In the new Kyoto of 2077, a good mood is an obligation and a bad mood is a fine. As a glorious (officially certified, impressively remunerated) "emotional scavenger", my job is to clean up the "emotional garbage" that rich people accidentally leak and can drive people crazy.
My name is Lin Ye, a guy who pays his bills by cleaning up other people's sadness, anger, and fear. I thought my life would be a mess between sticky "despair" and burning "fury", until one day, I cleaned out a drop of pure golden "tears" that did not belong to the database from a corpse that was supposed to have "passed away peacefully".
From that moment on, trouble came to me like a discounted nutritional supplement. The black-clad agents of Heartscape Corporation, the intelligence dealers in the underground world, and the lunatics who pursue "real emotions"... They all want something from me.
