Youth Accompanied by Monsters

Yi Xia lived in a small rented house in an urban village with his divorced mother since he was a child. His mother worked day and night. When he was six years old, due to loneliness and fear, he "raised" a shadow giant in his mind, which he affectionately called "the monster". The shadow accompanies him in his homework, chases away bad kids, and stays by his bed all night when he has a fever. As he enters high school, enters college, and expands his social circle, the monster's image gradually fades away as a faded ink stain. He studied neuroscience in college and participated in the "memory retrieval" project, but he could never remember any of his neighbors or playmates before he was six years old. At the age of twenty-three, he met the cheerful illustrator Lin Zhiwei and tasted the warmth of being firmly chosen for the first time, but he didn't know that he was just a clown in this love. Not long after falling in love, the dark shadow suddenly reappeared, but took the form of a human: tall and handsome, with gloomy eyes, calling himself "Chen Yu", who could leave an image on the surveillance camera and strangle his wrist in reality. Yi Xia was tortured by hallucinations and aphasia, and suspected that he was schizophrenic. In a late-night car accident in the laboratory building, he suffered a head injury and was sent to the "Quantum Brain Mapping Chamber" of the hospital affiliated to his alma mater for emergency treatment. The real memories sealed in his sleep finally came up: when he was six years old, Chen Yu, a 14-year-old boy next door, was hit by a truck and turned into a vegetative state while trying to pull him back to the middle of the road. The car that caused the accident belonged to an illegal experimental institution, and Chen Yu's fragments of consciousness that had not yet dissipated were implanted on the spot through "neural resonance" into Yixian's brain, which is the most recent and has extremely high brain plasticity. At a young age, he could not bear the cruel scenes, and his brain automatically blocked the source event, but he molded Chen Yu's afterimage into a "monster" to accompany him. Intention: true love