Broken embers

Core Introduction of "Broken Embers A desperate fable that begins with "restoration", a life torn apart by fragments of memory. Liu Xu held tightly the old-fashioned mechanical watch left by her father, which was her last shield against the world. However, her boyfriend Su Qing's accidental fall and her best friend Xiao Ran's unintentional leak of secrets caused her fragile defense to collapse with a thunderous crash. When the mysterious craftsman proposed to exchange her only youthful memory - the negative of her graduation photo - for the restoration of her watch, she thought it was the mercy of fate, but she didn't know that she had fallen into a deeper abyss: Su Qing had resold the negative to the black market for personal gain, and the restored watch was nothing but a disguise of lies. And the ensuing cyber violence was weaving her private fragments into a nosestring. From the transaction of the "Time Craftsman" to the digital restoration of classmate Cheng Yu, every "hope" has turned into a more ruthless betrayal: the graduation photo was implanted with malicious images and spread all over the Internet, and the camera lens of the father was crushed by Su Qing herself in the warehouse. Those objects that carried love and warmth - the ticking of the watch, the smiling face on the film, the reflections of the father and daughter in the lens - eventually all turned into floating fragments in the river, sinking along with her trust in the world. On a stormy night, willow catkins stood by the river, watching the last piece of glass shards carrying memories slip through their fingertips. When the "tick-tock" sound was frozen forever, and when all the cherished people and things turned into ruins, she finally understood: Some fragmentation is a judgment already written by fate. All she could do was to fall into the darkness that had devoured all the embers with her body covered in scars. This is a cruel fable about "loss" - when memory becomes the original sin and repair is just a hoax, we will eventually learn to reconcile with the cracks in life or be completely swallowed up by them in the repeated crushing of hope and despair.