Checking In Across the Country: My Ride Is a 911

[A practice run that flopped. Don’t read!!!]

Gu Cheng’an is unemployed the moment he graduates. Just after a company tells him he’ll have to complete three weeks of unpaid trial work, he binds to the National City Culture Check-In System.

The newbie reward is absurd: a Porsche 911.

The problem is, the System doesn’t give out cash.

Gas costs money. Parking fees hurt. Lodging costs are downright brutal.

Gu Cheng’an looks at the twenty-seven yuan and fifty cents in his pocket, then at the ridiculously gorgeous 911 by the roadside, and finally understands.

This System isn’t here to help the poor.

It’s here to teach him how to live broke while driving a luxury car.

Starting at Chengdu’s Kuanzhai Alley, he stays at guesthouses, drinks tea in covered bowls, eats sugar-glazed rice cakes, visits the Wuhou Shrine, and takes a night stroll along Jiuyan Bridge. He has to spend five real days in each city and complete its cultural tourism check-ins before he can claim a physical reward.

But he can’t just sell the rewards whenever he wants.

Want to turn them into cash?

Sure.

First check in at five cities, then unlock a one-time asset disposal privilege.

And so, an unemployed, broke graduate sets off on a nationwide check-in tour in a 911.

Everyone thinks he’s a rich kid trying out the ordinary life.

Online, people call him “Chengdu’s stingiest Porsche owner.”

Watching him carefully calculate the parking fee, Lin Qinghe, the owner of his guesthouse, can’t help laughing. “With this whole persona of yours, the comments section will be arguing until tomorrow morning.”

Gu Cheng’an just wants to say:

“Stop arguing. First tell me how much it costs to park this car overnight.”

Along the way, he’ll encounter the everyday life, warmth, history, and scenery of different cities. Little by little, he’ll go from someone life has left with no choices to someone who can choose his own direction.