An interstellar exiled life form called the "Programmer" descends on Earth. It has no body, only a living genetic code - a "living genome" that can self-replicate, self-compile, and self-evolve. It needs the host's genes as the "soil" and uses the host's genes as the "blueprint" to develop a brand new physical body inside the host.
It selected Lu Chen, a young man who carried a rare "blank fragment" in his genetic sequence. That blank space is not a flaw, but a key, an "invitation code" carved into the human genome by ancient civilizations.
The sequencer developed a female body through Lu Chen's genes. She is not a copy, not a clone, but a brand new life - possessing the advantageous fragments of Lu Chen's genes and carrying all the capabilities of the Programmer race.
Her name is "Zhi".
She was his symbiote, his alter ego, his—partner.
