Calculating the World

When political intrigue can be quantified and human nature calculated, the fall of the Dayin Dynasty is nothing more than a cold mathematical problem in Lin Yuyi's inkstone.

As the former chief disciple of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau, he was exiled by the mentor he revered most for declaring, "Astrology is not the will of heaven, but a data model of human nature and power." He was reduced to an ant among the ruins of the capital.

He possesses eyes that can see through everything: "The imperial throne is the sun; the great clans are planets." Courtly power struggles and schemes of the heart are nothing more than strings of cold data that can be broken down and predicted, and "singularities of power" that can be exploited and set off.

A scheming prince who wants to cut the strings controlling his puppet life makes a blood pact with him, and they dance together on the edge of a cliff.

A refugee leader who trusts only the blade in his hand becomes the most impassioned executor of Lin's cold calculations.

A surviving heir of the former dynasty who seeks to buy the entire empire with money regards him as the most dangerous kindred spirit and rival.

This war, wielding data as its blade, has nothing to do with the struggle for the throne or revenge!

It is the ultimate reckoning between a "deconstructor of rules" and a "defender of the System"!

He will dissect the rotten formulas of the Dayin Dynasty and rebuild a better world atop its ruins!

"The world bustles with activity for just one reason: scheming!

Calculating human nature, calculating interests, calculating the right moment!

The gods and Buddhas you worship are nothing but beads on my abacus!"