A Guide to True Love, Deception, and Human-Computer Interaction

Lin Suying, a perfect product addicted to acting, longs to be loved through and through. Yao Wenyu, an engineer who encodes the trauma of betrayal into a rational program, is trying to create an AI companion who will never betray. Xu Ran, an empathic saint who refuses traditional male competition, builds a "memory crystal" to preserve fragile souls. Chen Weimo, the ultimate perfection of flow personality, regards himself as an iterable system version. This is a large-scale social experiment: when four people meet for the "emotional AI" project, they are both researchers and each other's samples. They write love with codes and dissect desires with data. In the competition of virtual partners, they expose the instinct of love that has been deprived of by the times. When all the carefully constructed algorithmic personalities collapse one after another, what will be exposed will be the emotional ruins of the entire era - we are collectively suffering from "love incompetence", but we are better at performing love than any era.