Mo Lichen stared at the strange pop-up on his phone. The subway car’s fluorescent lights reflected off the screen in a hazy glow.
[Do you want to understand the meaning of life? Do you want to truly... live?]
There were only two buttons below: [Confirm] and [Cancel].
“What kind of outdated gimmick is this...” Mo Lichen scoffed and instinctively swiped left with his thumb to close the ad.
On his twenty-third birthday, he still had to work overtime until nine that evening. He was so exhausted his eyes were drooping. After graduating from an ordinary second-tier college, he’d joined an ordinary internet company, where he worked an ordinary programming job for an ordinary salary. His parents ran a small supermarket of less than fifty square meters back in their hometown, and his younger sister, Mo Xiaoxiao, had just started her freshman year of college. He still had to send two thousand yuan home every month.
That was reality.
A mechanical female voice sounded over the subway speakers: “Next stop, Century Avenue. Passengers getting off, please prepare...”
The car lurched violently.
Mo Lichen was caught off guard and pitched forward. In the confusion, his fingers instinctively reached for something to grab, but landed on the cold phone screen.
He hadn’t swiped left.
He’d pressed right in the middle of the [Confirm] button.
“Holy shit, ”
A sensation like an electric current ran from his fingertips. It wasn’t static electricity. It felt more like something burrowing through his fingers into his veins, then racing through his bloodstream straight to his brain.
[Lifeform confirmation detected...]
[Matching soul fluctuations...]
[Match: 100%... Binding successful]
[Welcome to the Daily Tycoon Lottery System, version 1.0. Host: Mo Lichen]
