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I Activated the Zero-Cost Purchase System When I Had No Money to Go Home for the Spring Festival

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Lin Xiaoman, who’d worked in Beijing for three years, finally saved enough to spend the last Spring Festival with her terminally ill mother—only to have all savings stolen by her roommate. In despair, a "Zero-Cost Purchase System" popped up on her phone, rule: "Exchange your most precious thing for equivalent items." Desperate to go home, she traded "a high school memory" for a train ticket and her mother’s life-saving medicine. But then she couldn’t remember Gu Jingshen, the boy who saved her years ago. Unbeknownst to her, Gu was the system’s developer—he’d been in a coma after saving her from a car accident, binding the system just to wait for her. When Xiaoman held the postcards Gu sent yearly (from her mother) and saw him downstairs with their childhood marbles, the system prompted: "To restore memories, return all exchanged items." Between her mother’s final days and the love she lost, what will she choose?

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