Twenty-six-year-old Zhou Wan works as a fresh food e-commerce data analyst in Beijing. He rents a one-bedroom apartment with a leaky ceiling and has a deposit of less than 40,000 yuan. Until one evening on the subway during rush hour, a ring of unknown origin slipped onto her left ring finger. There is a storage space hidden in the ring: it can be transformed into a necklace, earrings, and bracelets at will; it has a built-in real-time global temperature map; and there is also an area where the flow of time is completely static - the strawberries placed in it will always retain the morning dew at the moment they were picked, and the salmon will never oxidize.
She quit her job and started a "one-person fresh food business." Purchase goods from the Xinfadi wholesale market, stuff them into a static space, and then sell them with a freshness that crushes cold chain logistics. Dandong strawberries, Australian Wagyu beef, Hainan mangoes - in the face of space, the barriers of region and season are in vain. She started traveling to Harbin and planning Lhasa, turning the temperature differences across China into arbitrage space.
But the money came quickly, and so did the trouble. Lu Ming, a local snake, smelled something unusual and forced her to cooperate; the gap of 180,000 in advance forced her to accelerate expansion; more importantly, she found that the easier it was to use this space, the less she dared to stop.
