(No love plot, no heroine)
In 2077, everyone has a "happiness chip" implanted in their brains - it makes you obedient, makes you satisfied, and makes you never know what pain is.
Lin Shen, porter No. 9527 Of District D garbage treatment plant, works 16 hours a day, eats nutritional ointments, and lives in a capsule cabin. The "happiness" the chip gives him is: "You are so lucky to have a stable job" that is automatically played before going to bed.
Until that day, he picked up a blood-stained memory chip in the garbage.
The chip did not belong to him, but the moment it was inserted into his brain, he saw a city suspended in the clouds—the legendary "First District" where only 0.01% Of humans are eligible to live.
He saw himself standing at the highest point of the city, with countless people kneeling at his feet.
From then on, two people lived in Lin Shen's mind: one was the memory of the world's heir, who taught him tactics, fighting, and how to climb up from the bottom; the other was himself, the "happy slave" who had been tamed by the chip for twenty years.
Following the guidance of his memory, he climbed up step by step: from the garbage dump to the factory, from the factory to the company, and from the company to the inner city.
With every step he takes, he gets closer to his identity as the "successor".
But with every step forward, he also takes a step further away from himself.
He began to be confused: did the anger and ambition in these memories belong to the chip owner, or to himself?
It wasn't until he climbed to the highest point and was the last step away from the "successor" that he discovered the truth——
