Every Trade Has Its Stars, and Every Trade Is a Crime

After two years of unemployment, Shen Mo wakes up to find he's in the body of himself in a parallel world. His savings are down to three digits, and his landlord is already demanding rent. His only chance is a livestreamed street-stall competition: the last-place contestant is eliminated, and the champion wins three million. The moment he signs up, a mysterious [Golden Partners Project System] binds itself to him. His teammates are an uncle who can only make fried rice and a hardware-store worker carrying a wrench, yet the System gives him a plan that supposedly can't lose. An automatic fried-rice machine takes the night market by storm. An immersive escape room unravels a thirty-year-old cold case. A community cafeteria moves the entire city to tears... But behind every plan lurks a bizarre “deviation,” each one hitting precisely at a forgotten person or buried truth. Only when Shen Mo opens a line of tiny text deep inside the System does he realize the truth: there is no heaven-sent golden finger, only a wish program left behind by the original owner with his life. Black PR, old cases, the night of the fall... The enemy is seated among the sponsors, and Shen Mo must climb higher still to bring the truth to light. From night-market vendor to industry leader, from a three-million prize to the temptation of a five-billion acquisition... He will fight this battle for the “himself” who didn't live to see today. And he will help craftspeople everywhere make an honest living from their skills.