The Cataclysm of the Book of Things

This world has an invisible editor. It cuts away pain, and along with it, love, growth, and every unseemly truth. The memories it deletes do not disappear: they sink beneath the earth and grow into calamities. Lin Yan is an ordinary person responsible for containing them. His one talent is recording other people's pain. Each time he writes it down, another mark appears on his body. Write too much, and he'll be ruined. His colleagues call it "accumulation" and tell him to mind his own business. But he can't forget. He can't forget Old Zhou, who took a knife for him, or the light in the hospital room that refused to go out. Later, he discovers that his ability to "remember" is not an illness, but a key. From the weeping in an abandoned hospital to the thousand-year formation at the ancestral grounds of the Canglu Yuan, from the fate-rift observatory of the Severed Frame Sect to the throbbing black heart deep in an underground palace, Lin Yan keeps climbing higher, all the while being warned: if you keep remembering, the world will delete you. At his side is a woman named Su Wan, who seals the backlash for him, gradually trading away her own existence for his life. There is also a madman named Gu Yan, who wants to take his place. In the end, when Lin Yan stands before the editor, he is given only two choices: keep cutting, or be cut. He chooses a third path: remember everything. And so, the people who were deleted return, one by one.