Stairs of Paradox

Original Title: 悖理阶梯
Author: 群青微尘
Status in COO: 83 Chapters
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Description:

Neon lights branch out like blood vessels across the sprawling iron-and-steel metropolis. Here, time itself has transformed into a liquid commodity—a tradeable luxury. The ultra-wealthy reside in technologically advanced eras of absolute privilege, while the impoverished remain permanently shackled to a stagnant, obsolete past, plunging the world into a state of absolute, chaotic lawlessness.

Diamonds, a silver-tongued con artist who is as cunning as he is multifaceted, excels at a single, exquisite craft: trafficking in beautiful lies. Yet, while orchestrating his latest heist to swindle precious time from a high-society elite of the Chrono-Entropy Corporation, he violently collides with the company’s absolute premier enforcer. The hitman strikes with merciless, lethal precision, intent on claiming his life.

Days after a miraculous, breath-narrow escape, a torrential downpour floods the city. Hidden within the rust of a sprawling scrap metal junkyard, the flamboyant trickster crosses paths with his deadly nemesis once more.

The enforcer’s cranial chip has suffered catastrophic structural damage. With his consciousness fractured and his memories completely wiped, the hitman struggles to speak, raspy and disoriented:

“Who… are you?”

Without missing a single beat, the master deceiver weaves his grandest lie yet:

“I’m your owner.”