Lin Mo, a 26-year-old archivist, is born with a lack of empathy and moral pain, and has no regard for the so-called malice and killing in the world. In order to allow him to safely integrate into society, his parents, who have extremely "normal" outlook, spent more than twenty years using morals and rules to create a perfect "good guy program" for him, cooling him down to absolute zero.
Lin Mo thought he would always operate as a sophisticated machine, until a sudden violent incident allowed him to accurately stop the gangster, which also aroused the suspicion of his friend Su Qing. While investigating a case of missing orphans in a welfare home thirty years ago, Lin Mo tried for the first time to leave a "human" compassion in the cracks of rationality through cold data deduction. As Su Qing saw through his disguise step by step and stood firmly by his side, the ice in Lin Mo's heart began to melt.
When a sudden car accident pushed Su Qing to the edge of life and death, Lin Mo's "absolute rationality" completely collapsed. In the extreme panic and pain, he finally understood: true kindness and bravery are not as precise as a machine without emotions, but still choosing to protect after feeling fear and pain. The novel profoundly deconstructs "banal evil" and "banal good" and tells how a soul born with a disability finds the weight of a mortal in the abyss, and finally learns to embrace the world in his own way.
Intention: Deconstructing "Mediocre Goodness" and Reshaping "Mortal Weight"