While checking the payroll, Lin Xu discovered that the company had paid 4,860 yuan to someone with no name.
There was no record of him in the personnel files, and none of Lin Xu's colleagues knew him. But in the warehouse stood a freight elevator he had repaired, and the cafeteria set aside an extra meal every day.
Following these traces, Lin Xu found a receipt slip with only half of it left. On the back, in his younger sister's handwriting, were the words: Brother, if you forget me too, don't trust your own memories just yet.
This city periodically deletes certain people. Their names, records, and the memories of friends and family disappear in turn, until finally the people themselves are removed.
Lin Xu can make a piece of evidence last another twenty-four hours, but the price is surrendering one of his own precious memories.
Starting with helping a stranger reclaim his wages, he pursues the past the entire city refuses to acknowledge.
And on the next deletion list, his own name is written.
