"If the encounter is staged, is the bond still considered real?"
(Warm reminder, I wanted to say that the setting is the Pokémon parallel universe. There are some personal settings, such as the blue flame form of Charizard, the mechanical three holy birds, the three-color flame bird, etc.)
When Xu Mo was sixteen years old, he got a special Charmander from Qingyan Town - its flames were rare blue and could not be subdued by the Poké Ball, but it could calm the rage of other Pokémon. As the journey unfolds, he discovers that the Charmander was not born naturally, but resulted from a forbidden genetic experiment. And he himself was actually part of the experiment.
The pursuit of the extremist organization "Purifiers", the crazy plan of the experiment leader, and the restless ancient power in Charmander's body all pushed them to a fate of no return. When the truth tears apart trust and when evolution is accompanied by pain, Xu Mo must face an ultimate question: If their encounter was arranged, is the life, death and growth they have experienced together still worth believing?