On the seventh day after being laid off, Lu Ming was dumped at his engagement banquet. More than three hundred people watched, and no one expected that this would become the most valuable day of his life.
Because beneath those three hundred pairs of eyes, he bound himself to a scrapped System.
It was not here to help him. It was here to harvest him. Kneeling, paying compensation, public humiliation, going mad in front of everyone, every task the System assigned pushed him toward a dead end. The harsher the task, the greater the reward. Once the humiliation value filled up, the Host would be formatted.
So Lu Ming learned another path: obey everything literally, while acknowledging none of it in substance.
Kneel, but only on half a knee. Spend money, but buy only things nobody wants. Apologize, by standing outside the other company's headquarters once a day.
As a result, the client's stock hit its daily limit down, the unfinished building site was incorporated into the subway plans, and his enemy was denounced across the internet as a bully. The entire internet was guessing who stood behind him. Behind him stood only a defective System and a mind that refused to surrender.
Why had it chosen him alone? Where was its previous Host?
“Host, you are cheating.”
“No, I'm not,” Lu Ming said. “I just understand the rules you wrote better than you do.”
Reader comments 1
The overall structure of the book is well written and well organized. I feel that the book could use more detailed descriptions to make the characters' psychology, movements and expressions more comprehensive.
The overall structure of the book is well written and well organized. I feel that the book could use more detailed descriptions to make the characters' psychology, movements and expressions more comprehensive.