In the future Xicheng, the "memory optimization" service launched by Yijing Technology Company has become a mainstream choice for healing trauma and pursuing happiness. People can cut off painful branches like pruning bonsai and graft on beautiful memories.
The painter Shen Yelan is a beneficiary of this technology. A car accident took away his true love and plunged him into creative exhaustion and endless sadness. After undergoing optimization, he forgot his pain, his life returned to peace, and his paintings became bright and warm, but he always felt that an important piece of the puzzle was missing from his world. His emotions became like a glass of warm water, safe but tasteless.
Until one day, a mysterious woman named Su Wanxing found him. She is a "memory archaeologist" dedicated to uncovering real memories that have been tampered with and covered up. She told Shen Yelan that what he lost was not just a period of sadness. The happiness he had been implanted was a carefully woven lie, and behind that "accident" was a secret that could subvert the entire order of Xicheng.
When the fragments of memory flash back like fleeting glimpses, and when the colors on the canvas begin to ooze a strange scarlet, Shen Yelan is forced to embark on a dangerous journey to find his true self. He must choose between false warmth and cruel truth, and every step he takes towards the truth brings him closer to danger.
