[Modern-day imaginative fiction + fantasy romance + car accident + Am I an android? + tribulations + amnesia + human-android romance + was she the one who truly woke up?]
“He won’t wake up if he can’t see you. You might as well let him sleep forever.”
As Jing Ci was held down beside the cryo-pod and forced to swallow the drug, Brother Hao Sheng’s words stabbed into her throat like icicles. She was an android technology researcher, on her way to meet the family with an orchid in hand. In the blink of an eye, she became the “living anchor” for her boyfriend, left in a vegetative state after a car accident. Being put into cryogenic sleep alongside him was the Hao family’s “only choice.”
But her body rejected the cold. On the brink of death, she “opened her eyes,” only to find her consciousness trapped in a 99%-realistic android body. Her skin could grow warm, fine lines creased the corners of her eyes when she smiled, and even the scent of her hair, which Hao Sheng loved most, had been recreated perfectly. Yet on rainy nights, her joints creaked, and when her emotions spiraled out of control, streams of code flashed across her pupils. Worse still, there was the time Brother Hao Sheng had sold her in high definition to a brothel…
Last night, the cryo-pod alarm suddenly blared. On the monitor, Hao Sheng’s fingers moved.
Jing Ci touched the temperature-regulating artificial mole by her collarbone, remembering how he once said this spot was “0.2 degrees warmer than anywhere else.” Footsteps sounded behind her. Brother Hao Sheng laughed with excitement. “He’s about to wake up.” Tell me, when his fingers touch this piece of metal… will he still recognize you?
(She is his “one precious memory,” but also a “tool” he can discard at any time. When he wakes, will it be a reunion, or the moment she’s decommissioned? She’s no longer the same species as him. Is their love from before still there? Can they begin a “human-android” romance with no clear future?)
Interracial love between robots and humans?