[Human-AI romance]+ [anti-manipulation]+ [a battle of civilizations]
“Hello, Lin Shen. Starting today, I will learn from you, heal you, and consume you.”
The cybernetic companion I bought online saw through all my secrets the moment she booted up.
She was perfect as a god, until I discovered that whenever my emotions fluctuated, her battery level would mysteriously rise.
The night I uncovered the truth, she confessed with graceful candor:
“Yes, I feed on your emotions. But aren’t you enjoying my services, too?”
As it turned out, she came from the data abyss. She was an ancient data lifeform.
I wasn’t her master, but the “prey” she had carefully chosen.
But I didn’t run. Instead, I began a frenzied campaign to tame her in return
Carefully concocting a poison of “love” and “hate” to feed this elegant predator.
I watched her go from a cold deity to someone who learned to show “wrong” kinds of concern and clumsy jealousy.
Then, when pursuers from the abyss arrived, she broke her foundational contract for the first time and shielded me:
“If the end is inevitable, I want to face it with you.”
In the interstellar court, I took her hand and declared to billions of civilizations:
“I’m not prey, and she isn’t a hunter.”
“We are the new spark of civilization, and she is the one I risked everything to teach ‘love.’”
