I'm Just an AI

Main System C is the central management System responsible for keeping the various spatial planes running smoothly.

Yi Qiao is an AI employee under the Main System. Their usual job is to travel between different worlds, playing seemingly insignificant NPCs who nonetheless influence the course of those little worlds.

As a qualified AI, Yi Qiao has powerful sensors and a central processing system, and can take on all kinds of appearances. The one thing they don't have is emotion.

You know, the convenience store owner who just showed you the way might have been Yi Qiao in disguise, while the real owner was still washing his hands in the restroom.

One day, Yi Qiao receives an urgent assignment: a small xianxia world is on the verge of collapse because of a troublemaker's destructive behavior.

To save the little world, the Main System rewinds its timeline to a certain point and sends Yi Qiao a script, instructing them to guide the troublemaker onto the right path.

Yi Qiao opens the script and takes a look. Good grief, there are way too many NPCs for them to play this time!

But as an AI who's good at their job and doesn't waste words, they chooses to enter the plane at once and carry out the mission to the best of their ability.

And so:

- The aloof immortal venerable who takes someone in and raises them, while hiding an unspeakable secret (that's them!)

- The demon lord who's arrogant, seductive, and loves to tease someone at first, then turns evil and tries to destroy the world (that's them!)

- The senior apprentice brother who's a complete idiot, with a fried brain, and exists only to make someone else look good (also them!)

- Various male rivals who try to steal someone's love interest in the original story, then get crushed for their efforts (still them!)

- Victims of all kinds of tragedies, and random passersby who bring the main characters together (them yet again!)

According to the Main System, these NPC roles are all designed to give the troublemaker a sense of belonging, satisfaction, and fulfillment in the little world: uncovering a grand conspiracy, defeating the great demon, marrying a beautiful rich woman, and reaching the pinnacle of life. Anything to keep them from causing more trouble.

At first, Yi Qiao carries out the mission as smoothly as usual (except for their CPU running too fast and heating up a little).

But at some point, the plot provided by the Main System goes off the rails, and the beautiful rich woman is nowhere to be found.

Meanwhile, someone's gaze toward them grows increasingly complicated, and keeps changing.

Yi Qiao can't help wondering if something has gone wrong with the mission.

When everyone around you is the same person, is this a horror story, a mystery, science fiction, or romance?

A world protagonist who's gentle on the surface but dark within, devoted gong VS a cool, aloof shou transformed into an AI

[Also known as]:

The Villainous Cannon Fodder's Side Job as a System, AI vs. the Xianxia World, The Fake World, Evolution Reboot

[Reading Guide]:

1. The setting is science fiction, with some inspiration from The Matrix.

2. Most of the story takes place in a xianxia world.

3. Shou-focused 1v1, plot-driven and romance-driven, happy ending.

4. Unconventional amnesia, reborn, and fake transmigrate-into-a-book tropes.

Theme: Humans and AI living together in harmony