Secondhand Wish Machine

Name: Secondhand Wish Machine
Author: Fireflies in Winter

二手许愿机

by Fireflies in Winter (冬天的萤火虫)

Status: Completed
Length: 292k Words
Genre: Urban
Subgenre: Urban High-Concept
Updated: 10mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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Synopsis

Chen Mo, a food delivery driver, finds a secondhand wishing machine marked “Clearance Sale” on a stormy night. Insert one yuan, and your wish is guaranteed to come true, but the way it comes true is always so absurd that you’ll regret making it. Want to get rich? A gold brick falls from the sky and smashes through your roof, along with a demolition crew: “Sir, your property is worth a billion.” Side effect: grass grows on your head for three days. Want to embarrass your gold-digging ex-girlfriend? All the luxury goods she’s wearing turn into cheap wholesale knockoffs while she’s livestreaming, and the chat fills with, “Same as yours, sis, only $0.99.” Side effect: your words come with snarky comments floating above them. The wishing machine is a discarded prototype from the ancient “God of Wishes,” and Chen Mo is its 999th test subject. When a mysterious organization comes to confiscate it and old enemies close in, he discovers that the busted machine has bound him to a hidden, universe-level mission: become the new god, or watch the world be reformatted by “perfect wishes.”

So he uses wishes with his left hand to help a terminally ill child be reborn, while with his right he makes a wealthy man’s ancestor appear in a dream to curse him out. He livestreams sales of “anxiety-relief USB drives” (side effect: your boss starts dancing the seaweed dance) while battling the God of Order, who seeks to erase every “imperfect wish.” At last, when the final coin drops, the wishing machine spits out its ultimate answer: “Congratulations, you are now the new god. The next test subject is your driver, Wang Fugui.” And in every corner of the city, more red metal boxes are quietly appearing…

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