If You're Still Single at 40, You Turn into a Barrier Beast

[Urban Power Fantasy x System Comeback x Mysterious Golden Finger x A Game of Life and Death]

I, Chen Que, an ordinary office drone crushed into the mud by fate:

The shackles of being a small-town exam grinder, a body weighed down by depression and anxiety, the blessings of a 996 work schedule, and a father with terminal cancer...

Lying on his sickbed, my father used the last of his strength to deliver an ultimatum: "If you're not married by forty, I won't be able to rest in peace!"

After that, I went on blind dates like I was ticking off KPIs, only for every one to end in disaster and make me a laughingstock.

Then one day, in a hospital lab, a mysterious escaped organism, the [Barrier Beast], suddenly burrowed into my body!

My life was about to go into cheat mode!