Receiving Texts from the Future—Isn’t Making Billions Only Natural?

Hot Noodles has requested to add you as a friend...

A baffling friend request from a contact who doesn't exist.

Messages from someone claiming to be her future self, who knows everything about her past.

Fang Xiaocao is completely stunned.

Hot Noodles: Danger. Don't go home tonight.

"Are you crazy?"

Fang Xiaocao rolled her eyes at the WeChat message and opened the front door.

Hot Noodles: At midnight, you'll hear knocking. If you don't want to die, don't turn on the lights.

12:00:00 a.m.

Fang Xiaocao woke to the sound of knocking. She was about to turn on her bedside lamp when she remembered the bizarre message.

She pulled her hand back and stayed put until dawn.

The single woman living across the hall was found brutally murdered at midnight...

Fang Xiaocao broke out in a cold sweat...

Hot Noodles: To celebrate surviving that ordeal, go to the secondhand market before 3 p.m. and buy the seventh inkstone from the left at stall number 7. The seller's asking price is 80 yuan. The inkstone is worth 8 million!

After what happened the night before, Fang Xiaocao followed the message on instinct and chose to believe it.

She managed to buy an inkstone for just 100 yuan.

Antique appraisal: An imperial inkstone from the Qianlong reign of the Qing Dynasty, worth 8 million!

Fang Xiaocao stood there in a daze!

Following the messages, she bought a secondhand car.

But the instructions turned out to be links in a chain, drawing her into a murder case and a staggering fortune worth two hundred million.

Who was the person on the other end?

Was it really her future self?

Or was this some kind of bizarre game?

(Note: This is primarily science fiction, not a traditional urban power fantasy. The early plot is rough, but the protagonist grows later on.)