Memory Fragments: the Unpruned Me

In 2145, artificial ginkgo fragrance floats among the suspended buildings in New Shanghai City, and Qingyi Group's advertisements play on a loop: "Formatting pain, implanting perfect memories." Here, everyone is implanted with a neurosymbiosis chip at birth, and "memory pruning" has become the norm to heal pain, while the "native memory users" who have never been transformed have become endangered "living codes." In the clinic of memory archaeologist Azhe, there are 16 "memory entities" hidden - old toys of people who have been formatted, and old photos of people with fake memories. It wasn't until he was repairing Su Lan's memory that he accidentally dug out a materialized ginkgo leaf: the voice of a six-year-old girl, Xiao Yu, penetrated the encryption layer, "Mom, find Lin Xia, she can open all locks." Lin Xia still doesn't know that he is the last native memory bearer. She was editing "empathy copywriting" in an old office building on the 23rd floor. She was overwhelmed by workplace PUAs and broken relationships. The Qingmei advertisement on her phone was bright and dim. She hesitated whether to delete the pain, but she didn't realize that the light green birthmark on her palm was the mark of a native memory person. When Qingyi's memory patrol plane began to search for "natives", and when Su Lan fell into coma due to the memory lock, Azhe took the ginkgo leaves to find Lin Xia: her brain contained a code that could awaken millions of people whose memories had been tampered with. There is no rain of bullets in this war, only stolen names, concerns hidden in ginkgo leaves, and a group of people's obsession with the "true self" - after all, memories without pain are blank shells, and unpruned scars are the mark that proves "I am me".