqing, the heiress of a financial empire, first gave him a searching look, Lin Yuan knew that a brutal game with time as its wager had begun.
He would trade time for capital, fight his way through the business world with that capital, and, through one thrilling deal after another, raise his “hourly rate” from ten yuan to a million, ten million, and heights no one else could reach!
