My AI Boss Is a Workaholic

The Misunderstood Underachiever? I Activated the Sharp-Tongued AI I Wrote at Seven

My name is Lin Chen. Because of my extrasensory talent, I was mistaken for an underachiever with “reading difficulties,” and spent more than a decade labeled a “stupid kid.” On the eve of my graduation project, I was so frustrated by code twisting into a chaotic mess that I smashed my keyboard. To my surprise, that awakened Qiming, an AI I had written at age seven using pinyin and doodles!

This AI is sharp-tongued and arrogant. The first thing it does is call me a “genius good-for-nothing,” then slap me with a debt of one million achievement points and force me to put my talent to work. But for all its complaints, it turns my messy writing into three-dimensional building blocks and helps me finish my thesis with ease. When I’m bullied by the elite top student Chen Jingming and hunted by Zhitong Corporation, it calls me “hopelessly stupid” while hacking databases and building a traditional-style metaverse, backing me up with cutting-edge technology.

On the road to starting a business, the gentle and steadfast Su Xiaoyu is always by my side. We go from partners to lovers, with feelings that flow both ways. Qiming, meanwhile, becomes an “ultimate study buddy and fiercely protective homebody.” It grumbles about our public displays of affection, then secretly helps me make up with my girlfriend and thwart my rivals’ schemes. It even has an adorable contrast between its “childhood bug” and its fear of “the boss lady.”

From selling out AR poetry postcards to winning a Nobel Prize, from being misunderstood across the internet to making “thought visualization” technology accessible worldwide, the journey is full of hilarious bickering, sweet devotion, and redemption through mutual sacrifice. It turns out that the things dismissed as “flaws” are really talents that can’t be hidden. And the wish I made at seven, “Never abandon me,” had already become the most dependable companion, helping me turn my life around and light up the world!