Above the Crest of the Tide

At the heart of this data war lies the way technology has distorted real human emotion: a crisis of trust between spouses, coded signals between father and daughter, and a battle over computing power between grassroots officials and a corporate conglomerate all weave together into a suspenseful portrait of a near-future city. As data ownership becomes a hot topic on every street corner, and the red thumbprint of every tea farmer becomes a blockchain node, Shen Yanbing discovers that the key to unraveling the conspiracy is hidden in her daughter’s sketchbook. The roots of that “Tearful Tea Tree” are breaking through all the virtual prosperity and reaching down into the real earth.