In the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu, the year of Gengzi. It was supposed to be the moment when the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded the capital and the dynasty was in turmoil. However, history took a strange and unpredictable turn due to the arrival of a "meteor from the sky".
This piece of meteorite named "Taiyi" brought "ingenuity" that transcended the times. Steam prosthetics have replaced the incomplete body, mechanical parrots are broadcasting the imperial edicts on the glazed tiles, and within the red walls of the Forbidden City, there is a huge computing core composed of countless gears and pipelines - "Tianji Pavilion". The Qing Dynasty, this decadent giant, relied on this external power to barely stand on the edge of the cliff of doom.
However, beneath the bustling surface is a deeper darkness. The imperial court used ingenuity to create a pervasive surveillance network and a secret police called the "Weaving Machinery Mansion"; the powerful were indulged in the illusion of neural connections, the "Xumi Realm"; while the people at the bottom were exploited to their fullest extent in the cracks of steam and neon.
**Ling Xiao**, the sharpest knife in the "Weaving Mansion", an orphan whose senses and limbs have been strengthened by machinery, loyally executes every order to eliminate the "chaos", firmly believing that order is the only good medicine to save this country.
**Su Xinghuo** is the most talented craftsman in the revolutionary organization "Tinder". She can create miracles of resistance out of scrap metal. Her goal is to destroy the "Tianji Pavilion", liberate the power of "Taiyi" from the shackles of imperial power, and bring a true dawn to this desperate country.
