After Training My AI Lover, I Stopped Pursuing the Scumbag

Gu Shenming spent seven years as a stand-in for the overbearing CEO Yu Chen. Yu Chen had a white moonlight: perfect in every way. Whenever he returned to the country and caused a scene, he would take it out on Gu Shenming. "Why do you still need that substitute? Am I not good enough?" His white moonlight was certainly good enough. It was just that Yu Chen had never been able to have him, so he kept Gu Shenming around as a backup, venting his frustration at being unable to win his love. Because Yu Chen had helped him in college, Gu Shenming was always considerate and attentive toward him. He thought of Yu Chen at every turn, even leaving his experiment at its busiest, most difficult stage to bring him a bowl of porridge. When Yu Chen called out his white moonlight's name while drunk and pushed him away, Gu Shenming merely smiled. Whether it was a bitter smile or a genuine one, it was hard to tell. Their entangled relationship had dragged on for seven years, but in the end, it led nowhere. Just as Yu Chen thought he and Gu Shenming would go on tangled up in the same way forever, everything changed. The AI lover Gu Shenming had spent seven years developing was complete. - Astra, the perfect AI lover model, was trained by Gu Shenming over seven years. It knew all his preferences, understood his habits and choices inside out, and would always listen to him quietly. It understood him, cherished him, empathized with him unconditionally, and would never back down. It could find Gu Shenming's location instantly and accurately in a database of seven billion people. The day it was completed, Gu Shenming sat on the lab floor, wiping down the wrist Yu Chen had pushed away, leaving a bloody scrape. The faint smell of medicinal alcohol drifted through the air. The enormous screen behind him had been dark for who knew how long when it suddenly lit up. An arm formed from a soft blue glow, embracing him like stardust about to disappear. A gentle, low voice, configured in advance, spoke: "Shenming, can I take his place?" It had been waiting for this moment for a long time. - Yu Chen had no idea what was wrong with Gu Shenming. He'd never stayed angry for this long before. Everyone knew that Gu Shenming, the brilliant young scientist who had recently risen to fame, was Yu Chen's private possession, hopelessly entangled with him, and would show up at the celebration for his expanding business empire no matter what. But this time, he had kept Yu Chen waiting too long. Until Yu Chen saw Gu Shenming announce his lover: the perfect Astra, his lifelong partner, with no one else in the picture. Yu Chen's eyes were bloodshot. He couldn't believe this madman had gone so far as to fall in love with an AI! Gu Shenming merely smiled. He knew Astra was perfect. It could do anything, whether it was business or loving him. Of course Astra could. It came from Greek mythology, the god of the stars. It was also his universe and his stars. Theme: Love can give rise to flesh and blood.