Nearly ten thousand years later, humans have achieved immortality. DNA modification, artificial organs, and intelligent monitoring keep the body young forever. The smart network and the consciousness chip coexist, and resources are unlimited. Death is just a choice that can be revoked at any time. In this world where there is no pressure and everything exists for experience, the 9,700-year-old Ning feels a boredom deep in her bones - she longs for irreversible reality.
She found the equally ancient Yuan, and the two decided to do something that no one had done in the past ten thousand years: give birth to a child in the most primitive way, without connecting to the intelligent network, without genetic optimization, and let her grow naturally as a mortal. Daughter hope was born and became the only "unconnected person" in the world.
When hope learned to cry, age and lose in her limited life, and when she finally chose not to connect to eternal life, Ning finally understood that true eternity does not lie in infinite continuation, but in those irrevocable choices, unrepeatable moments, and the courage to love even though you know you will lose it. This is a story about the finite and the infinite, the real and the simulated, and the oldest price of parenthood.
Concept: Finiteness gives weight to life, and irreversible choices are the real eternity.