My father fell into the sea and died, and his last words were hidden in half a page of the burned diary;
Above the mourning hall, a strange woman held a DNA report and claimed to be his half-sister.
Shen Yi rushed back to Linjiang from Cambridge to attend the funeral, but he fell into an elaborate memory puzzle.
The black box of the yacht disappeared, the study was attacked late at night, and the bodyguards pointed guns at each other - all the evidence pointed to a secret experiment codenamed "Jingyuan".
What Lin Wan brought was not only the USB flash drive left by her mother, but also a piece of truth that had been erased by drugs:
Nineteen years ago, his mother did not die in a car accident, but was injected with "Lethe River" and fell into suspended animation;
His and Lin Wan's fate may have been intertwined as early as in the "Jingyuan Nursery".
When memories can be tampered with and identities can be forged, only the records remaining in the ashes can reveal the truth.
They must rewrite their own "Memories" before being "recycled".
Some truths are worth remembering with your life;
Some ashes are destined to burn into fire.
Intent: In an era where memories can be tampered with and identities can be forged, people's persistence in truth does not lie in what they remember, but in daring to record, dare to believe, and dare to rewrite their own stories in the ashes. The novel uses "memory manipulation" as an incision to explore the deepest fear of contemporary people - "Am I still me?" Through the fateful entanglement of Shen Yi and Lin Wan, the "mirror twins", it reveals: how power controls individuals by erasing memories; how trauma can be transmitted across generations but can also be healed; and the real redemption is not to find the "original self", but to write one's own "Memories of Ashes" on the ruins.