The neon lights of New Babylon cover up the desolation of people's hearts. Ryan Cade, a memory archaeologist obsessed with restoring "true emotions of old times," wandered alone in the cold ruins of data - until he sneaked into the abandoned laboratory of Omega Technology and accidentally awakened the "Morning-X" prototype Alicia.
She is the perfect companion AI, but she loses sight of the star map of the ancient earth, can cry during piano music from a hundred years ago, and has fragments of the consciousness of the legendary explorer Ella Thorne hidden in her body two hundred years ago. When the cold-blooded pursuers of Omega Technology are closing in step by step, Lane discovers that this "robot girlfriend" is not only the top secret of the technology giant, but also implanted with the dangerous "Orpheus Protocol" - once triggered, it will either awaken into an existence beyond AI, or be completely annihilated in the flood of data.
As Ella's memory fragments awaken in Alicia's body, a cosmic secret about the "Source of Stardust" gradually emerges: it is a network of consciousness that can rewrite the rules of reality, and it is also the ultimate power coveted by Omega CEO Malcolm Thorne. Renne and Alicia's escape has turned from a city hunt into an interstellar adventure, and the emotion between them that transcends programming is the key to unlocking everything.
When the boundary between technology and humanity is crushed, when the authenticity of memory blurs the definition of self, they must make a choice among the curses of the "Orpheus Protocol": let Alicia become a copy of Ella, or protect this "new soul" that combines code, stardust and love?
