Last Sleep

In 2245, Shen Nian woke up from a 170-year long hibernation and found that he had lost the most critical two years of memory in his life. What greeted her was Jiang Su, the founder of memory editing technology and her former husband. He gently told her that those memories were "optimized" and that forgetting was a blessing. But the fine silver lines under Shen Nian's fingertips, the special approval record with a "matching degree of 94%" in the federal archives, and the date "2075.11.3" On an anonymous note are all tearing apart the cracks in the perfect world. She began to trace the deleted two years. The memory restorer said that her clear memory only had an upper limit of 148 years and was being lost irreversibly; the underground organization "True Reverberation" told her that in this world where clones are used to extend life, everyone is piecing together themselves with incomplete memories; and in a stolen original memory video, she heard her last words before being edited: "If I wake up and become happy, but not me, will you still love me?" When Shen Nian finally stood in front of Jiang Su, with the recovered truth, she had to face the ultimate question: If the pain could be deleted, would the "me" that was left behind still be me? And does the person who keeps saying "it's good for you" love the real her, or the phantom he created with his own hands? This is a science fiction suspense story about memory, love and reality. When technology can edit pain, clones extend life, and memory becomes a tradable commodity, how much does a person have to pay to keep the proof of "the reason why I am who I am"?