Words Remembered by the Floating River

In the futuristic city of Fuchuan, memories are commodities that can be extracted, traded, and even erased. Lin Ci, the most skilled “memory cleanser,” makes a living removing other people’s painful memories, yet he has lost his own entirely.

A mysterious commission from Mu Wanqing, chairwoman of Yongxi Group and the city’s supreme ruler, draws him into a deadly whirlpool. He is asked to erase a memory buried beneath layers of encryption in Mu Wanqing’s mind. But the moment he enters her mental world, he glimpses a disaster the entire city has forgotten, and a face in the flames that looks exactly like his own.

To reclaim the identity stolen from him, Lin Ci must wager everything in a battle of will and wits against Mu Wanqing, who controls it all. His only ally is “Zero,” an elusive information broker from the Lower City. Every step is along a blade’s edge, and every search for the truth could lead to his complete “erasure.”

When the city’s scars are reopened and everyone is forced to awaken from a false happiness, will he become a savior or a destroyer? And behind the secret guarded by the ice-cold queen atop the tower, is there an ambition to save the world, or a crime that will bury everything?

This is a story about memory, identity, and resistance. In Fuchuan, forgetting comes at the heaviest price.