From the Start, I Bind a Life Editor and Rewrite Everything

[No romance, System, everyday life, underdog comeback] Twenty-four-year-old Lin Xia is drowning in debt. His mother is seriously ill, his father has a lame leg, his younger sister needs money, and his girlfriend has run off with a rich heir. On a rainy night, his landlord kicks him out of his rental. As he hides in an abandoned phone booth, waiting to die, he binds to the [Life Editor]. Three chances each day, at the cost of his lifespan. His first edit from the start: make his “body temperature return to normal.” His second edit: turn the inside of the shabby phone booth into a comfortable studio apartment. His third edit: change his mother’s terminal diagnosis on her test report to “misdiagnosed at an early stage.” From then on, he uses the editor to turn everything around: Edit a food delivery e-bike → triple its range, turning a monthly income of 4,000 into 20,000. Edit a fake vase from a street stall → a genuine Ming-dynasty imperial kiln piece, auctioned for 1.8 million. Edit the ownership papers for an abandoned public toilet → 800,000 in demolition compensation. Edit rumors about a haunted house → a legend that it’s a feng shui treasure, then sell it for a net profit of 3 million. But the editor’s world has more than one player. Chen Mo warns him: “Stay away from the lottery and the stock market. The System will bite back.” Li Xuanzhi cautions him: “We’re living inside a story, and the author is wrapping it up.” Just as his assets pass ten million and he reaches the peak of his life, a sudden pop-up appears in the editor: [Warning: Total number of edits has exceeded the limit] [Warning: Abnormal fluctuations in the worldline] [Final notice: The character ‘Lin Xia’ has been marked by the author as a ‘bug to be deleted’] [Prove your value to the ‘readers’ within three days, or be erased permanently] It turns out he’s merely a supporting character who was supposed to die in the novel’s very first chapter. [Edit your life] or [be edited by life]? He has only three days…