There’s a Well in the Palm of Her Hand

An Lin was born with extra lines on her palm. They were cinnabar-red, and they grew hot.

By day, she was an HR worker at Yikang. By night, she was an off-the-books "Fixation-Breaking Field Agent" no one knew about. She entered illusions born of obsessions and pulled out those who refused to leave.

Outsiders thought she was saving people. Only Yikang's higher-ups knew the truth: every time she broke an obsession, she fed a batch of emotional data into the well below.

Until she spread open her own palm. At the end of its twelve lines lay a well, and she was falling into it too.