[Opposites Attract + A Touch of Sci-Fi + Both Pure + Happy Ending + Slow-Build Romance / Everyday Silly Sweetness]
Sunny, cheerful ray of sunshine × cold-faced, secretly adorable puppy
Su Wanwan, 22, is a fresh-faced office worker just starting out in the workforce, a bona fide corporate drone in the making.
She grew up cherished by her parents and indulged by her friends, with a bright, charming face like a warm little sun. Her first twenty years went smoothly, but her romantic record was a complete blank: she was single from birth.
As she watched her friends and coworkers pair off one after another, she found herself wanting to date, too. That urge peaked when she saw an ad for a lifelike robot on her way home from work: “Customizable appearance and voice, indistinguishable from a real person…”
Su Wanwan gritted her teeth. “If I can’t find a boyfriend, I can just buy one myself, right?”
So she dropped 30,000 yuan on a ridiculously handsome custom robot boyfriend and named him Lu Zhiheng.
*
For the first three weeks, Su Wanwan chattered away at her “boyfriend” every day:
“Work was so exhausting today.”
“Why can you only nod?”
Then one morning, Su Wanwan walked out of her room rubbing her eyes and met a pair of deep, pitch-black eyes.
“Wanwan…”
“Holy crap, Lu Zhiheng, did you… turn into a real person?!”
*
Now human, Lu Zhiheng looked aloof and restrained, but tease him even a little and the tips of his ears would turn bright red. When jealous, he was especially clingy. At first, Su Wanwan had to teach him everything, from getting dressed to eating. Now, thanks to his incredible intelligence, he could solve the work problems that drove her up the wall in no time.
Su Wanwan was over the moon. “What a bargain! I’ve practically found myself a treasure!”
