In the new Shanghai of the future, there is a legend circulating in the underground memory black market - Sang Ying, a skilled "memory hunter", can completely extract the memories of others without leaving any traces, but knows nothing about her own past. When she was hired to extract the memory of technology giant Qi Yuan, she accidentally triggered a blocked childhood memory and discovered that she might be Qi Xue who was declared dead twenty-three years ago, and her father was the neuroscientist Qi Weidong who was murdered by the "Spider Web" organization.
As the side effects of memory fusion intensified, Sang Ying began to experience memory flashbacks that were not her own, and even awakened the ability to predict the future. With the help of Qi Yuan, she gradually uncovers the truth: she is a "prototype body" transformed by the "Spider Web", and her brain not only contains key research on her father's resistance to memory control technology, but also lurks a fatal program that can destroy or control the global memory network.
In order to stop the conspiracy of Ma Yuefeng, the leader of the "Spider Web", Sang Ying must face the trauma deep in her memory and make a choice between "recovering her true identity" and "protecting the freedom of memory." In the final battle, she chose to permanently connect herself to the memory network and become the guardian of mankind's collective memory. And her sacrifice left a glimmer of hope in the smiles of the iterated children and the mysterious signal Qi Yuan received - the memory may be tampered with, but the true bond will never fade away.
(Science fiction suspense + identity puzzle + ethical dilemma. Explore how memory shapes human nature and individual resistance under technological hegemony.)
