The Appraiser

Prism Assessment: the life-choice company with a 99.97% accuracy rate.

It tells you who to marry, what job to take, and what kind of person to become.

Three billion people around the world believe in it. No one questions it.

Except one person.

Shen Du, Prism’s chief assessor, has just two words in his aptitude assessment: “Lie Detector.”

What he sees isn’t the future, but the “future” Prism wants you to believe in.

He discovers a secret list of people Prism has labeled “defective.”

And every person on that list is being systematically eliminated.

Not through murder. Through “life design.”

Shen Du’s name is on the list.

Ranked first.

When Prism sends him his final assessment report:

“Shen Du, your optimal life path: death.”

He decides to make this 99.97% accurate machine pay for that 0.03%.

“When the whole world tells you which road to take, the one who takes a wrong turn is the only one who’s truly free.”