Shang Jiuzhen, the leading forensic memory expert, personally extracted irrefutable evidence from a dead man’s brain implicating her in her father’s murder.
To prove her innocence, she had no choice but to cut open his skull with her family’s ancestral puppet-measuring ruler, only to discover that her life was an elaborate hoax:
- The younger sister who supposedly “drowned” in childhood was actually her original personality.
- The serial killers she pursued were all versions of herself from different timelines.
- The revered “Memory Retribution Edict” was really part of a shocking conspiracy to conceal humanity’s conversion into “soul batteries.”
As the register of life and death in the cybernetic underworld begins its countdown, she must choose:
Destroy the quantum compass containing a hundred thousand memories, or become the AI judge of a new world?
