When Life Can Be Traded, I Stock up for a Thousand Years

In 2077, human civilization has entered the "quantification era" - everyone's life span, health value, mood swings and even luck direction are all transformed into observable and tradable data. When the "fate contract system" becomes the underlying rule of the world's operation, some people get to the top by selling their lifespan, and some become "ghosts" because of data clearing. Hidden in the torrent of codes are ancient secrets that can subvert civilization. Chen Xu, an ordinary data repair engineer, works every day to salvage fragments of personal data that have been maliciously tampered with. Until a strange repair mission, he accidentally activated the "metadata" sleeping in his body, and has since had the ability to rewrite the rules - he can see the "flaws" of others, reconstruct broken fates with logical chains, and even build his own "rules sandbox" in the flood of data. This is not a simple cheating counterattack, but a war against chaotic order using scientific thinking. Facing the "Tiansuan Group" that monopolizes the destiny contract system, the "ghost organization" that feeds on data, and the "contract keepers" hiding in the shadow of history, Chen Xu must use probability theory to crack down on the pursuit, use game theory to unite allies, and use engineering to build a line of defense. He discovered that the so-called "quantification era" was nothing more than an experiment that lasted for thousands of years, and human free will was the most unquantifiable variable. In this world where data is destiny, what Chen Xu wants to do is not to become a new rule maker, but to enable everyone to take back their own "undefined life."