Can Infinite Failures Only Deduct Love?

After working overtime until one in the morning, Shen Zhi was starving, so she ordered fried chicken for delivery. After eating it, she foamed at the mouth and died at her miserable workstation.

Death number one.

She opened her eyes, and there was the fried chicken again, still hot. Shen Zhi was shocked and confused, wondering if she was hallucinating, or had simply eaten too much.

She decided to try a chicken wing.

She foamed at the mouth again...

Death +1.

She opened her eyes again. This time Shen Zhi was sure she'd been reborn. The sight of the fried chicken made her feel sick, and she didn't dare touch it. She investigated, and just as she found the delivery driver poisoning the food on the security footage...someone suddenly pushed her down the stairs.

Died from the fall, death +2.

She opened her eyes once more...and discovered that everyone in the building had died and come back to life in all sorts of ways. They suspected a mysterious System had set them up. After talking it over, they decided to fight back and save themselves, but then the building caught fire.

They all burned to death together, death +3...

Shen Zhi finally cracked the puzzle. The notification announced the first clear of the instance: 666. After escaping, she furiously wrote an essay cursing the Infinite System three thousand times!

Infinite: "Failing an instance costs you humanity's most important assets: lifespan, money, or love. For example, if you fail three times, we can take ten years of your life each time, reducing your lifespan by thirty years. Or you can choose to lose money."

Shen Zhi: "How much money?"

Infinite: "Twenty percent of your total assets per failure."

Shen Zhi: "Then take the money. I'm not that attached to it."

Infinite didn't deduct anything. Her account had only 308 yuan, and with her mortgage and other loans, she was already three million yuan in debt to the world. Taking twenty percent of her assets would practically be charity.

After Infinite coldly rejected her scheme, Shen Zhi thought it over and was delighted instead. "Oh, if you take thirty years off my life, I'll just die painlessly at seventy? That sounds pretty good. I won't even have to grow old and lose my independence. Hahahaha."

Infinite: "??? I'm not Aladdin. I can't grant your delusional wishes. You can go watch Final Destination."

Shen Zhi: "Then take love. Take my romance. Romance, romance, romance!!"

She didn't have any anyway.

Or maybe she could find a vampire boss and an overbearing client to negotiate with?

Later, Shen Zhi learned that clearing an instance could earn time cards, redeemable for: an equivalent extension of one's lifespan, physical abilities such as strength and speed, organ treatment to fix whatever was wrong, money at a rate of 100,000 yuan for ten years, and special talents such as truth detection, mind reading, telescopic vision, super hearing, X-ray vision, and data viruses...

Shen Zhi hesitated, but then her boss told her that the client had changed the requirements again and wanted her to redo everything.

Huh? This sounded way more promising than work. Either way, she was risking her life to make money. Nothing shameful about that!

On to the next instance!

Theme: Life is worth fighting for