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The city, this beast built of steel and glass, devours and disgorges streams of people by day, shimmering with tireless neon lights by night. Skyscraper spires pierce the clouds, as if to seize the secrets of heaven, while beneath their shadows, narrow alleys twist like the tangled intestines of the beast, squirming with humble yet tenacious lives.

In one such alley lived a young woman named Ah Mei. Her dwelling, less a room than a forgotten corner, could only accommodate a bed, a table, and a few stubbornly growing potted plants on the windowsill. Yet, Ah Mei's world was not entirely bleak. She possessed a "treasure"—an iPhone 6, its edges worn, its screen bearing fine scratches. In this age where the latest phones are updated like relentless tides, this old machine, in her hands, glowed with a peculiar light.

"Height is justice" - this mantra, which Xiao Jia held as an indisputable truth, had recently become the root of his anxiety. Watching his former childhood friends, once half a head shorter than him, now all looking impressive at the class reunion, even the company's receptionist was taller than him by a head. He felt like a dwarf abandoned by the times, his small body harboring the desire to grow like a wild weed bursting from the earth.

Xiao Jia decided to take a risk and go to a height-increase clinic that claimed to be "painless and fast-acting." The clinic was hidden in a dilapidated residential building in the suburbs, with no sign at the door, only the words "Height Dreams Start Here" scrawled on the wall. This eerie sense of mystery only made Xiao Jia more convinced that this was the place to make his dream come true.