How Can You Make Cards Without Money?

In 2047, the city I lived in was named the internet's happiest city.

Because its residents couldn't afford internet access cards.

But I'm different. I'm a card maker.

DM me 50 and I'll come make you a card.

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Planes and subways are sealed into cards, skyscrapers are laid out in card arrays, and bodies and minds are rewritten by cards.

Tang Yuan transmigrates to a modern society where everything is a card and gets a card-making interface.

From an impoverished student saddled with enormous loans, he rises step by step to become a card-making tycoon who writes the world itself.

"Citizens are urged to invest responsibly and beware of card-making scams." - Anti-Fraud Publicity Center.

"Company X has created a new starship card. The lunar mission is back on, and only advanced card makers may apply for a spot." - Lunar Mission Administration.

"Astronomers stunned: a new planet discovered in the solar system, with traces of card patterns on its surface!" - NASA News Flash.

Years later, Tang Yuan sits in a barren crater. He lifts his gaze from the card depicting a planet to the camera of the spacecraft pointed at him and says indignantly:

"This is my home, the planet card I just made. I'm not taking interviews right now!"