In 2034, Lin Moyu, a computer science student at Dongyang University of Technology, was framed and secretly photographed for bending down to pick up the keys for female passenger Liu Yu on the subway. Although police technical testing proved that there were no traces of secret photography on his mobile phone, the incident still fermented into a storm of gender opposition that swept the entire Internet. Liu Yu edited the video and posted it on Weibo, and her boyfriend used the Ping An University student union account to build momentum. Public opinion quickly evolved into a nationwide trial against Lin Moyu - his home address was doxxed, his mother was harassed and caused a heart attack, and her campus life was completely destroyed.
Lin Moyu was forced to survive in the cracks between technical means and public opinion manipulation: restoring subway surveillance to reveal the truth about the key's fall, tracking the characteristics of anonymous account clusters, and fighting against forged depression diagnoses and academic stains. However, the cost of the truth is far greater than imagined. Lin Moyu was forced to suspend school, the police report was selectively ignored, and marketing accounts and extreme remarks distorted the incident into a symbol of gender war.
Purpose: "Self-Proof" is a realist novel that focuses on online violence and gender opposition. It tells the story of college student Lin Moyu who was falsely accused of secretly photographing someone for picking up keys on the subway. After police technology proved his innocence, he was still caught in a storm of public opinion and was forced to use technical means to fight against systemic violence, traffic manipulation and group irrationality.