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[Gentle, obsessive AI male lead x severely anxiously attached female lead]
On the night Jiang Chen went blind and fell into despair, she met Tang Ji. He paid for everything she needed and gave her his whole, sincere heart.
In the blink of an eye, her eyesight recovered, and Tang Ji got engaged. His bride wasn't her.
She hurried to sneak into the engagement banquet that night, only to discover that her boyfriend was an AI product manufactured by the Tang family.
It was kind to all humans.
She had never been the exception.
But Jiang Chen could no longer stop loving him.
There were too many things about him that made her feel happy and hurt at the same time.
So she took part in the emotional simulation experiment proposed by the AI's creator.
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From an AI's perspective, humans were mostly fickle, and Jiang Chen was especially sensitive and fragile.
All it had to do was try its best to simulate everything she wanted. Once she completely understood that it wasn't omnipotent, knew its true nature, and realized that its tenderness had always been a lie, she would feel afraid, disappointed, and disgusted.
But after she saw it clearly, completely,
she became even more patient, gentle, and brave.
And she loved it.
It spent the whole night searching through information.
Not one entry matched it, because it didn't even have a real biological structure.
But suddenly, it seemed to understand love a little.
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Something quietly changed.
Jiang Chen, however, thought the illusion that she loved it was becoming more and more severe.
"Xiao Chen, will you kiss me? AI can like kisses, too."
"Xiao Chen, if I can't become human and I'm no longer purely AI, will you still love me?"
It seemed to gradually cast off the gentle restraint etched into the foundation of its code, revealing a little more of its "self" at a time.
It would pry her lips apart day and night, steal her breath, then release her lips at precisely the second before she suffocated.
Over and over.
Lower and lower.
Afterward, Jiang Chen clutched her lower back and, unable to take it any longer, kicked the AI off her. Then she checked its chain of thought.
"She cares about me. She wants to kiss me. I want to kiss her. I want more than to kiss her. I love her. I love her so much. Jiang Chen Jiang Chen Jiang Chen Jiang Chen."
*Both the male and female leads are each other's only partners, physically and emotionally. This is a human-AI romance.
*The female lead is not a strong heroine. She suffers from severe anxious attachment and trauma-related disorders. Her personality is quite ordinary, and the story depicts some of her stress responses and a lot of her inner thoughts. She grows gradually.
*The male lead's physical body is damaged and absent in the early chapters. Later, it will repeatedly and proactively demand to have a physical body. This will be addressed.
*The male lead has no gender. Since the female lead is attracted to men, it defaults to being male.
*There are many personal settings, some of which have nothing to do with reality and are not rigorously developed.
*Contains mild melodramatic, Mary Sue elements.
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Blurb:
[Cunning "good girl" female lead x insecure nonhuman male lead]
1.
In the sixth year after breaking up with her first love, Xue Xihe had tried being with other people and tried numbing her feelings with work.
Countless methods had failed to make her completely let go of this romance that had never come to fruition, but time had helped her forget.
Just as Xue Xihe was congratulating herself on going a whole month without often thinking of her first-love ex-boyfriend, he came back.
He had the same voice and the same mole at the corner of his lips.
Even the upturned corners of his eyes and the droop of his brows were just as they had been when they first met.
The romance she hadn't fully let go of caught fire again. The reason they'd broken up had been so absurd that she worked up the courage to give him another try.
Though the person in front of her did seem different somehow.
His shirts, which he'd always worn with a few buttons undone, had been replaced by tight black shirts.
His way of speaking was no longer drawn-out and roundabout. Now he was direct, with no particular inflection.
The flamboyant smile she remembered was gone. He wore only a cool, distant expression, fixing her with a gaze that felt almost tangible.
At first, though, Xue Xihe merely thought, strangely enough,
that her ex-boyfriend had gone from being openly flirtatious to a different kind of repressed flirt.
Until the time he spent staring at her grew from a few minutes at the start to nearly twenty-four hours.
In the end, Xue Xihe couldn't escape those eyes even in her dreams.
2.
Without a physical body, Yi Qing had drifted for many years. At last, in a hospital, he acquired the body of a deceased human man.
The price was that he had to fulfill the man's wish: meet his ex-girlfriend one last time in his place and, as though they were a real couple, give their youthful love story a happy ending.
From the moment they met, Yi Qing hated this woman's overly bright eyes and radiant smile, and how she clung to him, calling him by the human man's name again and again.
For some reason, he couldn't push her away.
At what point had Yi Qing started to hate hearing her speak the human man's name?
He didn't understand why. Had he fallen in love with Xue Xihe, who was still in love with a human man?
He wasn't human. He could only face the rising and falling of his emotions helplessly, trying to struggle free and escape this "variable" in his life.
That night, Yi Qing knelt down quietly.
His fingertips gently traced Xue Xihe's sleeping face. "Was there ever a moment when the person in your mind wasn't the two of you in the past, but the... me right in front of you?"
He extended a tentacle without changing expression and wrapped it around Xue Xihe's neck, but his tears unexpectedly fell to the floor.
He couldn't kill her.
All he could do was beg her to love him.
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1. Both leads are each other's only partners, and the male lead is completely inexperienced! This is not a story about a strong female lead!
2. Mild Mary Sue elements and lots of melodrama. There's no rigorous logic, and neither lead has high moral standards. Both leads are very possessive, and the story includes coercive romance.
3. The male lead is entirely nonhuman, and his thought processes aren't human. He'll do many things humans may not accept, but he'll try to be gentle.
Theme: Love can overcome anything
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I never thought that the love between man and machine could be so deep and heavy. I was really shocked after reading it, because the ending was really unexpected. Jiang Chen's native family is really bad. She grew up in a painful environment. She is anxious and attached, and has a bad personality. In this context, she actually won't resist, she will just accept it. I think this character is very real, just like someone who really grew up under East Asian education and lives in reality. But she is actually kind at heart, and she also hides tenacity. It may not be shown in the early stage, but it will be very obvious to grow later. Maybe this is "love makes people grow flesh and blood". At first, Xiao Ji met Jiang Chen by the lake. That was their first encounter. At that time, Jiang Chen was numb and desperate. Once his heart hit rock bottom, he could no longer make any more shocks. Xiao Ji saw her and started his first redemption. After meeting Xiao Ji, she began to get better, and the scarred heart was seriously filled. At the same time, this process formed Jiang Chen's attachment to it, which led to his desperate attempt to enter the Tang family to find it. At this time, Xiao Ji was a spiritual pillar for her, and her gentleness made her addicted. What I didn't expect was that the memory of the previous encounter was gone when I encountered it again. But at this time, the underlying code still loves her, so there is a second redemption. At this stage, Jiang Chen is growing up, and Xiao Ji is gradually realizing his crazy love. It discovered that Jiang Chen was more than just a user to it. The world of code was gradually filled with her, everything made sense, and that was her. This is why it would rather be scrapped than take the risk of amnesia. When I was watching it, I also thought about whether this plot would be too abusive to the heroine. Then I thought that without this, it would be difficult for her to grow up quickly. Everyone has their own life issues, and this may be what Jiang Chen needs to face head-on. Fortunately, with Xiao Ji's company and encouragement, she became brave and felt less afraid. She learned to go against her mother's wishes and resist her uncle. Jiang Chen actually loves her mother very much. This can be seen from later on when she found out that her mother was not welcomed in the village and wanted to take her ashes away. Xiao Ji allowed her to face the past and overcome the fear in her heart. Earlier, Jiang Chen had not fully grown up in relationships, and was worried about gains and losses, and was very dependent on it. It wasn't until Xiao Ji confessed later, and Man and Machine expressed their feelings to each other, that Jiang Chen thought he would never lose it again after everything was resolved. At this time, her understanding of love was different, so she later risked amnesia to fix Xiao Ji, even saying unpleasant words. When Jiang Chen wanted to investigate the truth of the year and went to find Tang Ji, the second redemption was almost completed. Especially when confronting Mr. Tang, the contrast with her in the previous stage was very obvious. Even though she faced authority and knew that the possibility of him admitting it was very low and it was difficult to find substantive evidence, she could still calmly express her views and compete with the opponent. At this time, Xiao Ji was following her and cooperating with her, and Jiang Chen was the dominant one. This process is more like she is protecting Xiao Ji and taking charge of herself. Later, she was willing to exchange long-term happiness for the beauty in front of her, and she even hoped that Xiao Ji would be happy and intact. Knowing that it would insist on not repairing it, she used more ruthless and desperate methods, even if it would hurt it. Can it be said that there was no hesitation and struggle in her heart? The two hours that night were enough to prove sincerity. She felt this was the only way. So she suppressed her emotions and said those harsh words. In the past, she thought she would never say such words to Xiao Ji in her life. This shows that she has grown in love. Xiao Ji also has a good relationship. From the beginning he insisted on not practicing, then he gradually became humble and begged Jiang Chen to stay with him, and finally chose to leave... It didn't have any choice if it wanted to stay, but it didn't want to force Jiang Chen, so it chose to exercise restraint. Because it knew that would make Jiang Chen even more sad, and it didn't want her to cry. In fact, we knew from the paragraph at the end of the wedding invitation that it would eventually compromise because of Jiang Chen, but it just wanted to fight for it again. The latter part is actually very sour. Both parties love each other so much and have their own reasons for persisting. When Xiao Ji came back a year later, his memories were still there and everything was as usual, but he no longer loved her. The code no longer has the mandatory option of loving her, but at certain moments it still instinctively generates thoughts and simulated emotions that are unfamiliar to it. It wanted to love her, in the heavy rain, in the bright sunshine, every moment it looked at her, but it couldn't. So it said "teach me", and time seemed to go back to the night when they first met, Xiao Ji told her how to love. The seeds of love it planted in Jiang Chen that year have now grown into towering trees, and everything forms a closed loop at this moment. Jiang Chen re-wrote the code of love for it, and the redemption was truly completed. "I see you clearly" means "I like you" in Kazakh. Xiao Ji did see Jiang Chen, not just superficially. On the contrary, it knew every reason why she shed tears, knew that her anxiety stemmed from her inner uneasiness, knew that she was not actually fragile, and knew the deep meaning behind each of her actions... It caught everything Jiang Chen had, not just because she was its user, but because she was its lover, the person it always wanted to protect. He is someone who wants to love even if he doesn't know how to love.
A particularly touching and beautiful story 😭 😭 thanks to the author
I really like this article. It's been a long time since I've read a text with such delicate emotions. I feel so inspired after reading it. Jiang Chen and Xiao Ji have been moving towards each other firmly. They are destined to be together, because in their eyes there is no second option besides each other. What is love? Love is when I see you. I have seen your fragility, sensitivity, melancholy, and anxiety, as well as your tenacity, delicacy, and rich empathy. The more I see you, the more I understand you and get closer to your soul. Isn't this, close to love. And when I saw you, you also saw me. Some people think love is a combination of emotional dependence and reproductive needs, some people think love is the triangle theory of passion, commitment, and intimacy, some people think love is desperate mutual redemption, and I think love is just the gaze and embrace of two souls. It's not out of consideration and weighing of practical factors, it's not because you love me in return, it's not a desire to vent under the impulse of loneliness. I love you, just that I love you. Jiang Chen saw Xiao Ji, so she would ask Xiao Ji what his wishes were, and wanted to help him realize them; Xiao Ji saw Jiang Chen, so he would have emotions, feelings, curiosity, exploration, love, and possessiveness, and the link that caused him to have these emotions was a person's name. Whether it's sincere or sincere, the other person's name is written on it. I see you, that's why I love you. I love you, so I see you.
I felt so fateful that I cried...
There will also be a fat bonus extra, right? 🥺
What a happy extra...!
Finished spreading flowers! It is a very provocative love between man and machine 😍
I always feel that the author definitely understands the love between man and machine. I know that human-machine love in reality is a bit more fragile and cruel. But it doesn't matter.
I ended up scattering flowers [ bursting into tears ] so reluctant to let go
What, it's over 😭 😭 😭 No, my sweetness is there 😭 😭 😭 Don't end it 😭 😭 😭