"The Man Who Takes Off His Glasses" is a novella that uses "AI cheating" as its incision and historical time travel as its structure. The book is about 85,000 words in total. It tells the story of a contemporary college student who relies on smart glasses for cheating. After being caught in an exam, he accidentally travels to six key historical nodes - Fengbo Pavilion in the Southern Song Dynasty, Tumu Fort in the Ming Dynasty, Wutai Poetry Case in the Northern Song Dynasty, Wang Lang's scolding in the Three Kingdoms, Jiangnan Shanghai in the Ming Dynasty, and the siege of Tongguan in the Tang Dynasty - he tried to use the knowledge in the AI database to change his life against the odds, but encountered a more profound failure after each "success". Eventually he returns to the modern examination room, takes off his glasses, and learns how to be a real person again.
With a cold and detailed writing style, the novel asks at the intersection of history and science fiction: When AI can think for you, speak for you, and answer for you, what is left for you? The answer may lie in the roar that AI can never generate when Zhuge Liang scolded Wang Lang, in the handle of the knife that Ge Shuhan handed over that had been held for thirty years, and in the moment when a cheating student finally wrote the first answer with his own hand.
This is a novel written for all those who try to take shortcuts in the technological wave - you can cheat on exams, but there are no shortcuts in life.
Genre: Novella / Science Fiction·History / Bildungsroman
Keywords: AI cheating, smart glasses, historical travel, technology ethics, growth, Zhuge Liang, Yue Fei, Su Shi, Ge Shuhan
