"Exchange this for that? Are you crazy?" - This was Su Mi's last normal speech in his life. When the wet calico cat in the gutter jumped onto his shoulder with the coin in its mouth, the socially fearful programmer didn't know yet that he was about to become a pawn in a cosmic trading game.
How many steps does it take to go from a coin to a villa? The calico cat swung its tail and said: "Ninety-nine steps, not one step less." Every transaction of Su Mi was like playing Russian roulette: he won 30 million in the lottery ticket exchanged for coins, and was snatched away by the robbers on the back; the warehouse opened with the key left by the robbers was filled with talking electric toothbrushes; when he finally exchanged the alien technology toothbrush for the key to the mansion, the landlord asked to use "the most precious memory of his childhood" to pay the balance...
What Su Mi didn't know was that the calico cat's diary was floating in another dimension. It read: "In the 88th transaction, the goal was to exchange sincerity for the weakness of the greedy. Human beings will never be able to settle the accounts." When the 99th transaction came, Su Mi realized that the entire game was the cat's repayment of the birthday wish he had when he was seven years old and was washed away by the rain - "I want an adventure game that I will never get tired of playing."
Now, the villa key is hot in his hand, and the cat is squatting on the roof, showing its fangs: "Congratulations on passing the level! But according to Article 233 of the "Universe Transaction Law", you still need to pay... An ending?"
Intent: In a world where values fluctuate, truth is broken, and full of uncertainty, the meaning of individual existence does not lie in accumulating static wealth or finding the only answer, but in maintaining an open perception, having the courage to establish sincere connections, taking on due responsibilities, and dynamically defining oneself and pursuing meaning in the eternal flow of value and cognitive leaps. The so-called "villa" may be the true peace and strength that the heart has gained after experiencing all this.