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Meng Mohuai has been laid off for three months. He’s sent out 400 resumes, interviewed at eleven companies, and received zero offers. He thinks he lacks ability, is too old, or is caught in a bad job market. Until he discovers that… Interview invitations are sent and then withdrawn. Offers are made and then canceled. His address changes from 501 to 503. Another “unlaid-off version” of him sits at his former colleague’s desk. It’s not that he can’t find a job. His page in the master draft was left unfinished. The master draft is the world’s source code. Before each person who writes a version is “reset,” they leave behind traces of edits. Some people can see them. Chen Mo is one of them. He sees that Old Zhou has two faces, that the sixth floor of Building 12 in the urban village has disappeared, and that a USB drive is hidden in former colleague Li Wei’s desk drawer. In the final three seconds of its recording, a woman’s voice says, “Stop recording. He’s listening.” But the master draft is “shrinking.” It’s withdrawing every “unfinished product”: the unemployed, fresh graduates, full-time children, and middle-aged workers replaced by AI. You weren’t rejected. The master draft deleted you from the “needed” field. Meng Mohuai finds a pen, one that can write on the master draft. With every line he writes, he disappears a little more. But he has to keep writing, because if he doesn’t, everyone will disappear. This is the story of an unemployed man reclaiming his page. And it’s a story everyone who’s ever sent out a resume should read.