“People cannot imagine anything they have never experienced, seen, or felt. All imagination is made up of fragments of past experience.”, Philosopher David Hume
Are you the same?
[Brain-computer interface + mystery + stand-ins + clearheaded career-minded heroine + two equally matched leads + nonhuman male lead + stand-in romance]
In 2035, reporter Lin Xiaoxing uncovers a shocking secret: her robot boyfriend, Qin Che, is being controlled by the dark web and monitoring her every move.
Even stranger, a bionic android who looks exactly like her is taking over her life.
Then a mysterious man suddenly appears at her side: Li Xun, half human and half machine, with an identity shrouded in mystery. He has a face strikingly similar to her “ex-boyfriend’s,” yet seems more human than any machine.
“You shouldn’t get involved,” he says coldly.
“What about you?” Lin Xiaoxing raises an eyebrow. “Whose stand-in are you?”
They are caught up in a shocking conspiracy involving “mind uploading”: the rich trade “soul vessels” on the dark web, the poor have their consciousness imprisoned in game worlds as NPCs, and the altered “nonhumans” are awakening in the darkness…
When your memories can be erased and your body replaced, who can you still trust?
A clearheaded heroine who rejects manipulation, a loyal half-human, half-machine monster, and a group of people abandoned by the world expose the soul scam at the heart of a trillion-dollar empire.
“They say you’re not human,” Lin Xiaoxing says, looking at him.
“What do you think?” Li Zhan asks.
“I think…” She rises onto her tiptoes. “Humans aren’t nearly as good at flirting as you are.”
