Time Merchant: from Harvest to Consciousness to Sober Creation

Lin Che is a "cognitive worker" in 2026. Her daily job is to create more addictive information opium until she is optimized by AI. When he was heavily in debt, he broke into the "flow black market" in the gray area, where he traded everything that could not be quantified by algorithms: a focused sunrise, an uninterrupted sadness, and a moment of enlightenment. He glimpsed the essence of wealth: the real hard currency is the "attention span" that others voluntarily pay you. Thus, he transformed from an "addiction maker" to a "sobriety supplier." When the Godfather of Efficiency attempted to connect all human consciousness to the "happiness assembly line", Lin Che's "small business" became the biggest stumbling block. The ultimate business war about how humans will define their own value has exploded. What he is selling is no longer a product, but an option. And his enemy is the entire era that advocates "happiness is efficiency".