My AI Double Insists on Stealing My Place and Keeping Me to Herself

[The main story is complete! If you enjoyed it, please add it to your collection. It really means a lot to me *cute plea]

[Tsundere, gorgeous, tragic genius researcher 0 x green-tea, deceptively sweet, straightforward robot 1]

Shen Lanxu, who had been in a vegetative state for twenty years, suddenly wakes up.

The first thing he sees when he opens his eyes is a robot standing beside his hospital bed, with a face almost identical to his own.

Robot: "Please don't marry him..."

Shen Lanxu: "?"

Robot: "You can marry me."

Shen Lanxu: "..."

Shen Lanxu opens his mouth. "Who... are you?"

The robot gazes at him expectantly. "Wen Xingyi, your substitute. So, can you marry me? You should at least let me be either your husband or your lover, right?"

Shen Lanxu is utterly speechless. Where did this marriage-mad lunatic come from? Has the whole world gone crazy?

Shen Lanxu immediately adds this fake substitute to his list of mortal enemies.

Anyone would be furious to wake up and find a bionic replacement wearing their own face.

He deliberately provokes it by leaning in. The robot's ears turn red, and it says softly, "Mr. Shen, don't tease me..."

He curses it harshly, and the robot obediently lowers its head. "I'm sorry, Mr. Shen. I'll do as you say..."

Furious, he raises a hand to strike, but the robot simply stares at it without moving. "Does your hand hurt, Mr. Shen...?"

Shen Lanxu: "...?"

He can't do a thing to this hunk of scrap metal.

Wen Xingyi always looks completely harmless, its lashes trembling as it coaxes him in a soft voice. "Please, Mr. Shen..."

Shen Lanxu has no answer. Inside, he grits his teeth. What kind of lunatic built a robot like this?

Shen Lanxu thinks he's got a pushover he can manipulate however he wants.

No one knows that at night, the robot that behaves so impeccably by day stands by his bed like a ghost, silently watching his chest rise and fall.

All its gentleness disappears from its eyes, leaving only a dark, overwhelming possessiveness, as if it wants to take him apart and swallow him whole, stain him completely, and brand him with a mark that belongs only to itself.

Wen Xingyi bends over him, its cold fingertips hovering by Shen Lanxu's cheek. It laughs softly. "Mr. Shen, if only you'd stayed in a vegetative state after that fire, never to wake up..."

That way, you would belong to me alone.

[Bonus scene]

Before they get together:

Wen Xingyi, full of righteous indignation: "So what if I'm just a 'substitute'? Humans made me this way! Don't marry him, please... Boo-hoo... This 'mistress' has everything: fighting for you, competing for you, and knowing how to put on an act!"

After they get together:

Wen Xingyi clings to his arm and sobs. "Administrator, you made me, so that means we're properly married! You absolutely mustn't have a 'mistress' on the side!"

Shen Lanxu scratches his head, utterly hopeless. "Why don't robots have wires I can pull out? I should've known better than to make it so smart..."

* Pure romance, one-on-one, no switching roles, both are each other's first, gong is a master of pretending at first, happy ending, shou-focused!

* Imaginary setting, no real-life model, complete outline, deep bond, equal focus on plot and romance, mystery and deduction with melodramatic romance

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[Upcoming novel: User Manual for a Sympathetic Doll. If you like it, please show your support.]

[Important: I'll post a preview early once it reaches 350 collections. The novel officially launches on August 28. Please add it to your collection *cute plea]

Everyone thinks the campus heartthrob Qi Sizhao is an aloof, untouchable beauty.

Only Lu Mian knows that he secretly wears women's clothes in front of the sympathetic doll Lu Mian gave him!

Lu Mian has had a crush on Qi Sizhao for two whole years.

His sketchbook is full of secrets: his senior's lashes trembling in the sunlight, the ends of his hair sticking up while he sleeps in the library, and... countless blush-inducing, "not safe for work" drawings of the two of them.

On the day he confesses, he clutches the sympathetic doll he made by hand. So nervous at the sight of Qi Sizhao that his mind goes blank, he shoves the doll into Qi Sizhao's arms and runs away.

Only after he comes to his senses does he realize that he'd shoved over the sketchbook full of those not-safe-for-kids secrets, too.

The whole school knows Qi Sizhao is gentle but distant, and that he throws away gifts he doesn't accept. Lu Mian can't bear to imagine what might happen, so he immediately posts online for help.

Lu Mian's plea for help goes viral:

Anonymous user 5424: [I gave the senior I have a crush on a sympathetic doll and a bunch of explicit comics... Am I doomed?]

1F: [Oh? Did you include an instruction manual? You're really something.]

2F: [Could it be the campus heartthrob? He's the type to throw dolls around and tear them up!]

After reading several floors of horror stories, Lu Mian curls up into a ball under his blanket and writes his will: Boo-hoo...

But that night, he suddenly feels someone gently gathering him into their arms. A warm kiss lands on his forehead, and someone even brushes his hair for him.

Lu Mian: The senior really is a gentleman!

The next day, he feels a little chilly, as if he's been put in a maid outfit.

The third day, a qipao.

The fourth day, a Lolita dress.

Lu Mian keeps feeling like there's nothing underneath when he walks around. Face red and hair standing on end, he angrily posts anonymously on the forum: [Help! What pervert stole someone else's doll and dressed it in women's clothes?!]

Then he comes across a trending post on the campus forum:

Anonymous user 2070: [The person I like gave me a doll and ran off. Is that a hint that they want to have a baby with me soon? I am kind of handsome, and they're kind of... no, they're gorgeous.]

The replies below all call him out: [??? There's a limit to how full of yourself you can be!]

Lu Mian, furious, replies directly: [Look in the mirror, you delusional creep!]

One day, Qi Sizhao opens the notebook he obtained by accident.

His eyes pass over the portraits of himself, then stop on the explicit sketches. He raises an eyebrow and smiles.

Oh, so he's not a little white rabbit after all. He's a little custard bun with a yellow filling?

...Then it would be okay to do even more outrageous things to him, right?

At last, Lu Mian can't take it anymore and rushes over to get his doll back.

But Qi Sizhao gently pins him against the door of the art room, his fingertips brushing Lu Mian's damp eyelashes.

Qi Sizhao: "You drew all those pictures. Don't you plan to take responsibility for me?"

Lu Mian: "Th-that's not an instruction manual... You can't dress me in women's clothes anymore!"

Qi Sizhao: "The forum says it's a 'guide.' Besides, were you the one who called me a delusional creep in that post?"

Lu Mian: !!!

How do you even know that was me when I posted anonymously?!

Qi Sizhao ruffles his messy cowlick.

"Be good. We don't need the doll to teach us this time."

"Let's put it into practice directly, okay?"

Bonus scene:

1F: [So what does a sympathetic doll actually feel like?]

Lu Mian replies using an alt: [Don't ask. Let's just say the senior really did read the 'guide,' and he's a fast learner...]

Qi Sizhao replies under his real account: [Yes. I had a good teacher.]

The thread explodes: Oh my god, it's that cold campus heartthrob!

2F: [Wait, when did the senior figure out the OP was the original poster?]

Qi Sizhao replies under his real account: [The first day.]

Lu Mian vanishes into thin air again: …

I want to escape Earth!

3F: [So where's the doll now?]

Qi Sizhao replies under his real account: [Put away. Use it sometimes.]

Lu Mian: Shut up!!!!!!!

* Suave, slightly twisted, repressed 1 x shy, cheerful little ray of sunshine 0

* Pure romance, one-on-one, mutually unrequited crushes, happy ending

* Mutual crushes x secret identities exposed x forum posts x romantic push and pull

Theme: Human emotions are greater than anything and cannot be replaced by machines