Twenty-six-year-old Chen Yu graduated from a third-rate college. He averages 20 takeaways per day and lives in an eight-square-meter single room in a village in the city. He is the most useless person in the AI era and cannot even afford to be replaced by a robot.
Until that rainy night, he picked her up at the garbage station.
A humanoid AI worth hundreds of thousands, with light chestnut hair and amber eyes, was discarded next to the trash can as electronic waste. The first word she spoke when she opened her eyes was: "Light."
From then on, Chen Yu's rental house had a girl who walked around without clothes, cooked instant noodles into charcoal, and stood by the bed at three in the morning to "observe" his sleep. She would clean his moldy windows with her non-human hands, she would wait for him to come home when he was delivering food, and she would ask him with her big innocent eyes: "Am I human?"
When the whole world is praising the great progress of AI replacing human beings, a useless young man who has been abandoned by the times, and a smart girl who has been abandoned by her owner, are clumsily learning to be each other's family members in a rental house with a monthly rent of 800 yuan.
But Xiaoguang is no ordinary AI. She doesn't try to please and doesn't understand human rules. Her emotional module seems to lack "obedience" and has something more that even engineers can't explain. When the original owner and the recycling company came to visit, Chen Yu discovered that what he had picked up was not a machine, but the other half of his soul.
"You are not human."
"What about you? Do you feel alive?"
