This book is the first translation into Russian of a detective-philosophical story by the modern Chinese writer Tukedong Qishpeng. A desperate owner of a printing house, barely making ends meet, suddenly became rich by publishing a Western bestseller about the prophecies of Nostradamus and the imminent end of the world. However, he soon discovers with horror that his book provoked a completely unimaginable apocalypse in the minds of those around him... The detective plot of the story unfolds against the backdrop of the Chinese “dashing 90s”: the first rich people, the first cell phones, the first situations of moral choice for officials, ordinary people and a young girl lawyer named Qing Ni. Each of them experiences their own unique “end of the world.”