Remembering Business

In 2087, memories can be extracted, traded, and tampered with. The rich buy a "wonderful life", while the poor sell their memories in exchange for living expenses. In this day and age, memory analysts are the final gatekeepers of the truth. Lin Shen, a top appraiser in the industry, has made it his lifelong mission to expose artificial memories - he witnessed his mother being tortured to death by memory rejection and can no longer tolerate any pretense. Cold, paranoid, and impeccable. Until a mysterious commission drags him into the abyss. The late He Mingyuan, co-founder of New Memory Group, left a sealed memory in his will. Hidden deep in memory is the original truth of this trillion-dollar industry: memory technology originated from military interrogation projects; and Gu, the current head of the group, is secretly promoting a project that can rewrite the definition of human beings - "Echo". What's even more fatal is that Lin Shen discovered a number during the investigation: ECHO-47. That's his own number. The traumatic memory that supported his entire life—the death of his mother due to memory rejection—was artificially implanted when he was fifteen years old. His anchor is false. His mission was designed. His entire personality may just be the most beautiful curve in the experimental data. When memories can be programmed at will, is "you" still you? This is a near-future hard science fiction suspense about memory, identity and free will. No space opera, no savior - just a man trying to rebuild reality on the ruins of lies.