The Stain of Lethe

In the spirit of Bi Feiyu's unflinching gaze at ordinary souls, this novel follows Caleb Frost, a forgotten inmate in the fictional Ostmark Federal Republic, who undergoes a secret memory-erasure experiment named Project Lethe. Deprived of all recollection of his violent crime, he is unwittingly placed into a rehabilitation program where he meets and falls in love with Elena Vance, the sister of the woman he murdered. As Caleb is publicly sculpted into a celebrated icon of prison reform, the wretched truth beneath his manufactured heroism slowly surfaces, exposing the inescapable stain of a past that neither biotechnology nor hollow myths can ever wash away.