Xu Nian committed the lightest crime - eating other people's emotions and remembering those who were swallowed by the system.
Three thousand five hundred and twenty-one years in the Gregorian calendar, Licheng.
Xu Nian has no household registration and no past. She lives by devouring other people's emotions - joy, sadness, anger, and unwillingness are all her food.
On the day an unknown corpse floated in Mirror Lake, she was captured for taking away the mixed emotions left over from the murder. There are two paths in front of him: the asylum in District 9, or a contract to become the specialist of the emotional conditioning center.
She signed it.
Legal status, warm residence, stable meals - Xu Nian began to integrate into the large and regular system of Licheng. She had a place to live, a job, a daily routine, and even started to meet new friends. But she slowly discovered that the emotions she had eaten had not disappeared—they were still alive in her body.
Countless people who were homeless and swallowed up by the system, their fragmentary memories resided in her bones and blood, waiting to be remembered by her.
She never wanted to get involved in disputes, and at first she just wanted to live an ordinary life in peace. But standing within the system, she gradually saw how it worked: beneath the bright surface of festivals, celebrations, and order, it silently swallowed up those without identity and invisible people, never to return them.
The only thing she can do is remember those who were swallowed.
She committed the smallest crime just to remember everything.
Food guide:
. 1V1, but feelings are not the main line. The heroine Xu Nian is an "inhuman" and an outsider in the city. She is learning how to "be a human being" and how to integrate into Licheng.
. A slow-burning group portrait, not a cool article. Everyone in the story has their own life, not just for the protagonist.
. The heroine will grow, but she will not become stronger overnight. What she has gained is her understanding of people, not numerical values.
. The emotional line is light and slow, suitable for readers who like to "not tell the truth". Different people have completely different feelings about the same thing.
. If you prefer "remember" to "burn", then we might be compatible.
Intention: People who are swallowed up by the system will not disappear silently, there will always be someone who will remember them.
