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Family Love Has No Quota, Human Heart Is Hard to Measure

share time: 2026-02-16 12:31:31

Lin Xiaoman, who was PUAed by her son-preferring family for twenty years, suddenly binds a "Family Affection Value Detection System"—her mother's "care" is a performative negative score, her brother's "help" is a zero score for exploitation, and even her father's "nagging" hides calculations for old-age support. She decides to stop being the family's "ATM" and reverses her life with the system's guidance: from a convenience store worker to a popular internet planner, she first buys her own small apartment with the money she earns, then makes love breakfast for the neighbor senior who has always warmed her. But when her family finds out she's "not easy to manipulate", they suddenly become "thoughtful"—her mother cooks her favorite soup, her brother offers to help her move packages, but the system pops up a red warning: "Family affection quota temporarily rises, real purpose:索要 fifty thousand yuan for startup funds". Lin Xiaoman smiles and pours the soup into a thermos: "Want to borrow? First pay back the two hundred thousand yuan I gave the family over the years". What she wants is never "being needed", but a sincere heart without calculations, and that sincerity is slowly boiling in the hot coffee handed by the senior...

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