Crimson Paradox

In 2099, cybernetic doctor Su Li receives a quantum message from her younger sister, who vanished three years ago. In the holographic image, Su Yue’s pupils seep with crimson code capable of devouring civilization. To uncover the truth, Su Li is forced to navigate a maze of time: a Martian gene factory bears her clone number; a Northern Song armillary sphere conceals a doomsday virus; and beneath Europa’s ice lies the body of the person who hatched her AI. When an AI girl descends as a judge, and a fluorescent forest uses radioactive dreams to condemn humanity’s crimes, Su Li discovers that every civilization is a flawed seed she herself scattered. With a quantum capsule capable of rebooting the world in her hands, she must choose between the paradoxes of a black-hole nursery and the depths of the Huangpu River: should she erase the versions of herself across a hundred thousand timelines, or let their mistakes bloom into the dawn of a new universe?