In the dazzling and bustling metropolis, a torrential downpour suddenly arrives.
In the distance, brightly lit skyscrapers and dazzling neon lights create a dazzling spectacle, while holographic images intertwine and crisscross.
This is a highly developed city with advanced technology.
On the edge of glamour, dilapidated streets are filled with sewage up to a hand's width high, exuding a damp, musty smell, and stray cats often dart by, howling in pain.
The woman was wearing a white halter-neck dress, her long hair and dress both soaked, clinging to her thin, pale body. She walked awkwardly along the chaotic, impoverished street in the pouring rain, her feet sinking into the muddy water, holding a wet old newspaper in her hand.
When they reached a dilapidated tin shack, the woman pushed open the tin door, which creaked loudly.
In the dimly lit room, there were only two dim light bulbs, an old gray-brown sofa, a coffee table, a constantly flickering television, and a boy sitting on the sofa with a calm expression.
The boy had delicate features, but he showed no emotional fluctuation whatsoever. His white casual clothes and black pants made him appear even more aloof.
Hearing the door open, the boy stood up and looked at the woman: "Miss Jiang, you shouldn't have gone out."
The sound was calm and even.
The woman picked up the soaking wet newspaper and looked at the photo of herself on it: "Who am I?"
The boy remained calm: "Miss Jiang's temperature is too high. She should take a hot bath before taking her medicine."
The woman ignored him and asked again in a hoarse voice, "Who am I?"
The boy looked at her and said, "You are Miss Jiang."
"Is that so?" the woman asked back.
The boy looked calmly at her and said again, "Miss Jiang's temperature has been detected..."
The woman interrupted him: "Then what about Lin Ran? Who is she?"
Upon hearing the name "Lin Ran," the boy's eyes showed a moment of confusion, but he quickly regained his composure: "I have already prepared hot water for Miss Jiang."
The woman stared at him silently for a few seconds, then turned and walked towards the restroom.
In an era where memories can be extracted, injected, and replaced at will, she doesn't even deserve to have her own memories.
She didn't know who she was, or even why she lived in this tin shack. She didn't know who the boy was, or even that the newspaper article said she had once had feelings for a man named Ji Wei.
The woman turned her head and looked at the newspaper that had fallen to the damp ground. After a long while, she reached out and touched the photo of the man named "Ji Wei" on the newspaper, and her heart ached.
A fragmented image flashed through my mind.
"People like you carry a virus."
"You dare to dream of taking Ranran's place?"
"Get out..."
A jumble of sounds rose and then fell.
All that remained in her mind was a man's hoarse voice, imprinted on her heart like a brand.
"You don't deserve it."
The woman quickly withdrew her hand, panting heavily. After a moment of stunned silence, she suddenly curled up in the bathtub, letting the warm water submerge her. After an unknown amount of time, she finally sat up from underwater, coughing.
She had long since had enough of living a life of mindlessness.
Glancing at the bathroom where the sharp weapon had long been put away, the woman slowly stood up, her naked body covered in glistening water droplets. She wrapped the mirror with her soaked long dress, smashed the mirror, picked up a shard, and returned to the bathtub.
Before long, the clear water in the bathtub slowly turned a reddish hue, and then gradually became misty.
Blood continued to seep from the woman's wrist.
In the bathtub, the woman's naked, pale body was completely cold...
...
Jiang Fei slowly opened her eyes.
What came into view was a futuristic pure white expanse. Jiang Fei turned his head and looked around with some curiosity. Everything around him was snow-white, but there was no feeling of ease or spaciousness. Instead, it made him feel cold and eerie.
She had just sat up when a flat, empty female voice came from above: "Detection indicates you have awakened. Please wait."
After he finished speaking, the surroundings fell silent once again.
Jiang Fei raised an eyebrow: "System, where is this?"
[System: The host is currently in the laboratory.]
"laboratory?"
[System: The storyline of this world has been transmitted to the host.]
As soon as he finished speaking, countless memories flooded Jiang Fei's mind.
This world is a futuristic world.
The city where the original owner lived was a bustling metropolis with extremely advanced technology, assets, and economy, but its civilization and culture had not kept pace with its development.
The gap between the rich and the poor is enormous, and on the edge of prosperity lies extreme chaos and filth.
Here, although AI has developed well, it is still controlled by humans, and "memory" has become a business.
The technologies for memory extraction, injection, and replacement are mature, but unpredictable vulnerabilities still exist.
However, all of these are controlled by the major conglomerates at the top of the pyramid.
The original owner was not a lucky person. On the contrary, her living environment was very tragic. Her parents died when she was young, and she wandered alone on the edge of the city. She didn't even dare to dream of a bustling metropolis.
However, on a rainy night when the original owner was twenty years old, she met Gu Xi.
—A mature and sexy man.
Gu Xi stepped out of a black car, dressed in a black suit and holding a black umbrella. He walked up to her, then tilted the umbrella to shield the original owner of the body, who was huddled in the corner, from the rain, while most of his body was soaked.
That day, when the original owner looked up, she saw a handsome man backlit, bending down and reaching out his hand to her. He rescued her from the chaos and filth and took her to the high-rise building she had once dreamed of but dared not even approach.
From that moment on, the original owner fell for Gu Xi's clear blue eyes.
However, Gu Xi was kind to the original owner only because, after AI made precise calculations on everyone in the city, the original owner's body was the most suitable for swapping memories with Lin Ran.
Lin Ran, the daughter of the Lin family, comes from a scholarly family. She was betrothed to Ji Wei, the only son of the Ji family, one of the conglomerates, since childhood. Later, through the interactions between the two families, Lin Ran and Ji Wei also developed feelings for each other.
At the same time, Lin Ran is also the woman Gu Xi has always loved deeply, but could never have.
Gu Xi has always been ruthless. He has no concept of marriage; he will do anything to get what he wants.
For example, Lin Ran.
It was also at this time that internal strife broke out within the Ji family conglomerate. Ji Wei's parents passed away one after another, Ji Wei's uncle took control of the conglomerate, and Ji Wei was framed and went blind.
Gu Xi thought Lin Ran would cancel her engagement with Ji Wei, but Lin Ran said that even if Ji Wei went blind, she would still marry him.
When external methods proved ineffective, Gu Xi turned her attention to internal solutions.
So, he found the original owner of the body and, after successfully making the original owner fall in love with him, swapped the memories of the original owner and Lin Ran.
Aside from recognizing each other's identities, their experiences were completely reversed.
Lin Ran thought she had fallen in love with Gu Xi at first sight.
The original owner thought that the person she loved was Ji Wei.
Gu Xi sent the original owner to Ji Wei, who was blind, while keeping Lin Ran behind herself.
Because of the memory swap, even though Ji Wei was eccentric, temperamental, and treated the original owner very badly, the original owner never abandoned Ji Wei, who was blind, and stayed by his side from a luxurious hospital to a dilapidated iron house on the edge of the city, from when he was covered in wounds to when his eyes could gradually feel some light.
At the same time, Gu Xi discovered that even with the memory swapped, Lin Ran's personality could not be completely changed. Fearing that something might go wrong, he sent an AI named Lin Jiu to the original owner's side, ostensibly to take care of her, but in reality to monitor her. If there were any errors in the two people's memories, he would directly destroy the original owner's memories.
Lin Jiu is the ninth-generation AI of the Gu Group. He was named "Lin Jiu" because Gu Xi liked Lin Ran.
Originally, Lin Jiu was by Gu Xi's side, responsible for taking care of Lin Ran. The reason Gu Xi sent her to monitor the original owner was because Gu Xi discovered that Lin Jiu had developed feelings for Lin Ran beyond what was instructed.
AI has three main principles:
Human beings must not be harmed;
You must obey human commands, unless such command contradicts the first command;
Protect yourself, unless this contradicts the two points mentioned above.
When Lin Ran went to a dilapidated street on the edge of the city out of curiosity and was harassed by several thugs, Lin Jiu directly attacked and caused permanent damage to the thugs.
When the staff checked Lin Jiu's data, the AI, which originally had no emotional fluctuations, showed subtle fluctuations in its data when protecting Lin Ran.
Gu Xi knew better than anyone that, besides data, emotions were also a powerful force in the world to inspire loyalty.
Lin Jiu has both.
Therefore, he sent Lin Jiu to monitor the original owner, and only Lin Jiu could harm the original owner for Lin Ran's sake.
The original owner was unaware of all this, and even thought that Lin Jiu was a pitiful ordinary human. She still believed that the person she loved was Ji Wei, and always took care of him.
One day, Ji Wei was able to see, and the original owner was very happy.
But the original owner did not expect that he would disappear on the second day after Ji Wei could see him.
Ji Wei could not forget the hatred for her parents' deaths, and she did everything she could to reclaim the Ji family.
Even after he returned to the top of the pyramid, Ji Wei was always concerned about his engagement with Lin Ran. Even when the original owner found him, he only gave her a sum of money and told her that she was "unworthy".
The original owner was greatly shocked, and her memories began to surface faintly in her mind. Because of the invisible bond formed between her memories and Lin Ran's memories, Lin Ran's memories also began to become disordered.
Lin Jiu received the instruction to completely erase the original owner's memories.
At this point, the original owner became someone who didn't even know who he was, living in a dark and damp iron house, spending his days in fear and anxiety.
Gu Xi would never allow the AI that had developed feelings for Lin Ran to return to Lin Ran's side, so she banished Lin Jiu.
In the end, however, Lin Ran regained her lost memories, left Gu Xi, and chose Ji Wei.
It wasn't until the original owner discovered the news of Lin Ran and Ji Wei's engagement in the newspaper, along with a photo of her taking care of the blind Ji Wei, that the original owner was completely confused about her identity. In the end, the original owner recovered her most painful memories, and in utter despair at her current state as a walking corpse, she chose to end her life.
After receiving the memories, Jiang Fei couldn't help but rub her temples.
In this strange world, because conglomerates control the rules of operation, the law becomes mere decoration, and everyone's evil is unleashed without restraint.
What good is having the most advanced technology? It's used to harm people.
Jiang Fei gave a sarcastic laugh.
And now, it is after Gu Xi has completed the memory swap for her and Lin Ran.
In other words, she was about to be sent to Ji Wei, who was blind.
As Jiang Fei was pondering, the door on the snow-white wall slowly opened, and a woman wearing a white sterile suit walked in. After nodding to Jiang Fei in greeting, she went to the instrument next to her and operated something.
After finishing her work, the woman approached Jiang Fei and said, "Miss Jiang, there's nothing wrong with your body. I have two questions for you. If you have no questions, you can leave immediately."
Jiang Fei hesitated for a moment, then nodded.
"Do you remember Mr. Gu Xi?" The woman's tone was businesslike, without the slightest emotional fluctuation.
Jiang Fei hesitated for half a second. According to Lin Ran's memory, she knew Gu Xi, but she had no feelings for him and was even somewhat afraid of him.
A hint of fear appeared in her eyes, and she nodded slightly.
“Okay,” the woman asked again, “when did you and Mr. Ji Wei meet?”
Jiang Fei's eyes lit up, and she moved her lips: "When I was ten years old."
The woman nodded in satisfaction: "Are you going back to Mr. Ji Wei's side?"
Jiang Fei nodded again.
The woman put away the documents in her hand, told her "Wait a moment, someone will take you there," and then got up and left.
Jiang Fei remained seated.
This world looks like it's really fun.
"System, who is the target?"
[Ji Wei: Bounty: 6 million spirit coins; Current favorability: 0.]
[Lin Jiu: Bounty: 6 million spirit coins; Current favorability: 0.]
[Gu Xi: Bounty: 7 million spirit coins; Current favorability: -5.]
Jiang Fei's eyes flickered: "So, after this world ends, I can be resurrected?"
[System: Yes, host.]
“It’s so good,” Jiang Fei murmured, her eyes slightly lowered, but she looked up again and said, “It’s so good.”
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