Rewinding Time in a Cyberpunk World

In the Eternal City, time is currency.

Breathing, eating, walking: all of it costs lifespan.

Su Yue is a cleaner on the lower city's recycling line.

He died once, then woke up ten minutes earlier, with an hourglass appearing in his field of vision.

The System can deduct time from his account,

but it can't touch the golden sand in the hourglass.

So he begins to “reload and balance the books,” making the system's accounts stop adding up:

He turns his own life into bad debt for the entire city.

And the city still hasn't realized that he isn't fighting God. He has simply taken God's place.