Su Qinglan felt the stabbing pain in her head intensify. She looked at the options.
The "Neural Synthesizer" would make her forget and sleep, but she would stay in the dark.
The "Memory Unlock" would tell her the truth about why she felt so much pain seeing her mother.
"Second life..." she whispered in her mind. "Xuyu has been hiding my past life from me. He was afraid of me knowing."
The faces of her husbands appeared in her mind... She couldn't live a lie anymore. She needed to know who she really was.
With a mental surge of determination, she ignored the warning about trauma. She reached out with her mind and clicked the first box.
[COMMAND RECEIVED: INITIATING MEMORY RESTORATION]
[DECRYPTING DATA... 1%... 5%... 20%...]
[WARNING: BRACE FOR IMPACT]
Su Qinglan's body on the grass gave one final, violent shudder. Then, she plummeted into a dark tunnel of light and sound, heading toward a past she had once been forced to forget.
