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Throughout the ages, she is probably the first marriage princess who came to get married but was turned away! The sunshine in March is as soft and warm as spring water. It shines through the window curtains of the gorgeous carriage and shines on the woman in a bright red wedding dress. There is a thin layer of warm yellow halo, hazy and indescribable beauty. This woman is Manyao, the eldest princess of Qiyun Kingdom, Rong Le, who came to get married but was rejected. After a month of long journey, she felt that her body bones were about to fall apart. She couldn't help but lie lazily on the soft couch covered with brocade quilts, taking a nap, listening to the noise and commotion coming from outside the carriage, and frowning slightly...

The story is set in the near future, where environmental pollution and other disasters have transformed cities beyond recognition. PKD once coined a word "kipi", which was used by the author in this article and gave it a broader meaning. The entire society is a garbage society. The protagonist Peter is a teenager who specializes in picking up garbage and selling it to recyclers. Half of his limbs are prosthetic bodies. He lives with his mother and brother. His brother Charlie is the leader of the "Dead Bones", an anti-Kippi organization. One day, Charlie attacked the goddess "Alba" he had always admired. They tore Alba into pieces. From then on, Peter was obsessed with piecing "Alba" together. The original novel "Livido" is written in Italian. According to the author, the original title means "pale, blue-gray", and "The Successor" is its English title. There is an impressive passage in the article that may explain the idea of ​​the article: "They are not of the same species as us. Like the sarcophagi and totems of the past, those ancient vessels that carried souls into the afterlife, successors carry our souls into the future. I see in them a similar attempt to inscribe ourselves in the continuity of eternity. They are a symbol of our desire for eternity."