In a world where emotions can be precisely controlled, Lu Xun and Lin tide are the most "unqualified" students in the School of Emotions. One was diagnosed as "emotionally deficient" and the other was labeled as "emotionally overloaded". The incompatible tablemates were forced to learn to use formulas to calculate the probability of love, express joy with standard expressions, and adjust the heartbeat to an appropriate concentration.
They analyze classic romance plots, use mathematical formulas to calculate the probability of love, play music with prescribed emotional frequencies, and practice "correct" responses in the simulation cabin. Lu Xun's theory was almost perfect, but his practice was blank; Lin tide's feelings were turbulent and real, but he was always judged as "exceeding the standard" by the system. When the whole class was chasing perfect data, only they discovered the resonance between each other that could not be calculated.
In the most important emotional assessment test, facing the ultimate simulation scenario, they handed over an answer that made the system crash - there was no optimal solution in it, only the reality of choosing despite knowing it was not standard. As the cold algorithm attempts to erase the last remaining uncertainties, a pair of the worst students decide to defect for the "wrong" emotions.
Welcome to the School of Love. Here you will learn everything about love, except love itself. And they will get back that forbidden heartbeat.
Concept: "Emotional Academy" explores the eternal tension between "real human nature" and "social optimization" through a future world where emotions are scientificized and standardized. The core of the work is to ask, when we use rational tools to analyze, manage and even transform emotions, are we liberating human nature, or are we stripping away the most vivid and precious parts of human nature?