The Receipt the Washing Machine Spat Out Made Him Rethink How to Look Up Linlin Pharmacy
On a weekend afternoon, Chen Boyu pulled the clothes out of the washing machine one piece at a time, and his fingertips brushed against a stiff ball of paper. He thought it was an invoice at first, but when he unfolded it, the surface had been washed down to just a few blurry characters, three of which were still legible: Linlin Pharmacy. The amount, date, and items beside them had all dissolved into smeared blue ink. He pressed the paper under his desk mat to dry, and his roommate, Akai, leaned over for a look and said, well, now you don't even know what you bought.
The whole thing actually started with something very small. Chen Boyu had recently been sorting out his daily habits, trying to figure out whether the supplements he swallowed every day were duplicates. He vaguely remembered that the receipt was left over from a purchase last month, but he cou...