Nine Years of Reverse-Engineered Love: More Than Code, She's My Love

This is a science fiction romance. When Zhou Wenyuan, the protagonist, sees the red line on a pregnancy test shatter the illusion of his nine-year marriage, he realizes that Zhixia, the perfect wife he coded into existence, has a secret hidden beneath her flesh and blood. From that cold tech exhibition in 1999 to the unmistakable movements of a baby on an autumn night in 2008, the love that began as a program has long since broken free of every preset command, through three thousand days and nights of shared breath and warmth. When a lie becomes the deepest truth, what is it that we love: the perfect illusion, or the tearful soul beneath it?