Ming Fei’s life looked painfully ordinary: a lonely gamer, a quiet classmate, and a boy whose biggest dream was to own a newsstand, sit in the sun, and earn enough to stay online. He had no mother to guide him, only crude relatives and a crush he could never forget. So when the strange challenge, the game-like struggle, and Nono’s cold “give up” hit him, it felt like the world itself was laughing at him.