Memory Trace

In the near-future sea market, a series of bizarre self-destruction cases broke the peace: a man who was afraid of heights jumped off the balcony, a miser burned all his belongings and then set himself on fire. There were no traces of external force at the scene, except for the extreme emotions that seemed to be awakened by the victim before his death. When Lu Man, the criminal police captain of the city bureau, reached a deadlock, he was forced to invite Lin Su, the former chief analyst of "neural tracing" technology. This genius, who was dejected by the collapse of his partner's experiment, can deconstruct subtle flaws in memory playback, but he is also easily swallowed up by negative memories. After forming an investigation team with hacker Ah K, they discovered that the case originated from a psychological virus called "Heart Erosion" - through "conceptual triggers" such as symbols and melodies, the victim's tampered traumatic memories were forcibly awakened, causing him to have a mental breakdown. As the tracing investigation deepens, all clues point to the failed "Dawn Project" - a memory editing experiment secretly conducted by Panshi Technology in its early years. What is even more disturbing is that the founder of the technology, Dr. Chen, appears. He is not a simple criminal, but a communicator who firmly believes that "memory is a cage" and regards "heart erosion" as a "baptism" to awaken the truth. When memory can be tampered with, and the truth is extremely poisonous, Lin Su must not only trace the source of the virus in the twisted memory maze, but also face his own tampered past. In this "memory game" where life is the bet, they will finally make a choice: embrace the lie of happiness, or bear the painful truth?