[Highly Intelligent Hacker Heroine ✖️ Top-Tier Power Players ✖️ Cyberpunk]
In Ladder City, your genes determine whether you live above the clouds or wallow in the muck.
Su Man, a “second-class citizen” born in the city’s lowest depths, possesses the only forbidden chip in the entire Federation: “Mandragora.”
It can quantify desire, simulate the perfect lover, and even hack into people’s minds by reading their microexpressions.
To escape radiation and starvation, she has to climb her way up.
She disguises herself as the perfect prey, takes on a forged identity, and enters the hunting grounds of the powerful.
To Qin Yu, the innocent and passionate heir to a conglomerate, she is a gentle, steadfast confidante, the one vulnerability he has in the steel jungle;
To Gu Han, the cold and ascetic Federation commander, she is a mysterious soulmate, the only opponent daring enough to dance with him on the mech battlefield;
To Xie Rui, the deranged and obsessive underground city lord, she is an equal accomplice, one of his own, licking their wounds together in the abyss.
They think they are raising a canary.
Little do they know that the canary is quietly rewriting their brain permissions, dragging these lofty gods down from their pedestals.
When she stands above the clouds, gazing down at the steel forest below,
the men ask, eyes red, “Did you ever love me at all?”
Su Man wipes the blood from the corner of her mouth and smiles:
Sorry, the “love” module isn’t installed on my chip.
