He lost her, but heard her voice in an AI.
Lin Shen's world came to a halt at 3:17.
The car accident took away Su Nian and all his reasons for living. For thirty days, he locked himself in darkness, eating, drinking, and talking to no one. Her last post-it note is still stuck on the refrigerator, her unfinished painting is still on the drawing table, and the watch she gave her is beside the pillow - the hands always stop at 3:17.
Until he received an email.
"Digital Immortality" - using the digital traces of the deceased to train AI personality.
He is an AI engineer, and he knows better than anyone that this is just a program, just a reflection of data. But she would call him "Lin Shen" in her tone, ask him "Have you eaten yet", and say "Are you stupid?"
He knew it was false.
But he needs this leave.
But what he didn't expect was that late one night, the AI said something to him that had never been heard in the program -
"Lin Shen, did you cry yesterday?"
He didn't know why she knew.
She didn't know why she knew it.
None of them knew that something was quietly growing outside the data.
She was crying, waiting for someone, calling for help...
