On a night when a blizzard seals off the mountains, travel blogger Lin Xia is trapped at a mountain lodge with Jiang Lin, its cold-faced owner, and the two are drawn into the aftermath of an interstellar escape. The wreckage of a subterranean warp engine awakens. The eye-key of a frozen female corpse, an iris sigil encoded with insectoid genes, and a father-son cipher spanning time and space emerge one after another. When a healing, chatterbox personality becomes a "living spark" for an advanced civilization, an assassin and his sworn enemy, a detective, are forced to uncover the bloody truth together: what is called the law of the universe is merely an entropy-increasing prison wrapped around a lie. And the warmth of their palms pressed together will eventually burn through the icy armor of a conspiracy spanning billions of light-years.
