This article is not a typical upgrade flow. Every step of the heroine's "upgrade" comes with a moral price - the fragments are not props, but other people's memories and privacy.
Shen Yanxi, a low-level new actor, was judged to be a "disaster" by the director during her audition, and was about to be kicked out of the industry. In despair, the "Memory Repair System" is bound and a novice mission is issued: contact Lu Huaijin, the three-time best actor, and collect golden memory fragments. If it fails, the system shuts down and she returns to the "wood" origin.
In a desperate move, she spilled a cup of coffee on him in the parking lot. Taking the pieces into her hands, she saw the cracked slits in those frozen eyes - that was not indifference, but loneliness.
The agent warned her to stay away from Lu Huaijin: his team was merciless in banning people. But Shen Yanxi clutched the fragments and said "I don't want to disappear" for the first time.
The system forced her to use his emotions in exchange for acting skills, but hidden in the fragments was the loneliness of playing the piano in an empty concert hall and the loneliness of having the trophy upside down late at night. She thought she was completing her mission, but she was actually seeing his scars again and again.
When the system issued a mandatory mission - to collect the black traumatic memory of his mother's death at the age of fourteen - she stood on the edge of the cliff between "complete the mission" and "protect him", and finally discovered that the real purpose of the system was never to let her counterattack, but to let her use empathy to heal a person who had never been cured.
And she also found herself in the process of healing him.
Purpose: True empathy is not about reading other people's emotions in exchange for one's own interests, but about seeing other people's scars and choosing not to tear them open.