The Memory Pawnshop: Trading My Life for Superpowers

Chen Mo, a food delivery driver, activates “Memory Pawn” to save his daughter, who has leukemia. He mortgages her first words, “Daddy,” in exchange for teleportation to deliver orders, then trades his wedding memories for anti-cancer medication. But he soon realizes every deal is like stepping into a cyber trap: his daughter treats him like a stranger, and he himself is gradually breaking down into data. The only thing seeping from beneath his fingernails is memory fragments the System has resold.

Even worse, his ex-wife arrives with the Black Snake Organization, wielding a memory-erasing gun aimed squarely at his “fatherhood module.” Chen Mo is horrified to discover that his daughter’s illness is a side effect of a memory-transplant experiment, and that the system he developed has become a human-body furnace. His vanished “mortifying memories” have been boiled down into a supernatural ability serum for the powerful to show off with. The painful memories he pawned have even taken physical form as shadowy apparitions hunting him: an angry version of himself in a delivery uniform, a younger version of himself holding a crayon drawing, and an apparition of his ex-wife calling him a kept man. It is like a cyberpunk ghostly showdown.

When he discovers that his daughter is a “memory vessel” and that his ex-wife is hiding the same kind of chip beneath her gun, the System flashes a soul-searching prompt: “Would you trade all your memories to save your daughter?” Chen Mo laughs, his voice turning into a stream of data: “I’m making this bet, and Dad’s memories must remain his property forever!”