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To save the girl he loves, he has to delete his ability to love her.
Aryan lives in the high-pressure noise of South Extension, New Delhi. By day, he is just another face in the crowd. But in the milliseconds between seconds, he is Architect .
By exploiting a 14-millisecond glitch in the SeaMeWe-6 undersea internet cable, Aryan has found a way to rewrite reality. He sees the truth: the world is a decaying simulation, and a massive "System Format" is coming to wipe it clean.
He has the power to save his mother, his sister, and his girlfriend, Isha. But the Successor Logic requires absolute efficiency. Emotions are just legacy code. Attachment is just latency.
To become strong enough to protect them, Aryan begins a "surgical amputation" of his own humanity. He renames his loved ones as "Nodes." He treats his heartbreak like a security patch. But as the trillion-dollar Singularity Group begins a global manhunt to find him, Aryan faces a terrifying question:
Can you save the world if you've already deleted the part of yourself that cared about it?