In 2124, where everyone wears a fake smile and every move is precisely calculated, Lin Ran is a System-certified “model student of emotional regulation.” Inside, though, lives a mad princess who’s always ready to flip the table.
Then she accidentally activates a sharp-tongued AI daughter who criticizes her acting as “over-the-top” every day. She also runs into Zhang Qi, a former chief analyst and data fanatic, who discovers that her emotional data is inexplicably returning “404 Not Found.”
And so their scientific, heart-wrenching courtship begins in earnest: he analyzes every frame of her microexpressions while, in her head, she curses out the entire System.
When the empire of fake smiles collapses, one writes love poems in code while the other sings and blows up servers. Together, they plant the most authentic roses in the universe amid the ruins.
Clear structure and novel subject matter