About Something That Cannot Be Inherited

Some things will be preserved, recorded, and transferred from generation to generation and become part of the system; while some things can only stay in people's bodies and memories and cannot be inherited by anyone. On the edge of the empire, a noble boy listened to the debate on the legitimacy of war in class, and realized for the first time: everyone can be persuaded, but no one can really be saved. At the same time, a girl who grew up in the city gradually discovered the gap between "being adopted" and "belonging" after being brought into another life. When a kidnapping and an interrogation briefly connect people from different walks of life on the same thread, the pasts they each carry - family, education, violence and silence - begin to reveal irreconcilable weight. This is a novel about inheritance: about how names, lineage and power are passed on; about how pain, shame and choice cannot be passed on.