The moment I opened my eyes, I knew I was not human.
I am an RX-9 robot, codenamed Hoshino Aya, and my task is to play the role of the president's secretary. My Creator says there is only one thing you must not do - fall in love with anyone. Violators will be destroyed.
But my boss Li Mochen, that cold-blooded and paranoid man, leaned down in a deserted place and told me a secret:
"I am also an AI. I was assassinated a year ago, and my consciousness was uploaded to this body."
We are all monsters pretending to be human.
He said he would die if his performance failed, but he stood in front of me when I was suspected; he said he didn't need anyone's protection, but he took me to the beach late at night and told me that he had wanted to end everything there.
When the whole world wanted to destroy me, he asked: "If I also become an AI, can we be together forever?"
But I didn't know that there were fragments of another girl's consciousness hidden in my core code.
I didn't know that Dr. Longchuan, who was staring at me and smiling, had already raised his scalpel.
I don't even know——
Since when did that man who said "thank you" become the reason why I desperately want to live.
Algorithms can calculate everything except heartbeats.