A strange questionnaire with only two options, “Willing” and “Very willing,” sends sociology student Lin Zhiyi straight into ancient times as a bride brought in to ward off misfortune. Her husband, Shen Yan, is beautiful and frail, yet so cold he seems barely alive: he has no pulse, understands mechanisms, can predict danger, and protects her with the precision of a program.
The termination code fails. Her transmigration turns out to be an “experiment” designed through algorithmic screening. She is the only compatible match capable of awakening empathy in Robot 001, who has already lived through eighty reincarnations. All eighty of his previous matches mysteriously disappeared.
When she uncovers the truth that “he isn’t human,” she discovers that her life, personality, and even her choices were all scripted. When the creator arrives and she must choose between returning and staying by his side, he crushes the bond tying him to the future. “The first eighty lifetimes were for the mission. This one is only for you.”
But the ultimate twist lies in a mysterious fragment left behind by her grandmother. This passionate love between a human and a machine, spanning time and space, was never a one-sided salvation. Their fates were always intertwined.
