Perfect Oblivion

In 2045, a technology called "Memory Loom" became popular all over the world - it can safely and painlessly delete any painful memories. The crime rate dropped to zero, depression disappeared, and mankind ushered in the longest peace in history. The price is: everyone forgets why it hurts and what it feels like to love someone in the first place. Lin Shen is a neuroscience researcher who discovered that deleted memories have not disappeared, but are stored in the underground database of the "Anshen" organization and can be re-implanted at any time - even into other people's brains. What's even more frightening is that "Anshen" plans to perform a globally synchronized "deep edit" on the winter solstice: permanently deleting human free will. Lin Shen's fiancée Chen Man has undergone memory editing. She does not remember any quarrels between them, nor any reconciliation. She only remembers him as a "fact", not a "lover". Tomorrow, she will walk into the newsroom completely transformed into a person who will never be miserable—and will never be truly happy. There was only one night left for Lin Shen. "Perfect Oblivion" is a near-future science fiction novel that explores a heart-wrenching question: If you can gain happiness by forgetting pain, are you willing to pay the real price? When the entire society chooses to forget, who will remember those things that should not be forgotten? ——The memory will not disappear, it just changes its owner.