In the "New Arc City" of 2077, memory is the most expensive commodity and the most deadly weapon. When the city's legendary "memory weaver" Ye Xingtong discovers that the "core memory" on which she is famous and the only pillar of her life has been stolen overnight, she can only turn to the last "classical" private detective in the city - Ling Xiao.
Ling Xiao is an alien who lives on the edge of the digital age. He refuses any unnecessary prosthetic implants and insists on observing with his eyes and thinking with his brain. He is out of tune with this city built of data and neon.
This case is far stranger than imagined: there are no traces of intrusion at the scene, the victim's mind is impregnable, and his memory seems to have evaporated out of thin air. As Ling Xiao conducted an in-depth investigation, he discovered that behind the stolen memories were links to a series of long-forgotten deaths, and all clues pointed to the super enterprise that controls the lifeblood of the city - "Eternal Life Technology".
Is what Ye Xingtong lost a piece of the past, or a lie that shouldn't exist? In the maze of memories that are difficult to distinguish true from false, can Ling Xiao find the buried truth between his principles and the cruel reality? When the mirage collapses, what they will face will be a reality that will make the entire New Arc City tremble.
