I Can Dream of Tomorrow's Murders

Lin Xia, an auto insurance claims investigator, takes on a case involving a food delivery rider who drowned. But on page seven of the claim form, she sees her own ID photo, down to the tiny mole behind her left ear. At first, she thinks it's just a System mix-up. Then the fingerprints at the funeral home, seven death certificates from the municipal bureau bearing the same ID number, and a recurring dream at exactly 3:17 a.m. in which she sees herself from a third-person perspective shatter her hopes that it's all a mistake. The truth is that the "Tomorrow Engine" project at Lanchuan Group turned "Lin Xia" into a replicable archival record, and the body she inhabits is a company-insured asset. Every person she saves makes her more valuable, but after the seventh retrieval, she will be deleted. With only her remaining "name" to bargain with, she must trade it for the complete files on 47 life insurance claims, the original audio from that night in 2018, and her partner's authority to obtain evidence. Before she is erased, she must pin the hand that pushed her off the bridge to the chain of evidence.

Recommended: Her face is on page seven of the claim form. How many times can she be deleted?