Chapter One: Uninstall Failed

[The Twenty-Eight Day Proof will begin. Each day, implement one improvement genuinely useful to a majority of the specified population. Failure resets reality to Day One, 06:00. Only memories of failure remain.] [Day One population: people leaving Cloudstep Tower between 18:00 and 19:00.] [Task: improve their exit experience.] Chen laughed and took a screenshot. The image showed an ordinary home screen. At midnight, a countdown appeared: 17:59:59. The next day, he returned to Cloudstep Tower. He did not believe the app; his access badge still worked, and he had forgotten a mug. He spent two hours making a handsome poster asking employees to leave at staggered times. Fifteen scanned its code. Eleven liked it. At seven, the verdict arrived.