The Artificer of Heaven and Earth

Name: The Artificer of Heaven and Earth
Author: Long Zhaoyue

经纬天工

by Long Zhaoyue (龙昭樾)

Status: Completed
Length: 732k Words
Genre: Modern Romance
Subgenre: Modern Romance High-Concept
Updated: 11mo ago
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In 2028, Lin Shuyue, an inheritor of Suzhou embroidery, discovers on a stormy night that water reveals hidden markings on her family heirloom, the Star Constellation Chart: quantum codes. At the same time, the quantum chip belonging to tech elite Gu Xinghe unexpectedly goes out of control, and its cracks turn out to match patterns on a fragment of Tiangong Kaiwu. The two meet over the forced demolition of an ancient town and a technological conspiracy, exposing a data-colonization scheme by the multinational group Genesis. Under the guise of digitizing intangible cultural heritage with AI, the group plans to implant patterns containing neurotoxins. Shuyue inherits her master’s final wish and takes apart a bronze compass of the Twenty-Eight Mansions from a loom in the flower tower. Combined with fragments of Gu Xinghe’s chip, it becomes the first-generation Armillary Sphere, proving that embroidery stitches can compile quantum programs. The team ventures into the Forbidden City to retrieve the sole surviving copy of Tiangong Kaiwu and cracks a binary code on a Warring States lacquerware artifact, but the villain Antonio launches a “pattern plague”: AI contaminates cultural artifact data in museums around the world, and a Dunhuang caisson-ceiling mecha awakens from a mural. During the climactic battle at the Mogao Caves, the team uses embroidered prayer flags as a firewall and reassembles the mecha’s quantum core with a Ru ware crackle-glaze algorithm, only to discover that Shuyue’s master was its original developer. In the final particle collision at the Dragon Kiln in Jingdezhen, Gu Xinghe activates the star chart at the cost of quantum-converting his legs, revealing that a higher-dimensional civilization is using “craftsman soul resonance” to select civilizations. At the end of the volume, signals from Zheng He’s fleet emerge beneath the Antarctic ice, while the compass in Shuyue’s hand points toward the Forbidden City’s caisson ceiling...

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