Cheng Xin

Character from deaths-end by Liu Cixin

The aerospace engineer turned Swordholder whose merciful instinct will doom four billion people, and whose forgiving instinct will outlive the universe itself.

Also known as: 程心, Cheng, the Swordholder, Madonna of the Stars, the Holy Mother, Goddess

What They Know

• She is the legal owner of star DX3906 and its planets, given to her in the Crisis Era by an anonymous benefactor (Yun Tianming)
• She once approved Yun Tianming's brain for the Staircase Program, sending the man who loved her toward the Trisolaran fleet to be captured and revived
• She knows she failed as Swordholder — that Sophon told her plainly she was chosen because she was the candidate guaranteed not to fire
• She controls Halo Group, the corporation through which Wade attempts to build humanity's first lightspeed ship
• She decoded, with AA and the IDC, that Yun Tianming's three fairy tales contain the schematic for curvature propulsion and the warning of the dual-vector foil
• She survives every catastrophe by entering hibernation and emerging into a more broken world — Crisis Era, Deterrence, Broadcast, Bunker, Galaxy
• She and Guan Yifan are the last witnesses of our universe, sealed in pocket universe 647 to wait out the heat death and return mass at the appointed time

Connections

• loves — yun_tianming
• friend_of — aa
• rivals — thomas_wade
• ally_of — luo_ji
• enemy_of — sophon
• leads — halo_group
• located_in — deterrence_center

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