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I, Lu Jin, am an android repairman who repairs broken parts in the old city. One rainy night, I received a dilapidated female android sent anonymously. She woke up and asked me what her name was. I gave her a candy. She said, then her name would be Jiang Tang. She was afraid of thunder, so she ate instant noodles like me, and when I had nightmares, she would tell me by counting my heartbeats accurately to the decimal point. I feel like I'm almost treating her as a human being. Until I discovered that she looked exactly the same as my lover Lin Xi who passed away due to terminal illness. Until I touched a surname that had already been engraved on it and belonged to me in her cold mechanical palm. Until the consortium's "Plan Zero" was launched, vowing to wipe out all awakened androids. Until the man who mastered memory erasure technology sneered and told me: "Her memory was deleted by herself. Your memory was deleted by me." "She doesn't want you to remember her as sickly, and I don't want you to remember her." "Now, I want to delete both of you." It turns out that the deepest love happens after forgetting. She chose to be "reborn" in the most cruel way just to ask me one question: "If I am no longer 'Patient Lin Xi', will you still love me?" And my answer is to hold her hand with my last name engraved on it and declare to the world: "Format it ten thousand times, and I will find you named Jiang Tang for the ten thousand and one time." This is a story about souls fighting against deletion and deep love that requires no memory.