This Life Is True

In 2077, AI can perfectly copy the voice of the deceased, and memories can be uploaded, tampered with, and even bought and sold. Young Lu Chen first encountered the edge of reality after his father turned off his grandmother's AI voice - that voice was gentle and precise, but wrong in one detail. My father cried for a long time. At that time, Lu Chen didn't understand why a mistake made people cry more than a right one. In the next hundred years, he went from the rooftop farm of Hangzhou Vertical City to the depths of the black box of the Memory Cloud Company; from entangled with the digital twin "Chen" to working side by side with reporter Ye Xin to uncover the truth about memory tampering. He witnessed his mother having no money for medical treatment due to the drug embargo, and witnessed Ye Xin's memory being contaminated by the brain-computer interface and still saying "I am real enough." The memory oligarchy controls the boundaries between life and death. And he only does one thing in his life: in an era when technology can copy everything, protect those parts that are irreplaceable and will eventually disappear, but have truly lived. This is not a story about a hero saving the world. This is an ordinary person who spent a hundred years answering a question—— What is reality? As he grew older and his memories began to wander, the temperature of his granddaughter's palm gave him the final answer. The wind blows and everything grows.