When memories become fuel for the financial markets, who can still remember what it means to be human?
Lin Feng, a finance worker struggling on the brink of bankruptcy, has only one obsession: finding his missing father. But a global "Quantum Financial Storm" completely destroys the existing order. Cold algorithms take over the world, human consciousness becomes a bargaining chip, and memories are forcibly "halted" by the System: deleted, harvested, and assigned a price.
To his horror, Lin Feng discovers that he is the "living key" to this disaster: TS-00. The chip in the back of his neck, the bronze ring on his ring finger, and the fragmented images that keep flashing through his mind all point to a truth someone deliberately erased: how his father, Lin Guodong's failed quantum experiment in 1999, gave rise to the "Entropy Weaver," a force that devours humanity.
Time loops, and memories are altered. His former lover, Su Qing, has become the cold System administrator TS-07. The mysterious Yang Xue leaves a deadly warning at the end of the timeline. The resilient single mother Wang Shufen and her son Xiao Jie, who is immune to quantum erosion, become beacons of light in the darkness. And the ape that guides the way carries his father's final cry...
To break free from this eternal financial hell, Lin Feng must venture into the heart of the quantum abyss. He must face more than torrents of cold code and data monsters. He must also confront the ultimate choice: become the god-slaying "Phoenix," severing the cold cycle at the cost of erasing everyone he loves, or seek a glimmer of hope and reclaim the warmth and future of humanity before his memories are completely halted?
