In the sour smell of the garbage mountain, Xinyi glued a waste paper shell to a guitar. The moment the blond guitarist strummed the strings on the TV, she thought she had caught the light - until her father smashed the pile of waste paper with his fist and scolded her, "How can you be a singer if you don't have enough to eat?"
"Go and participate, and dad will buy you a guitar." When the father's promise was mixed with the mother's smile, the white coat outside the door was already waiting. She didn't see the bustling scene in the center of Utopia, she only heard the hum of the chip embedded in her skull. From then on, she was C-036, with no name and only a stylized smile.
Until PD1's audition stage pierced the falsehood: she changed her name to NoVA and stood in the spotlight holding a real acoustic guitar. Faced with the question "What is the meaning of practice" on the whiteboard, she wrote "realize your dream", but watched helplessly as the shadow of capital swallowed up her companion's name.
The hidden seniors, the struggling trainees, and she, the only one with a chip scar... They collided on the stage, like rising stars trying to break through the night sky.
When the mechanical female voice reported "92% effective progress", she hummed in the cold light of the syringe——
"The burning moments add up to a big thing and can always illuminate the cracks in the world."
Intention: Use music as a blade to break through all the shackles; find the true self among the thorns.
