Summary
Chen Yu is 18, broke, and late to the whole “become a famous Bili UP master” trend that already cooled off before he even got serious about it.
He puts whatever savings he has into a basic camera setup, thinking unboxing tech videos would be an easy start. The results are the opposite, a few views, almost no comments, and that quiet realization every beginner hates, maybe this just isn’t for him. He even starts planning to sell the equipment and move on.
Then a strange account keeps sending him friend requests.
The name looks like a joke at first, something like “Transdimensional Marketing,” the kind of thing you ignore or block. But it keeps coming back, and out of boredom more than curiosity, Chen Yu replies.
The conversation doesn’t go the way he expects.
No money is offered, only products, and the products don’t fit anything he understands. Devices that look like they belong in decades far ahead, notebooks that behave like computational systems, lenses that seem to process information directly, machines that shouldn’t exist in any normal supply chain. It feels like a scam, or a very committed prank, except the other side knows things about his channel that they shouldn’t.
Life at home doesn’t make things easier. He shares a cramped household with his younger sisters, each one sharper, more favored, and somehow always the center of attention while he is treated like the “older brother who will figure something out eventually.”
Then something even stranger arrives without warning, a physical contract sitting in his room as if it had always been there.
From that point, ignoring it becomes harder than accepting it.
What starts as a failed attempt at online content slowly turns into something else entirely, Chen Yu reviewing impossible technology that should not exist in any single timeline, while trying to figure out whether he is building a career or stepping into something that was never meant to notice him.