Everyone in the World Gives Me One Yuan a Day

Li Xiang delivers food for a living.

His electric bike gets stolen, his supervisor threatens to dock his pay, his landlord is raising the rent, and his bank balance is 3.47 yuan.

Then he receives a text message:

“Global Mutual Aid System activated. Today’s deposit: 8,000,000,000.00 yuan.”

There are eight billion people in the world, and each one gives him one yuan a day.

He panics.

What scares him even more is that the System starts forcing him to spend the money. Buy mineral resources? They’re tied to an arms deal. Make investments? The project involves a sensitive region. Donate to charity? The money takes a detour and ends up somewhere it shouldn’t.

The System says: Don’t spend it, and you’ll be erased.

Li Xiang looks at the eight billion yuan in his phone, then at the 3 yuan and 47 fen in his pocket, and makes a decision.

He takes a bus to the provincial government office.

“Comrade, I have something I’d like to hand over to the state.”

Later, the whole world is searching for the “man supported by eight billion people.”

Meanwhile, Li Xiang is squatting by the roadside in Qingshui Village, eating noodles and complaining to the village chief: “Chief, can I take tomorrow off? It’s time to harvest the wheat.”

The System wants to harm me? I choose to hand it over to the state.

The state says: “You handle the spending. I’ll handle the investigation.”