Everyone in Seoul knows when they're going to die. The algorithm told them. Second book. Six months after Book One (The Tiger That Time Forgot), prediction apps have infected reality. The Azure Dragon sees all futures but can't find the present. Lady Haste's optimization virus is making people speedrun their entire lives in an hour-birth to death, maximum efficiency, zero actual living. The only cure? Seven Korean grandmothers with kimchi too complex to calculate and a revolutionary plan: Make an entire city late. On purpose. All at once. Armed with fermented foods, combat knitting, and guilt that operates outside spacetime, the halmeoni resistance fights algorithms with the ultimate weapon: deliberate inefficiency. Because when the future arrives before the present, being late isn't just rebellion-it's survival. "Like Black Mirror collided with Studio Ghibli in a Korean market." "Weaponized grandmothers. Optimization allergies. A turtle still walking from Book One. Absolute genius." "I threw my phone away after reading this. Best decision ever." The fantasy that made readers choose to be late. Your optimized life ends in 47 minutes. *Unless you close this app and read.