"We thought we were exchanging lives, but in fact we were pawning our souls."
Twenty-nine-year-old architectural designer Lin Shen received a mysterious pop-up window on the night when his project was robbed, his girlfriend betrayed him, and he was publicly humiliated by a rich second generation:
[Use the price you can pay to exchange for the life fragments of the "stronger you" in the parallel world.
Health, pain, sleep, emotions, memory, luck, life fragments...
He pawned himself again and again in exchange for career, wealth, talent, and connections, and reality was rewritten accordingly. From a humble designer to an upstart in the industry, he stepped on all those who had despised him, but gradually discovered——
Emotions are numb, the body is on warning, memories are broken, and another haggard self is occasionally reflected in the mirror late at night.
Until he bought a strange yet familiar sketchbook in a second-hand bookstore, until he bumped into a man who looked exactly like him on the street but was impoverished.
"You stole my life," the man said.
It turns out that every exchange is plundering "one's" destiny in a parallel world. The end point of this transaction is the mastermind behind harvesting all parallel selves and attempting to live forever.
Lin Shen faced the final choice: continue to climb countless "selves" to the illusory peak, or return everything and find the real but complete me?
