One in a Million Stars

In the future "Star Nest" ecosystem, everyone is a provider of live content and a digital laborer defined by algorithms. Lin Yiming has been here for nine hundred and twenty-one days. Live broadcast eight hours a day to earn reward points in exchange for the qualification to continue to survive. He exchanged gentle knowledge sharing for a passable data ranking, until a girl named Song Nianzhen moved next door. She doesn't put on makeup, doesn't use beauty products, and doesn't care about statistics. She just sang the songs she wrote quietly in a four-square-meter glass cubicle. Her voice is like a stone at the bottom of a river, which has flowed through it a thousand times but remains in the same place. Lin Yiming was moved by her singing and understood her trapped fate. He took out all the inheritance left by his brother - 15 million points, and sent her to the Star Nest's largest star-making stage, the "Star Stage". He thought this was the only way to help her break out of the system. But the system never makes it easy to escape. The lights on the stage are not to illuminate dreams, but to mark prices. Song Nianzhen's talent was clearly marked with a price, her body was clearly marked with a price, and her tears were also clearly marked with a price. She became the number one in the "Intimate Companionship" section, and the song she wrote turned into a 404 page. Two months later, Lin Yiming stood on the same stage. He held a piece of broken screen glass in his hand and pressed it against his neck. He's not here to perform. He came to ask a question. But when anger itself can be packaged into a program and put a price tag on it - does resistance break the system, or does it become part of the system?