After three years of food delivery, Chen Du feared nothing more than running late and getting bad reviews. After running a red light on a rainy night, he found a new app on his phone: Yellow Springs Delivery.
"White-badge rider Chen Du. Late deliveries deduct lifespan; bad reviews damage your soul."
He thought it was a prank, until he saw an old woman who had waited three years for her daughter to visit her grave. As he kept making deliveries, he realized that the rules of the underworld were just like those of the living world: the platform exploited its riders, and algorithms controlled their fate. Even worse, he found his mother, who had disappeared when he was five, in the underworld. She hadn't disappeared. She had been "requisitioned."
"Is that all my life is worth?"
