Lime and the Evening Breeze

The Green Lime and the Evening Breeze is a soft science-fiction novel blending quantum physics with the ache of youth. Ye Fan, a high school senior, struggles through loops of time in an attempt to save his childhood friend Ning Xi, who died in a car accident, only to uncover a chilling truth: he is a cloned vessel for a quantum experiment. As the scent of green limes on campus mingles with mechanical tentacles and a temporal plague devours the city, he must face a brutal ethical question across seventy thousand cycles: Is saving someone a matter of correcting mistakes, or weaving an even more elaborate lie through the filter of one’s own perception? This battle across time, with heartbeats as its algorithm, will ultimately confront all who transmigrate with the question: Are we all recursive souls trapped in a Möbius loop?