I Won an Island in the Lottery

Li Yaolin is a twenty-two-year-old college graduate whose life has been destabilized by a series of financial betrayals. After discovering that her father absconded with the proceeds from the family home sale and her internship employer vanished with unpaid wages, she is left with barely over one thousand yuan. While attempting to salvage some value from lottery tickets distributed by her former company, she scratches one that reveals the words "Taipa Island" instead of a prize. This triggers the appearance of a mysterious mobile application called "Poseidon Holiday," which refuses to be uninstalled and claims she has won ownership of the island. The application presents Li Yaolin with a task to activate her authority as the island owner by physically traveling to the island. Upon arriving at the coastal town of Baoren Port, she learns from a local shop owner that the island was previously attempted as a tourist development by a wealthy investor who lost millions and abandoned the project due to regulatory and financial failures. Despite the risks, Li Yaolin boards a ferry to the uninhabited island. Upon landing, the app officially binds her to the island, renaming it Xingzhou Island and granting her a one million yuan cash reward. However, the application reveals that operating the island requires significant capital, and her satisfaction metric with the entity known as Poseidon is already declining due to inactivity. Li Yaolin discovers that the island is in a state of disrepair, covered in garbage and marine waste left by previous visitors. Using her initial funds, she hires a professional cleaning team through the app and begins developing infrastructure. She constructs a ticket gate, paves roads, upgrades public toilets, and develops a white sand beach and a sea fishing ground. These developments attract local anglers, particularly after online forums highlight the presence of valuable red groupers in the surrounding waters. The influx of visitors increases the island's popularity and improves her Poseidon satisfaction rating. To manage the growing operations, Li Yaolin rents a room in the nearby town and recruits safety guards and lifeguards. She contacts a classmate, Lin Qitong, who runs a self-media account, to handle commercial promotion for the island. Li Yaolin studies nearby successful tourist attractions like Yuhai Park to understand market dynamics, realizing that her island must offer unique experiences to compete. She faces the ongoing challenge of balancing development costs against revenue, as infrastructure upgrades and pollution control consume her funds rapidly. The narrative follows her transition from a displaced graduate to an active island developer, navigating the supernatural constraints of the Poseidon system while managing the practical demands of tourism and environmental sustainability.