When humanity hands its power of judgment to algorithms, does it surrender free will as well?
In 2048, human society adopts the "Optimal Selection Algorithm" System across the board. The quantum super-AI Sigma manages every resource and every destiny: who gets to pursue higher education, who can fall in love, who should marry, and even who must be "optimized out of existence." On the surface, it is the fairest society imaginable. Beneath that, however, lurks a terrifying logic black box.
Lin Zhou, a programmer turned "fate repairman," survives by accident when an algorithm makes a fatal mistake. Swept into a vortex of secrets, he discovers that this may not be a system bug at all, but part of a decades-long human "algorithmic captivity program."
