The Celestial Craftsman's Chronicle of Woven Time

While restoring a damaged piece of embroidery, Lu Xingyao, an inheritor of intangible cultural heritage, finds a mechanical tattoo on his left hand that devours flesh and blood. A blood-red countdown flashes across his retina: in 19 days, he will become the 50th "Shen Yunya" in history.

The 49 memories of death belonging to Shen Yunya, a master artisan of the Ming dynasty; an antimatter spark beneath the Grand Canal; a time worm capable of devouring Bianjing's Rainbow Bridge... When a quantum embroidery needle pierces the dark side of history, two souls separated by six hundred years are forced to share consciousness.

They struggle on the knife's edge of civilization's reset: using the "Xuanji Diagram" to alter a solar eclipse, weaving the solar system into a two-dimensional foil, fighting their future selves in the cybernetic Longmen Grottoes... Until, atop the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Forbidden City, Lu Xingyao, blood dripping from his embroidery needle, finally sees the truth:

All human lives are nothing more than zeros and ones woven together in an embroidery pattern.