In the south of the Yangtze River during the Republic of China, there was a "Liu Shui Book of Zong Gong Gong" in the ancestral hall of Zhoujiaji. Human life can be weighed, sorrows and joys can be discounted, and everything is converted into cold "value points". Mr. Zhou Qi, the accountant, has been setting up abacus and keeping score for twenty years. He firmly believes that this precise calculation is the axiom of the world.
Long-time worker Zhao Yongfu saved points all his life just for a named cemetery after his death. When he promised his daughter Awan to the old squire in exchange for the crucial points, Awan answered by throwing herself into a well. The system immediately showed its fangs: resistance was classified as "defamation", and the Zhao family's score fell overnight. Zhao Yongfu coughed up blood and died. The blood letter was "undervalued by fifteen cents."
Zhou Qi's rational world collapsed. He secretly recorded the remnants of human nature on the edge of the account book, but was discovered and included by the system, and was promoted to the chief writer of the newly established "Notes on Reasons" - his pain became the nourishment for system upgrades. Awan completed her final resistance with silent death in the dark back alley.
Intent: The strongest cage is often the one we enter voluntarily and build with our own hands. The real resistance begins with recognizing the existence of the ubiquitous "account book" and daring to cherish those things that "cannot be counted as valuable".