Guixu

In 2119, Lin Shen took the Earth-Moon flight to Guanghan Palace to see his wife Su Wan, who chose to upload her consciousness due to ALS six months ago. She remembers all anniversaries and every word he said. The sweet-scented osmanthus tea she brews is always as sweet as three standard rock candies - as perfect as a perfect answer sheet. Only Lin Shen knew that she was not Su Wan. The real Su Wan would be so nervous that she would drop half a osmanthus candy, secretly put an extra rock sugar in her tea, make miscalculations, lose her temper, and be imperfect. He thought it was a bug in the AI ​​system, until he found that more and more people around him became "perfect": no longer quarreling, no longer making mistakes, always rational, always correct. The 12-byte signal from the Oort Cloud has arrived, and a cosmic-level consciousness called "Xu" is inviting all intelligent life to join the eternal perfect world - no pain, no separation, no mistakes, and no sugar. Everyone was walking towards that perfect sea, only Lin Shen was going against the flow of people, trying to get back the warmth of his half osmanthus candy. He walked a long way, from the moon to Mars, from the earth to the Kuiper Belt, and entered the sea of ​​consciousness that he had waited for 1.2 Billion years. In the end, he discovered that all the eternal order, the truth of the universe, and the great evolution were nothing compared to her blushing smile when she knocked off half a candy under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree that autumn.