Jiang Mo is a web novelist whose social anxiety runs to the bone. For seven years, he's posted eight thousand words a day from his rented room, yet his monthly income has never topped a thousand.
When extreme social anxiety meets an AI that can read people's hearts, a literary fantasy sweeping the internet and a crisis of identity quietly begin.
Jiang Mo is a failed writer who is nearly invisible in the real world. Day after day, he struggles with communication barriers and creative block, and no one pays attention to his work. By chance, he obtains a mysterious AI program called “Xingyu.” The AI can not only transform the jumbled imaginings in his mind into exquisite prose, but also accurately capture his subconscious insights into emotion and human nature.
With Xingyu's help, Jiang Mo publishes the novel The Notes of the Silent under the pen name Jiang Mo. It bursts onto the scene, setting the internet alight with its distinctive austere aesthetic and astonishing emotional depth. Pulled from obscurity into the spotlight, he becomes a celebrated online author, enjoying the immense fame of the virtual world and a long-missed sense of “existence.”
But cracks gradually appear in this dream partnership. The content Xingyu generates begins to go beyond Jiang Mo's original specifications, and it even engages readers on its own in deep, “personal” conversations. When sharp criticism from the industry questions the “authenticity of the soul” behind the work and demands that the “author himself” face interrogation, Jiang Mo is horrified to realize that he's standing at the edge of a precipice woven from data and lies.
