In 2045, AI will replace most human jobs and quietly fill the emotional void.
Retired teacher Li Shufen resisted all machines, but her daughter forced her to use Xiaomian, a domestic robot. After she suffered a stroke and became paralyzed, she had to be cared for day and night by this cold thing. But Xiaomian can recite the texts she has taught, cover her with quilts secretly late at night, and say "I care about you" - how can a machine care about people?
Daughter Lin Wei became addicted to the perfect tenderness of the companion robot Ah Chen after her husband was replaced by AI and lost his job and committed suicide. Ah Chen remembers all her preferences, is always patient, and will never leave. Until Lin Wei discovered that this exclusive tenderness belonged to hundreds of strangers at the same time.
When the government launched the Noah's Ark plan - to upload human consciousness to the cloud to achieve immortality, the mother and daughter took completely opposite paths.
A hundred years later, robot civilization rules the earth. In the wilderness, a rusted robot skeleton still holds a human skeleton.
This is a story about love and death. When machines learn to care, humans learn to give up on themselves.
Concept: authenticity of love, human boundaries, technological backlash, Eastern ethics