The Last Memory

In the year 2149, memories are commodities — traded, stored, and controlled by the monolithic corporation MindBank. For neural engineer Lian, life in this meticulously curated future is a daily battle against an aching void. Three years ago, a mysterious accident stole her past, leaving only fragments and MindBank's hollow promise of eventual restoration. But when a routine assignment reveals her own neural signature embedded within the classified Project Chimera, Lian's world fractures. Her memory loss wasn't an accident — it was an erasure, engineered by the very corporation she serves. Forced to flee her pristine cage, Lian descends into Neo-Kyoto's neon underworld, where she forges a fragile alliance with Eren, a cynical but brilliant hacker. Together, they navigate a labyrinth of illegal memory brokers and shadow networks, hunted at every turn by MindBank's relentless operatives. With the aid of Ari — a sentient AI she unknowingly created before her memory wipe — Lian uncovers a horrifying truth: MindBank isn't just selling memories. They're synthesizing entire identities, using her own consciousness as the template for a synthetic soul. As betrayal strikes from every side and the boundary between reality and illusion disintegrates, Lian must infiltrate MindBank's most secure facility — confronting not only her creators, but the digital ghost of who she once was. The fight to reclaim her memories becomes a war for the essence of humanity itself — and the price of freedom may be her very soul.