Technology does not create human flaws.
It only gives them new interfaces.
R.E.D. / 001—003
01If a colour were forbidden,
how much reality would remain?
After a car crash, the painter Lin Shen sees a colour the world has erased. His search for red draws him into the depths of perception, memory and the right to choose.
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02Pain has a price.
The wound stays in the body.
The first time the construction worker Gao Sheng sells his pain, he receives 4,800 yuan. What seems like a good deal slowly changes how he weighs risk, his body and his life.
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03A smile can be measured precisely.
What about happiness?
An Ran is the city's model citizen for public happiness. She practises smiling every day. When her brother's surgery becomes tied to happiness credit, what she must keep up becomes more than an expression.
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When pain can be sold, smiles can be measured, and even seeing a colour requires permission, how do ordinary people live? What choices do they make?
R.E.D. takes Human Faults as its central theme: people living under the pressures of technology, order and survival. Convenience and harm can arrive together; good intentions can lead to irreversible consequences. Each story begins with a rule and comes to bear on a particular life.
Created by LONGDAODAO, within LONGDAODAO UNIVERSE. The works share an author's concerns and recurring themes, while each retains an independent story world.
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