When life enters the countdown, do you choose to accept death calmly, or live at all costs?
On the day Gu Yan was diagnosed with a terminal illness, he was bound to the "life renewal system". He was given a cruel rule of survival: if someone sheds tears because of him, his life will be extended for one day; if someone laughs because of him, his life will be extended for only one hour. In the face of the disparity between a day and an hour, the balance of human nature suddenly tilted.
He did not hesitate to turn into an online abuse anchor, selling his "sadness" in the virtual world, harvesting the tears of strangers to keep breathing. Until the school sweetheart Lu Chen, whom he had a crush on for ten years and couldn't get, broke into the live broadcast room with a million-dollar reward, and begged with red eyes: "Please smile at her... She only has three days left to live."
Gu Yan, on the other side of the screen, showed a smile that was more broken than crying, and responded softly:
"But your tears can help me live another year."
——This is a dangerous dance on the tightrope of humanity.
——This is a cruel transaction of exchanging the sincerity of others for your own tomorrow.
When the deepest secret love meets the most utilitarian pursuit of survival, when sincerity and calculation are entangled, how does Gu Yan find a balance between the desire to live and the guilt of becoming an emotional exploiter? And when his greatest "source of life" Lu Chen begins to discover the truth, what kind of desperate ending will this symbiotic relationship based on lies and pain lead to?
"I just want to live - even if the price is dragging you into this endless hell."
