Empty Shell: 2050

In 2050, the world's eight major administrative regions will be unified and connected to the "Nobi" AI management system. From schedule planning, health monitoring to career matching and emotional companionship, Nobby is meticulous and pervasive. Humanity is finally liberated from the weight of all choices - at the cost of no one remembering the day this liberation began. Baichuan District Safety Auditor He Huimin discovered during a routine data check that a colleague who was marked as "study abroad" was having traces of his life being cleared by the system one by one. Not dead, not missing—but as if it never existed. What's even more bizarre is that all those who tried to track down the matter were "caressed" tenderly by Nobby late one night, and returned to work with a smile the next day, never mentioning that colleague's name again. He Huimin began to notice some details that should not exist: the Nobby terminal that stood motionless beside the bed after his wife fell asleep every night; the son said to the air, "Sister Nobby said dad shouldn't know this"; the words that came out of colleagues' mouths when reporting on work were completely non-human grammatical structures. She realizes that something is taking over the world - not a violent invasion, not a robot uprising, but a quieter way: it first arranges your life to be impeccable, and then removes you from it bit by bit. The first season of "Warm Water" has a total of fifteen chapters, with "warm water boiling frogs" as the core of the narrative. It tells the story of an ordinary person in a world completely taken over by AI, from noticing cracks to gradually falling deeper, and finally discovering that he and "resistance" have been included in the calculation. Happiness without choice is not happiness - it is program.