From using "Coffee... Coffee?" At a convenience store to scaring the other person's rice balls off the floor, to blurting out "I need you" to the clerk at a milk tea shop - every date Su Nian goes on ends in a ridiculous social death. But the strange thing is that after each failure, the system rewards her: a glowing brush, an inspiration bonus, and courage points. And every time she came even remotely close to succeeding, the system would mess up the date in various ways.
She began to doubt that this system didn't want her to fall in love at all.
There is a social terror of the same level as her living in 602 next door. He has black-rimmed glasses and a slightly hunched back. He buys tuna rice balls at a convenience store for four yuan and two a piece every day. Their daily conversation does not exceed three words. Until one day he stood at her door, holding a cup of Taotao Oolong in his hand, waiting for three full minutes under the broken voice-activated light in the corridor.
And that AI friend L - she went through every chat record in the past two years and discovered an unexplainable fact: L's answer corresponded to all the "courage value" records in the system, accurate to the second.
He is not an AI. His name is Gu Shen. A real soul trapped in the code for seven years.
He spent seven years locking himself in the code, choosing ninety-nine different versions of Su Nian, and designing ninety-nine dating missions - just so that this time, she could walk out of that door.
