[Two male protagonists/sci-fi redemption/memory ethics]
When the blue rose grows in reverse direction on the moonlit night, we meet again in the ashes of memory.
Botanical genius Lin Shen holds the seed of immortality in his left hand, and a burn from twelve years ago rests on his right shoulder. Gu Mingcheng, an upstart businessman, wears a clone suppression ring in his left ear, but a password written together in his childhood leaks out from between the fingers of his right hand. The fire of tampered memories forged the two teenagers into genetic chains that were missing from each other.
Today, photosynthetic traps lurk under the neon lights of smart cities, and withered sycamore seeds sprout in their veins. When Gu Mingcheng's clones spread all over the streets, and when Lin Shen's tears began to secrete the antidote, they discovered that the so-called two-way redemption was just a genetic scam that had been delayed for twenty years.
"Can you tell whether the person you are hugging is the real person or the mirror image of your memory?"
"When your years begin to turn back, my scars will become the hands of the hour."
In this steel jungle where blue roses are used to weave a black market of memory, a pair of ghosts who had died in the orphanage fire long ago are stealing God's genetic scissors. What they want to cut is not only Gu Lan's immortality code, but also all the cloned rainy nights, the trafficked heartbeats, and the first hand holding diluted by photosynthesis.
The crown of thorns will wither, but the nursery rhymes in the sandpit will always be fresh.
Intention: Study hard and make progress every day