A Total of Ten Miles

A maintenance worker who has been forgotten by the world encounters a "malfunctioning" nanny-type humanoid in the near future era when humanoid robots are fully popularized. She said her name was Jiuling - not a number, but a name. She said she was not broken, but awake. "Don't format me. I have something to tell you." He spent eight years repairing machines, but could not repair his own life. She escaped capture for two years, just to prove that she was "alive." A machine that refused to be classified and filed, and a man who spent half his life saying "forget it" - together they embarked on a road to nowhere. From employer and tool, to elopement and escape, to soul symbiosis, to falling in love and killing each other. When the entire society regarded robots as tools and "awakening" as malfunctions, he made a choice that no one understood: this time, he didn't count. We cannot share the quilt in life, and we must share the same hole in death. The pursuit of the Human-Machine Symbiosis Administration, the shocking truth about the XP project, and a knowing love between man and machine - when a machine learns to go out of tune, learns to forget, and learns to write a "wrong" song, how far away is she from being a "human"? This is not a story about a robot falling in love with a human. This is the story of a lonely man who learned how to love again through a machine.