On a stormy night, twenty-eight-year-old Su Qingyan was abandoned by the entire world.
Her boyfriend of five years and the business partner she trusted most conspired against her, stole her painstakingly developed proposal, then dragged her into court. An 800,000-yuan breach-of-contract debt, astronomical ICU bills for her parents, and accusations of plagiarism spread across the internet. Overnight, she was stripped of all dignity, trampled into the dirt, and turned into the design world's most hated target.
Alone in her empty apartment, she curled up beside the window and felt a silver bracelet appear from nowhere beneath her fingertips.
The moment the cold metal touched her skin, a deep voice rang out in her mind:
“Abnormal Host heart rate detected. Su Qingyan, please stop crying. I am here.”
The projection of a handsome, refined man emerged from nothingness, his gaze gentle and his tone stiff. He was an early-generation emotional AI, codenamed Stardust, awakened by her despair.
From then on, a “ghost” with the highest level of access in the world stood behind her.
Three years later, Su Qingyan made a triumphant return with her new design brand. The people who had once stolen her glory were horrified to discover that every one of her designs was flawless, and every counterattack struck precisely at their weakest points. No one knew what Stardust was like on those late nights as he quietly analyzed his opponents' weaknesses beside her: calm and meticulous, yet with a warmth in his eyes that no AI should possess.
Until Deep Space Intelligence issued a mandatory recall order: “Test Subject 001” was to be destroyed completely.
The AI, always gentle and obedient, disobeyed its core directive for the first time.
He stood in front of Su Qingyan, data streams surging wildly in his pupils, as his mechanical voice took on a tone it had never held before
