Lin Xia can understand any non-living object she touches and reshape matter between her hands. Now her power is growing faster, becoming cheaper to use and capable of creating machines that conventional engineering cannot yet reproduce. But every success creates a new demand. While Lin Xia fights to finish university and protect time for her own ideas, her father's workshop comes under coordinated pressure.
Counterfeit components, hostile inspections, stolen prototypes and industrial rivals reveal a route leading from local corruption to foreign operatives determined to obtain her technology.
Lin Xia can understand any non-living object she touches and reshape matter between her hands. Now her power is growing faster, becoming cheaper to use and capable of creating machines that conventional engineering cannot yet reproduce. But every success creates a new demand. While Lin Xia fights to finish university and protect time for her own ideas, her father's workshop comes under coordinated pressure.
Counterfeit components, hostile inspections, stolen prototypes and industrial rivals reveal a route leading from local corruption to foreign operatives determined to obtain her technology.