In the cold order of the steel floating city of New Haishi, fate has long been precisely priced by data and capital.
Lin Zhou, a data laborer struggling at the bottom of society, is on the verge of having his life devoured by the corporate giant Tianqiong Capital when he accidentally activates the universe’s most mysterious taboo: the Causality Trading System.
This System offers no money and grants no supernatural powers. It deals only in the most fundamental kind of exchange.
[Trade: one act of your cowardice for one fatal mistake by your opponent]
[Trade: every rainy day you will experience over the next three years for a clue to a top-secret piece of intelligence]
[Trade: all your memories of your first love for a chance to turn the tables]
From that moment on, Lin Zhou becomes the only one pulling the strings, and his trading partner is fate itself. In a deadly contest against Wall Street wolves, tech tycoons, underground organizations, and even other holders of “systems,” he uses one outrageous trade after another to move a world ruled by algorithms.
With human hearts as his stakes and causality as his lever, he stirs up a storm across capital’s chessboard and advances step by step toward the throne of supreme power.
Yet when he finally looks back, he discovers that the price of every trade was marked out long ago. When the fate of the entire world is laid on his trading table, what will he pay with?
