In an era where emotions can be extracted, traded and appreciated, Jian Mo is the industry's top emotional quality examiner - she can taste whether a piece of "joy" is mixed with fatigue, and whether a piece of "touch" has hidden desires hidden underneath. She never accepted apprentices until Lu Buyi showed up.
Lu Buqi's talent is astonishing. He can accurately identify emotional impurities in the first practical operation. Jian Mo made an exception and accepted her, but he didn't know that this meek and humble apprentice's left earring contained real-time surveillance of the black market - she was an undercover agent who had been trained for eleven years, and her mission was to steal the fear sample in Jian Mo's hand that recorded the truth about the death of her partner.
And Jian Mo knew from the beginning that the black market would send people. She accepted Lu Buyi because she wanted to see what kind of people the black market sent this time.
The two women approach each other in temptation and disguise. When Jian Mo discovered that Lu BuCi had an "empty" emotional baseline - like a room that had not been occupied all year round - she began to suspect that this apprentice was not a bad person, but a person who was trained to be a bad person. When Lu Buyi sneaked into Jian Mo's apartment and saw the note addressed to her late partner on the bedside, she lied to the black market for the first time.
They teamed up to use "fake emotions" to deceive black market surveillance, but during the fakery, they gradually became confused: When did the trust they performed become real?
A final showdown using emotion as a weapon will expose a pricing system that has been in operation for two decades. Some things can never be priced at a price.
Idea: If emotions can be quantified and traded