Su Jingzhan, a 24-year-old ancient book restorer, has maternally inherited memory compensation constitution: he can completely strip away the traumatic and painful memories of others to himself. The person being compensated will completely forget the pain, leaving only vague positive emotions. Absolute taboo: Never disclose the compensation behavior to the person being compensated, otherwise the other party will suffer a hundred times the pain and suffer a mental breakdown and die in an instant.
Cost of compensation: Every time a traumatic memory is stripped away, a good memory of oneself and the person being compensated will be permanently and randomly lost; overload of compensation will lead to organ failure, total memory loss, and eventually a permanent vegetative state, with the consciousness trapped in all the stripped painful memories and tortured forever.
Shen Yanci, the 28-year-old youngest chief prosecutor of the Municipal Procuratorate, witnessed his parents and sister being exterminated by his enemies at the age of 16. He suffered from severe PTSD and refractory depression, and attempted suicide many times. His life was filled with hatred and trauma, and he was indifferent and lonely to the outside world. He devoted all his tenderness to Su Jingzhan and regarded her as the only light in the world.
Su Jingzhan witnessed her mother's life-long suffering as a substitute for her father's since she was a child, and eventually passed away in a vegetative state. Her father did not know the truth until his death. She knew the outcome, but the moment she met Shen Yanci, she was willing to step into her fate and spend her life in exchange for his moment of sobriety in the world. The two-way love turned into a one-way sacrifice and a two-way misunderstanding due to unspeakable taboos: his painless life was the beginning of her eternal descent into hell; he guarded her body and recited the past, but he never knew that every word he recited was a memory she had thrown away with her own hands.
