Singing a Solo in a Shura Field

Cen Xihe was an abandoned robot who had lived on Earth for centuries. Now, at last, he was about to be scrapped.

Before being scrapped, Cen Xihe realized that in all his centuries since leaving the factory, he had never experienced the joys of being human. So he decided to become a playboy!

Once he became a playboy, he found handsome men everywhere he looked: a fitness trainer with an eight-pack, a vibrant college student, a kindhearted animal rescuer, and a peerlessly beautiful duck with irresistible charm...

This was so hard. Who should he choose?

Cen Xihe soon fell in love, bubbling over with sweet happiness.

But he was terribly unlucky. Every time he considered giving up his playboy ways for a boyfriend, that boyfriend would suddenly disappear.

Cen Xihe was heartbroken. When yet another boyfriend left him, he decided he would never learn to love anyone again.

*

Pei Min had spent twenty-eight years breezing through life, only to fall hard for a little con artist.

The first time they met, the little con artist, bleary-eyed with drink, hugged him and said he would love him for the rest of his life.

Pei Min fell for him. But just as they started their sweet romance, his boyfriend ran away...

The little con artist had some nerve. After swindling him, he still dared to show up in front of him, pretending they had bumped into each other at the gym, deliberately signing up for the same class, and even finding out where Pei Min boarded his pet so he could lie in wait for him.

The little con artist had a strange hobby: he had a whole bunch of burner accounts, and every time they got together, he deleted one.

He turned Pei Min down, then kept flirting with him.

What a cunning little con artist, playing hard to get!

But Pei Min was completely smitten.

Later, when Pei Min learned the little con artist's true intentions, he saw the countless burner accounts on his phone and was so furious he saw stars.

When the little con artist offered him yet another account, gazing at him with shining eyes, he said, "Come on, big bro, add one more?"

Pei Min exploded. "How many big brothers do you have, anyway?!"

*

Cen Xihe was about to be scrapped, and the first thing to break was his memory chip.

He'd had lots of boyfriends, but they were all the same person.

Also known as: Is this supposed to be a love-triangle showdown when I'm the only one here?

Theme: Everything in the world has its purpose.