The Memory Cafeteria: My Nemesis and I Share a Stomach

Other people open shops to make money. Chen Shi opens a shop that could cost him his life.

That’s because he doesn’t sell food. He sells memories. Swallow a boxing champion’s memories, and you become a street-fighting king. Swallow a top student’s memories, and knowledge pours straight into your brain.

Then, one rainy night, a woman drenched from head to toe bursts into his shop and shouts, “Don’t touch that pot of soup!”

Too late.

A forbidden memory enters his body, forcibly binding their stomachs together. Every memory he eats, she gets too; every scene she sees, he experiences firsthand. She hates that he smokes, he hates that she eats spicy food, and they can even taste what the other had for their last meal.

Chen Shi: “So from now on, I have to get your approval before I eat anything?”

Su Zhiwei: “You don’t have to. We’ll just both get indigestion and turn into empty shells.”

But sharing a stomach has its perks: the memory dishes he makes grant them both the same skills. Fighting, medicine, music, finance... They can learn in one meal what takes others ten years of practice.

One is trying to uncover the truth behind her grandfather becoming an empty shell. The other wants to clear his imprisoned father’s name. And deep within that forbidden memory lies a secret powerful enough to overturn the entire world.

At the city competition, everyone laughs at the owner of this little street-side shop. Until he serves a dish that turns the judges’ faces deathly pale.

What they don’t know is that the world’s largest memory organization, “Memory Abyss,” has been waiting for them for a hundred years.