After losing her job, Yu Zhaoning took a ghostwriting job for a novel that paid 180 yuan.
The client said the Seoul she wrote about didn't feel real, and an AI prompt appeared: Enter Scene to Collect Data.
When she opened her eyes again, she was really sitting in a Seoul cafe.
Time here was thirty days behind China.
A company in the news yesterday as having closed down was still hiring. The young translator who had just helped her out would appear in the obituaries two days later.
She returned with the old news and stopped the document waiting to be signed.
"Don't sign yet, and don't go to that building."
The translator survived, the news changed, and the chaebol set their sights on her.
Some people paid for her judgment, some offered to buy out her source of information, and others wanted to use a partnership to enter her life.
Her 180-yuan writing fee hadn't even arrived, and she was already at the negotiating table with a chaebol.
But when she changed one person's fate, the future in her memories began to fail...