In a future where time has become the ultimate tool of exploitation, humans are forcibly implanted with “time-gland organs” to quantify their right to live. The rich use “slow-time technology” to stretch one second into an hour, savoring “century-aged liquor” brewed from the quantum essence of the poor’s brains. The poor, meanwhile, are forced to “burn through fast time,” spending their subjective lifespans in exchange for the resources needed to survive in the slums. How will Lin Xiu defy fate and change his destiny? Let’s wait and see.
