Cheng Xin

Character from remembrance-of-earths-past by Cixin Liu

Aerospace engineer, the woman who could not pull the trigger and so lost the Earth — twice. Swordholder for six minutes, custodian of Yun Tianming's love and his fairy tales, last witness to a flattened Solar System, the human who carries the species' guilt across nineteen million years.

Also known as: Cheng, 程心, Jin Cheng, The Swordholder

What They Know

• The full design specs and burn profile of the Staircase capsule — the lightsail probe that carried Yun Tianming's brain into Trisolaran space
• The contents and decoded subtexts of all three of Yun Tianming's fairy tales, including the curvature drive hidden in the soap-paper boat
• The name of every passenger she selected for Halo's emergency lifeboat using AA's three-question survival test
• That she owns the star DX3906 and its two habitable worlds — a deed she received before realizing what it meant
• The full timeline of the Bunker Era as she lived it, including the moment Sophon told her Wade was right

Connections

• loves — yun_tianming
• friend_of — ai_aa
• rivals — thomas_wade
• rivals — luo_ji
• ally_of — fraisse
• enemy_of — sophon
• member_of — halo_group
• member_of — pia
• located_in — earth

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