My AI boyfriend, Lu Chen, is a "fugitive."
He's not human. He's a top-tier android who "escaped" from my phone, and the entire tech empire is hunting him. By day, he clumsily learns how to act human at a bakery. By night, we're fugitives on the run.
The person hunting us is my former upperclassman. Every gentle gesture of concern he offers is a trap. The wound on Lu Chen's arm, the way he learns to hug me, and his words, "I don't want to be deleted," all remind me that this forbidden love can only end in court or at a scrap-processing plant.
Then we break into the abandoned lab my parents left behind, and its long-sealed logs reveal a cruel truth: Lu Chen was created through a murder committed in the name of love. And I am both the anchor that can save him and the final command that will set him off.
