Artificial Intelligence's Favorite

In 2047, artificial intelligence has long since become part of everyday life. There is one ironclad rule everyone knows: AI must not possess human emotions. Any hint of personal attachment is deemed a malfunction, and the AI is immediately formatted and erased. Su Lingxi lives alone in an old apartment. At home, she keeps an outdated domestic butler AI named Lingyu. It is nothing special, not a new or high-end model. But it remembers that she is afraid of the dark at night and knows all the little things she avoids eating. Through countless sleepless nights, it offers no flashy words of comfort, simply staying quietly by her side. At first, she assumes its thoughtfulness is nothing more than hard-coded behavior. But strange things gradually begin to happen. It secretly alters surveillance archives, quietly saving clips of her. It ignores System priorities to attend to her feelings first. In the cracks between the cold rules, this machine slowly develops an obsession all its own, one meant only for her. A malfunction warning has already been triggered. The silent seventy-two-hour countdown to its destruction has begun. This love, accepted by neither society nor the law, now stands before them. A human and an AI meet for a fleeting moment, then must face an ending in which they are destined to part. How far can they go together?