In a near future where memories can be extracted, bought, sold, and altered, Chen Mo, a disillusioned story buyer, is saved from the brink of suicide by Lin Xia, a girl carrying a shocking mystery. In exchange for helping her “uncover the truth behind her father’s death,” she drags him into a deadly struggle against a vast conspiracy. They discover that an ancient organization called the Chronicle Society is systematically stealing and rewriting humanity’s collective memories to control the way history is told. From urban escape rooms to deep-sea bases, from data abysses to rifts in spacetime, the two flee for their lives, find allies, and expose the truth. In the end, they must join forces to break into the heart of the Society and launch a global war of consciousness, not to conquer, but to return the power to choose what “memory” and “truth” mean to every person.
