Test Subject in Another World

Zhao Ling had lost his memory.

He woke up in a cave. The air was thick with the smell of blood, which came from a pool of it beside him.

All he had with him was a notebook. Two hints were written inside in elegant, delicate handwriting:

1. It has been 20 years since the apocalypse. You are a three-element esper. Keep your identity hidden.

2. The past is past. Don't try to remember anything about it.

For some reason, Zhao Ling's heart ached when he saw the handwriting.

He had a gut feeling that he had to recover his memories, and that the key to doing so was the person who'd written those words.

*

Zhao Ling searched for his memories step by step, eventually making his way to Yanxia City.

Based on clues he'd found along the way, he guessed he had a wife or fiancée.

His immortal body also led him to discover that he was an experimental subject wanted by the base.

Still unable to recover his memories,

he finally saw a faded, torn wedding photo in a photo studio.

At last, he remembered that the person he'd been searching for was never his memory. It was the person in those memories, who was already dead.

Note: The story is not set in a socialist country. The setting is entirely fictional.

It takes place in the future. Do not connect it to reality.

There are no real-world allegories. Everything is for the sake of the story.

One-on-one romance. The male lead loves only the female lead.

Upcoming story: Transmigrated as the Apocalypse Big Boss's Evil Cousin

Blurb: Before bed, Ying Jiao opened Green River and read an angsty apocalypse novel.

The second male lead, Shen Qi, was horribly twisted. His constant troublemaking drove the male and female leads, a pair of ill-fated lovers, to a bad ending.

Ying Jiao had seen such a beautiful romance ruined by that green-tea, evil second male lead!

Furious, she gave the story a one-star rating. "Is the author sick? Why feed us this crap at the end? How did they come up with such a disgusting creature as the second male lead?"

Ying Jiao went to sleep in tears, feeling herself jostled and pulled around...

When she opened her eyes again, Ying Jiao found a bloodstained whip in her hand.

The cool, distant seventeen-year-old boy before her was covered in wounds, his clothes torn to shreds from the whipping.

"Sis, I did nothing wrong." Shen Qi looked up at her coldly and calmly protested.

Only then did Ying Jiao realize she'd transmigrated into the angsty apocalypse novel and become the evil cousin of Shen Qi, the second male lead.

*

Shen Qi had just learned that a chip had been implanted in his body when he was a child, and that he was going to become an emotionless AI.

The moment he developed feelings and his emotions fluctuated, the evil EAG Organization would discover him.

It turned out that Ying Jiao, the cousin who'd always abused him, had once been an observer for the EAG Organization. Back then, she couldn't bear to watch Shen Qi have his emotional nerves removed and become a tool for the organization to commit evil.

Ying Jiao fled with Shen Qi.

To prevent Shen Qi from developing any emotions, Ying Jiao resorted to the clumsiest, most extreme methods.

In the end, the chip in Shen Qi's brain was removed.

Ying Jiao, who had betrayed the EAG Organization, was also severely punished by the organization that very day, blown to pieces until not a trace remained...

And so Shen Qi still followed the same path of corruption and madness as in the original story.

Completed Republican-era historical fantasy: Water Lantern

Theme: A love that endures through hardship will last forever