[System notification: Host’s vital signs are critical. Binding to the “Observer of Humanity” System.]
[Activation requirements: Deliver orders for 12 hours every day. For every 1% increase in your negative review rate, 10 days will be deducted from your lifespan. Stay offline for 24 hours and you die instantly.]
Lin Yue looked at himself lying on the curb and asked the first question that came to mind after waking up: “Doctor, I’m late with a delivery. Will the customer leave me a bad review?”
Doctor: “You were thrown thirty meters by a car!”
Lin Yue: “Then I’m done for. It’s definitely late.”
The first three Hosts had lasted 47 days before dying of exhaustion, 83 days before a traffic accident, and 112 days before a mental breakdown.
He was the fourth. He had only wanted to work eight hours a day and coast, but now he was forced to deliver for twelve hours a day just to stay alive.
Then, on the seventeenth floor, he met a woman about to swallow sleeping pills. Beside an office building’s delivery shelves, he encountered an intern digging through the trash. At a bubble tea shop, he met a proprietress who scolded him for “having a death wish” while secretly appealing his bad reviews for him.
The System said, “While you’re out there delivering, they’re all still living.”
Lin Yue said, “Then I’ll keep delivering a little longer.”
[Reading guide]
The male lead never stops talking, and the System is even more sharp-tongued. Their daily bickering is part of the routine.
The female lead is all bark and no bite. She uses bad reviews to write sick notes and a single tapioca pearl to hint that she’s falling for him.
The early chapters are packed with laughs. Later on, heartbreak and sweetness go hand in hand, so keep tissues nearby.
This is a story about “someone who was just coasting through life learning to look back.”
