In Suzhou in 1927, taxidermist Shen Ji found a child who could "smell and see memories" in a mass grave, and was involved in the "Blood Pearl" conspiracy of the Japanese Black Dragon Society - a terrifying technology that can forcibly implant memories and turn people into "memory zombies". In the basement of Shen's Hall, his father used "pearls" to preserve fourteen human body specimens, including his mother who had been "dead" for fifteen years. After seven days the pearl will lose its effectiveness and everything will rot into poison.
The silent mirror image "Ji Bai" waited in the basement for fifteen years, and finally chose to burn itself to become a "mirror mirror", using life to interpret "Ji Bai is left blank, waiting to be written": To truly live is to choose to be a flawed "person" rather than a perfect "specimen". From the troubled times of the Republic of China in 1927 to the era of brain-computer interface in 2077, three generations fought desperately around "how memory should exist." When immortality becomes a replicable commodity, the "mobile" rebels choose to delete backups and embrace forgetfulness - in an era when memories can last forever, death is the final freedom.
Intent: In a technological age where memories can be preserved, copied, and immortalized, the true dignity of life lies in choosing "flow" rather than "solidification," choosing "forgetting" rather than "immortality," and choosing to be a flawed "person" rather than a perfect "specimen." Through the fate of three generations, the work explores the ultimate proposition of technological ethics: When humans can get rid of death and forgetfulness, are we still willing to bear the limitations of life? The answer lies in the motto that runs throughout the text - "It is left blank, ready for writing."
