Li Ao just wants to survive.
Hunted by the AI System in Zone A and erased from the records, he flees to a place so dark even the surveillance cameras refuse to record it: the Lost City of Zone D.
There, he meets Lin Wei.
A woman who controls the underground intelligence network and is known as the Queen.
She is clever, dangerous, and a little pathologically possessive.
More fatally, she discovers that she cannot see Li Ao's future.
"Interesting."
So she saves him, and takes him in.
From clearing his identity to power struggles in the Black Zone, from striking back at AI agents to tearing apart the System's logic, they go from fugitives to masterminds working together to shape the world.
When the AI starts labeling him a "protocol-level threat,"
when the entire human order teeters on the brink of being calculated and erased,
Lin Wei smiles at him and says:
"Stop resisting. You were born to sit on the throne."
So Li Ao looks up at the gods.
This time, he decides to make AI learn to obey humanity's unpredictability.
