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After My Wife Left Me in Old Age, the System Finally Arrived

share time: 2025-12-04 06:02:18

62-year-old Zhou, a community maintenance worker, spent 40 years with his wife Xiufen. One morning, Xiufen slapped a divorce agreement on the table: "I've endured your 'lack of romance' for a lifetime. Now I'm going to be a volunteer at a nursing home to live for myself." Zhou was dumbfounded—they’d made zongzi for their grandson just yesterday, but today they were strangers. Squatting at the stairwell smoking, his phone suddenly displayed the "Late-Life Wish System": "Fulfill three of your spouse's unfulfilled wishes to unlock 'Happy Old Age'." Reluctantly, he searched for Xiufen's old sewing machine, only to find a stack of crumpled cancer medical records in an old wooden box—Xiufen had breast cancer 20 years ago. To save money for Zhou's mother's treatment, she secretly gave up both treatment and her dream of being a tailor. The system’s mission was never about "counterattacking"; it was about helping him see the tenderness Xiufen had hidden for a lifetime...

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