Shen Shi is a subway maintenance worker who keeps the tunnels company from midnight to four in the morning. He discovers that the tunnels are his mother’s body, and that he himself is a “photo album”: after touching someone with an ability for three seconds, he can “imprint” their aspect.
One hundred aspects, one hundred emotions, one hundred original infected. The “Rust” aspect calcifies my bones; the “Fall” aspect makes me forget which way is up; the “Word” aspect makes me say things I can never take back. My sister suffers in my place, my father hides the truth, and the saintess’s love is nothing but predation.
When all one hundred aspects are filled, the 101st page opens. It isn’t omnipotence, but “No Aspect.” I must become the translator of one hundred emotions, at the cost of no one remembering that I exist.
Not even me.
