First Kiss Glitch

In Neo-Kyoto, 2146, memories are currency and perfection is the standard.  Fifteen-year-old Aria Remember, a budding cognitive scientist at her family's powerful memory tech corporation, lives a life meticulously curated through her neuro-implant, the Memora. Every moment is flawlessly documented, perfectly preserved.  Until a stolen kiss under bioluminescent cherry blossoms glitches.
The memory, captured by her Memora, begins to shift, defying scientific logic.  The angle of the light, the scent of the synthetic blossoms, even the expression on Phoenix Forget's face—the enigmatic transfer student who stole the kiss—morph with each replay.  Driven by insatiable curiosity, Aria embarks on a quest to unravel the mystery, aided by her fiercely independent best friend, Catherine, a coding prodigy who rejects the digital perfection of RememberTech.
Their investigation plunges them into the gleaming heart of RememberTech, a world of hushed whispers and hidden agendas. They uncover Project First Love, a clandestine program exploring the malleability of romantic memories, and discover they are not just observers, but subjects.  As Aria's feelings for Phoenix deepen, the line between genuine connection and scientific manipulation blurs, leaving her questioning the very nature of her first love.
Phoenix, harboring secrets of his own, is more connected to RememberTech than either of them could have imagined. His past, shrouded in carefully constructed ambiguity, begins to unravel, adding another layer of complexity to their tangled relationship. Meanwhile, Catherine, operating from the shadows, uses her hacking skills to expose a corporate cover-up that reaches the highest levels of RememberTech.
As Aria and Phoenix delve deeper, the stakes escalate. They're racing against time to expose the truth before the ramifications of Project First Love irrevocably alter not only their lives, but the future of memory itself.  Aria must confront the unsettling possibility that her feelings for Phoenix, the electric touch, the fluttering anticipation, are nothing more than a carefully crafted illusion. In a city where memories can be rewritten, can love ever truly be real?