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No Money for New Year? I Activated the Zero-Cost Purchase System!

share time: 2026-02-09 00:38:03

Lin Xiaoman, a Beipiao for three years, didn't dare to go home for the New Year because she had no savings—afraid of her parents' disappointment when they secretly checked her wallet, afraid of relatives saying “Xiaotang next door has bought a school district house with her boyfriend,” even hesitating to buy a home ticket with her last 300 yuan. Late at night, eating cold instant noodles outside a convenience store, her phone suddenly vibrated: “Zero-Cost Purchase System Activated”—changing a light bulb for an elderly grandma gets her cured sausage, sending hot milk tea to an overtime programmer gets her Spring Festival couplets! When she stood downstairs with the redeemed New Year goods, she bumped into Gu Chuan in an old卫衣—the white moonlight who helped her pick up exercise books in middle school, who actually said, “I'm here for the system tasks too!” From pasting couplets together to making tangyuan with grandma, Xiaoman gained the courage to go home, and even found out: the so-called “system” was just a gentle trap woven by Gu Chuan—he had already returned to China, afraid that she wouldn't dare to face her “failed self,” so he used this way to accompany her to turn “afraid to go home” into the expectation of “wanting to jump into mom's arms immediately.”

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