When the body can be customized at will and the memory can be deleted at will, is the reflection in the mirror still considered "you"?
In the future world, the "customization era" is coming. Humans can change limbs, edit emotions, and even reshape personality just like changing clothes. "Bianan" company leads the trend and promises to use technology to polish the perfect body and life.
Psychologist Lin Yan is good at dealing with psychological crises after "customization". He is calm, professional and an anchor to chaotic consciousness. Until he took over the strange case of top artist Chen Qiming - this reconstructed body who constantly "upgraded" himself suddenly collapsed at the peak of perfection, and actually screamed at himself in the mirror: "Who is that?"
Chen Qiming is not an exception. In the city, more and more "optimized people" are beginning to experience "mirror eclipses": customized bodies malfunction inexplicably, deleted memories emerge like ghosts, and stable emotions collapse for no apparent reason. It seems that under the "new self" they carefully built, the stripped and forgotten "old self" is crawling back from the abyss of consciousness, launching a silent and brutal revenge.
And Lin Yan himself is not just a bystander. An old wound in the tiger's mouth of his left hand always hurts when patients with "mirror erosion" get sick. A fragment of a neural interface with a mysterious origin and a strand of sealed hair connect him to a taboo experiment that has been covered up for ten years. He gradually discovered that he could not only "treat" mirror eclipse, but also "perceive" it - the patients' pain, memories, and even the roaring ghosts deep in their consciousness were pouring into his perception along some invisible channel.
Commissioned by "The Other Side" to investigate, warned by the underground organization "Primitive Fire", and chased by his own hallucinations and old memories, Lin Yan was forced to embark on a path of exploration. He needs to uncover the truth about "Mirror Erosion": Is this a technical defect, human nature's instinctive resistance to powerful transformation, or is it a glimpse of a larger, colder plan beneath the shiny surface of the "other side"?
In his pursuit, he must face his deepest fear: when everyone is keen on modifying the reflection in the mirror, how much is the original "self" holding the mirror worth? And he himself, this doctor who wanders on the edge of the patient's consciousness, this "resonance body" entangled with old experiments, in this identity crisis sweeping the world, is he a savior, a victim, or... A key to opening his own eyes?
"Mirror Eclipse" - a hard-core psychological science fiction about identity, memory and technological ethics. When transformation becomes belief and perfection becomes a shackle, how can we identify the only real, scarred "I" between the smooth mirror and the broken reflection?
Concept: A hard-core psychological science fiction about identity, memory and technological ethics. When transformation becomes belief and perfection becomes a shackle, how can we identify the only real, scarred "I" between the smooth mirror and the broken reflection?