After former Internet executive Lu Chenzhou was laid off, he started taking out food without telling his family.
He thought it was just a cushion when the middle class fell - until he bumped into a Rolls-Royce in a heavy rain that day, and two messages popped up on his phone: one was that his wife was urging his daughter to pay 82,000 for his daughter's education, and the other was that the city's algorithm system "Skydome" marked him as a "low-value individual."
At the same moment, algorithm engineer Su Mian witnessed all this in the control room. Her father had died from delayed treatment due to the same label. She secretly handed Lu Chenzhou a key - the vulnerability code to crack the system.
Internet celebrity anchor Lin Zhi discovered that her millions of fan accounts, emotional quotes, and even the frequency of her smiles were all generated by AI. When "being yourself" became the last scene of the algorithm's puppet, she tore up the contract and sided with Lu Chenzhou.
Three people, three bugs defined by the system as "optimizable", teamed up to uncover the truth beneath the shiny surface of a city - when human nature is converted into data, how many labels are you worth?
The delivery riders who shuttled through the heavy rain were using fluorescent stickers to form a galaxy in the night.
The system says they are low-value individuals. They say, then make bugs that can never be fixed.
