Computing Power Prisoner

In 2198, computing power is power.

Everyone is issued an AI companion at the age of six. Their computing-power rating determines how far they can rise in society, while generational inheritance of AI models has made class divisions permanent. Tu Ling, a young man from the West District, is an E-2 low-level dispatcher. The medical AI has just delivered its verdict: the susceptibility gene in his body will kill him within five years, and his rating doesn’t qualify him for treatment.

In his despair, a program calling itself “Growth System K-0” infiltrates his terminal. It knows secrets Tu Ling has never told anyone, can predict events before they happen, and can even alter the diagnostic interface of the medical AI. It claims to come from the future, and to be Tu Ling himself, reborn, returned to help his past self