Xia Xiaoman remembers everything—the blood on the pavement, the shattered glass, the whispers of a debt too large to repay—everything except how her parents truly fell to their deaths. As an investigative journalist, she infiltrates the world of Li Moting, the ruthless heir to a financial empire, armed with nothing but a recorder and her perfect memory.  

"Three therapy sessions a week," he offers, fingers steepled, his voice colder than the rain outside the window. "In exchange for your silence."  

But what begins as a calculated game of revenge spirals into something far more dangerous. He scales a crumbling factory to save her from kidnappers, his hands bleeding, yet claims it’s merely "asset protection." She discovers ledgers in his study that implicate his family in her parents’ ruin—yet finds her childhood lullaby tucked in his desk drawer, the notes still intact after twenty years.  

On the night the truth comes crashing down, he kneels in the snow, pressing a pair of worn ballet flats into her hands. "Hate me if you must," he murmurs, "but let me remember you properly this time."  

And when she plays back the tapes—the ones she swore were evidence—all she hears is the unguarded hitch of his breath when she entered the room, the quiet, damning confession: *", Xia Xiaoman you were never part of the plan."*

The projector flickered to life, displaying a yellowed medical record on the large screen.  


**Diagnosis: Post-Traumatic Emotional Dissociation (Artificially Induced)**  


**Treatment: Amygdala Suppression Surgery (Non-Essential Medical Procedure)**  


Xia Xiaoman's voice was calm and precise: "This isn't an illness, but the result of long-term systematic abuse." She pulled up another document. "According to Article 17 of the International Convention on Child Protection, coercing minors into undergoing non-therapeutic neurological procedures constitutes—"  


"Preposterous!" Li Chenzhou's lawyer slammed the table. "These so-called 'evidence' hold no legal weight!"  


Xia Xiaoman pressed the remote. The screen switched to a grainy surgical recording—a young Li Moting strapped to an operating table, while Li Chenzhou stood nearby, calmly ordering, "Begin the resection."  


"This footage was recovered from a backup hard drive in the MN-07 laboratory," she said. "And the hard drive was stored in Concrete Pillar 7 of the Bay Project warehouse—alongside the bodies of the children who failed the experiment."  


Muffled sobs rose from the public gallery.


Chapter 44 - Medical Report