In the age of Artificial Intelligence, the Blueprint Research Center has become a dominant field of study. Those at the apex of the social pyramid scramble to congregate at the Center, seeking to draft blueprints for themselves and their children in hopes of ascending even further in socio-economic status.

The middle class resorts to every possible means to join this trend, desperate to secure a better future for themselves and the next generation.

Meanwhile, those at the bottom seem entirely detached, excluded from this movement altogether. They passively accept the world’s changes—or perhaps, more extremely, they lack the power and the sentiment to even register the transformations brought about by Blueprint research.

But ultimately, whose future is the Blueprint Research Center actually manufacturing?

The author of this book possesses a background spanning engineering, strategy, and systems design; she is accustomed to using models, hypotheses, and data to understand how the world operates. In her daily work, she frequently contemplates how terms like efficiency, prediction, and optimization are used to influence decision-making—and what happens to the human soul when these concepts are pushed to their absolute limit.

The Blueprint Research Center is her first full-length novel, born from a question that continues to haunt her:

If life can be precisely predicted and systematically optimized, what exactly have we lost?

She holds neither a romanticized nor fearful view of technology itself. Instead, she is concerned with how technology, once integrated into reality, quietly alters human choice, relationships, and value judgments. This work is not intended to depict technological spectacles, but rather to write about those living in a "highly rational world" who still feel confused, hesitant, or even long for a moment of losing control.

This work was originally conceived and written in Chinese. This English edition, translated and adapted by the author, seeks to preserve the cultural nuances and philosophical weight of the original text.