In a future world where "memory can be mortgaged and lifespan can be discounted", Chen Mo, an over-debt man, breaks through the ruins of the Gray Realm to the core of the Central Data Tower in order to recover his plundered daughter's memory. He witnessed a mother unable to recognize her parents and children after her memory was tampered with, a debt-free person surviving by absorbing other people's memories, and even children's "sweet taste" becoming the raw material for immortality potions. The cage woven by Yongxin Group using the "debt chain system" has already quantified human nature into a tradable commodity.
From dealing with memory dealers, to reuniting with undercover Lin Xia, from 1,000 over-debted people using "Despair Resonance" to attack the system, to using Zhao Kun's secret of eternal life in exchange for his daughter's antidote, Chen Mo gradually understood in the torn between "saving her daughter" and "resistance": those painful memories that are regarded as "burdens", the family affection and taste that are priced, are precisely the final force to break the shackles.
When the red light of the system's collapse lit up the gray night sky, and the rebels who had lost their sense of pain fell peacefully, Chen Mo finally held his daughter's hand tightly - it turns out that the real "sweetness" is never the hallucination in memory, but the courage to live with scars. This unfinished resistance finally left a footnote in the aroma of the strawberry field: codes can be rewritten, but human nature cannot; memories can be plundered, but living proof cannot.
