In an era where emotions are quantified and traded, "hope" is the only forbidden item that cannot be priced.
Lin Xu, a top emotional futures trader, accumulates wealth by buying and selling human emotions. He is calm, greedy and empty. By chance, he captured an unprecedented sample of pure emotion - it could awaken the smallest light in despair, but was marked as a "program error" by the system.
This sample comes from a girl who is about to be "recycled" by his company.
When the capital giants launched the "Hope Elimination Plan" in an attempt to permanently monopolize the human emotional market, Lin Xu faced the craziest gamble of his career: Should he short this inestimable "hope", or should he bet all his wealth and short the entire cold world?
This is a huge gamble on the origin of human nature, and the stake is the last temperature of civilization.
