Emotional Quality Inspector

In the era of emotional trading in the near future, fear and anger are clearly priced, and happiness is packaged in golden capsules. Jiang Xun is the only quality inspector in the world who can "taste" the authenticity of emotions. Until she tasted the smell of rust in a capsule of "Bliss" that was said to be of the highest purity, and felt the last hatred when she stood with a man on the edge of the rooftop. The donor was recognized as the "happiest man" - so where did his desire to die come from? She was asked to forget the blunder. But she didn't. From the glamorous emotional farm to the forgotten depths of the mine, she discovered that the filtered emotions had not disappeared—they were attached to the walls of the old factory building, seeping into the roots of the orange trees in Nanshan, waiting silently. Waiting for someone to try it. Waiting for someone to return it. A man, an axe, and a miner's lamp, heading north along the rusty railway. She gives back to those who have been forgotten what was taken away - not memory, but pain and dignity. When the whole world wears masks, true emotions become the only answer. But perhaps, everything does not need to be deliberately "returned" at all. Every seed that has been planted has taken root and sprouted, and is working hard to break out of the ground.