In a future where emotions are clearly priced and negative feelings are subject to "taxation," Lin Mo is a two-faced man living on a knife's edge. During the day, he is a cold-blooded "emotional auditor" for the Social Security Bureau; at night, he transforms into an "emotional brewer" who turns stone into gold in the black market, tempering anger and despair into luxury goods and selling them to elites who crave excitement. A sky-high price order arrived - the customer specified "the purest despair when faith collapses", and the reward was actually a horrifying truth about the system's AI "Father God". At the same time, Su Rui, a genius prosecutor who firmly believes in systemic justice, has locked him in as the number one suspect. When the virtual paradise becomes the ultimate prison and real emotions become contraband, Lin Mo must use his most dangerous works as weapons to create an "emotional revolution" that subverts the world in pursuit and temptation.
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This is not only science fiction, but also a spine-chilling mirror. When emotions become currency and positive energy becomes a mandatory obligation, are we also sliding into the abyss of "smiling means compliance"? The author uses amazing imagination to construct a logical and self-consistent terrifying future. The protagonist's double-sided life, wandering between the system's hawks and black marketeers, is full of tension. The core of the story sharply stabs at the crux of contemporary times: Have we, who are coerced by performance and traffic, already acquiesced to the deprivation of our own emotions? This is a dangerous and fascinating thought experiment for anyone whose senses have not yet been numbed.
This is not only science fiction, but also a spine-chilling mirror. When emotions become currency and positive energy becomes a mandatory obligation, are we also sliding into the abyss of "smiling means compliance"? The author uses amazing imagination to construct a logical and self-consistent terrifying future. The protagonist's double-sided life, wandering between the system's hawks and black marketeers, is full of tension. The core of the story sharply stabs at the crux of contemporary times: Have we, who are coerced by performance and traffic, already acquiesced to the deprivation of our own emotions? This is a dangerous and fascinating thought experiment for anyone whose senses have not yet been numbed.