Glass Daughter

In the shadowed heights of New Tianjin, truth is hidden behind layers of augmented illusion—until one girl sees through the code.

Eighteen-year-old Kira Lian is a nobody in a city where everything is enhanced—except her. Scavenging to survive beneath the towering CorpSpire, she clings to a relic of her past: a neural lattice that belonged to the mother she never knew. But when a rogue AI outbreak plunges the city into chaos, Kira is pulled into the Drift Collective—a syndicate of hybrid outcasts who believe she holds the key to a mythic anomaly known as the glitch passage.

Through this hidden rift in the city’s augmented reality, Kira glimpses ghost maps, secret histories, and suppressed lives. She carries the “glass code,” a hybrid logic seeded in her mind, granting her access to reshape the city’s digital soul. As factions war to control her and digital phantoms whisper her origin, Kira must choose whether to become a weapon, a symbol—or something else entirely.

From uplifted shadowcats to fractured AI echoes, Kira’s journey cuts through identity, memory, and control in a city that never meant for her to be seen. But when the invisible is made visible, change becomes inevitable.

Glass Daughter is a vivid, character-driven cyberpunk epic about identity beyond biology, resistance through visibility, and finding humanity in the cracks of a high-tech dystopia.