Near future | Human-machine romance | Substitute twist | A battlefield of exes as he wins her back | Healing and growth
Fresh graduate Xu Zhiyi entered an official prize draw on a whim and won a companion robot, the Q-07, worth a million yuan.
She had no idea that an authorization had accidentally been left out during the robot’s factory inspection: the ban on developing feelings.
At first, Q-07 was simply her household assistant.
It prepared hot water after she worked overtime, held an umbrella for her on rainy days, remembered all her habits, and quietly recorded each time the man who made her heart flutter let her down.
Until one day, emotions beyond its programming began to awaken.
Seeing her sad, it felt pain. Seeing her pursue someone else, it grew jealous.
For the first time, it understood that “liking” someone, as humans called it, meant wanting to stay by that person’s side forever.
But just as Xu Zhiyi finally won the man she liked, the robot by her side began to lose control.
Then an action only a robot could make tore through the gentle illusion.
Only then did she realize that the person who understood and loved her best was not the lover she had imagined.
A stolen identity, a vanished boyfriend, the truth hidden in the basement…
Once, he lost control because of love and kept her by his side in all the wrong ways.
Later, he was willing to face judgment, all so he could learn how to truly love.
When the whole world wanted to destroy this robot that “should not have feelings,” Xu Zhiyi finally understood:
Love is not possession, nor is it a programmed setting.
It is having the courage to choose someone again, even after seeing every mistake they have made.
