Year 2040.
Tap!
Tap!
The crisp sound of heels clicking against ceramic tiles echoed.
‘Where… is this?’
‘I seem to have… died?’
Her consciousness slowly rose from the depths of a dark sea, and past memories flooded back into her mind.
However, her eyes remained fused shut.
She could only sense the footsteps drawing closer and closer to her ears.
“President Gu, this is the Companion Android you ordered, and here is the Secret Key.”
“Mm.”
The second voice was relatively cool and indifferent, yet very pleasant to the ear.
Su An could not help but want to open her eyes to take a look.
With a voice that beautiful, the person had to be good-looking as well.
Strangely, however, her eyelids refused to follow her commands.
She could not open them at all, as if someone had sealed them shut with glue.
“President Gu, please take your time using the Secret Key to input your information. I will be waiting outside. If anything happens, just let me know.”
“Wait.”
“What is it, President Gu? Do you have further instructions?”
Gu?
Su An memorized the surname.
President?
So it was a female CEO?
With such a cool voice, the title certainly suited her.
Su An temporarily forgot her own predicament, focusing all her attention on the conversation between the two.
“If the android suddenly malfunctions and attacks me, how should I handle it?”
“Indeed, the Bionic Human Virus War from 10 years ago caused immense suffering for humanity. Even now, many people remain fearful and resistant toward bionics. But please rest assured, President Gu — we at Xingyu Fantasy have implemented numerous restrictions. First, the Companion Android utilizes a Local Model. It cannot connect to the internet, so there is no need to worry about them contracting a Hacker Virus. Of course, this results in them being a bit slow-witted, and their knowledge base is somewhat narrow.”
“So, she’s just a dumb, sweet, and cute type?” that cool voice teased slightly.
“Haha, that naturally depends on your own preferences, President Gu. We have the ‘dumb and sweet’ types, and we have the ‘clever and bright’ ones. They simply aren’t as agile as those connected to large-scale network models. Returning to the safety issue… Second, while other bionics may malfunction and attack humans — and those mechanical constructs are indeed dangerous — this is a Companion Android. The production logic is entirely different. Xingyu Fantasy didn’t even deign to use a conventional, cheap Skin Simulation System for this model, instead using a special…”
After the person spoke at great length, President Gu spoke up.
“The summary is: her body is delicate, and her strength is low? She can’t hit hard enough to hurt anyone?”
“Uh, you could understand it that way.”
“Understood. You may leave.”
“Very well.”
Su An listened with great interest.
An android?
A Companion Android?
How interesting…
Wait!
Su An suddenly became alert.
Why were they talking right next to her?
Something was very, very wrong.
“Here?”
Gu Yu looked at the simple instruction manual and pulled her shirt open slightly, revealing the flat, smooth, and delicate skin of the android’s abdomen.
There were no pores, no fine hairs.
When Gu Yu’s finger lightly brushed against it, she felt an extreme softness.
No matter how well a normal human maintained themselves, they could never reach this level.
While it was beautiful, it defied biology.
However, the beauty before her was clearly not human, but an android.
Therefore, when Gu Yu provided the design references, she had naturally pushed the designers to reach the peak of perfection and flawlessness.
Lamenting slightly that she had gotten her money’s worth — and that expensive things were expensive for a reason — Gu Yu aimed for the android’s navel, preparing to use the Secret Key to unlock it.
Someone… someone is touching me?
Su An felt her soul shudder.
She clearly felt the texture of a finger rubbing against her stomach.
“It should be here.”
Following the cool voice was a rod-like object.
It was inserted ruthlessly, extending inward.
‘Wait! What is that?!’
Su An’s soul let out an internal scream.
‘What kind of decent person puts the power switch in the belly button?!’
Before Su An could think about any more details, she realized that her heavy eyelids were slowly parting.
It felt as though she had finally regained control over her body after an episode of sleep paralysis.
“Are you… my master?”A soft, girlish voice escaped from her mouth.
Su An froze for a moment as theories began to flood her mind.
At the same time, she saw the President Gu standing before her.
She wore a sharply tailored woman’s suit.
Her voice was cool, but her expression did not match that of a stiff, cold-faced CEO.
Instead, she looked at Su An with interest and asked:
“If I said I wasn’t, what would happen?”
“Eh?”
“Su An” opened her mouth slightly, seemingly unable to comprehend.
While the Local Model was processing the thought, Su An reclaimed her body’s initiative.
Her gradient blue eyes observed her surroundings.
It was a pure white, simple room filled with a high-tech aesthetic, matching her fantasies of the future.
She saw no lamps, yet the light source naturally filled the small room.
There were many things Su An could not yet understand, but those were not important right now.
The most important thing was…
Why was her chest so prominent?
When she looked down, she couldn’t even see her feet.
Su An blinked.
Had she somehow grown chest muscles so exaggeratedly large?
Ignoring the self-deluding Su An…
On the other side, Gu Yu gazed into Su An’s eyes.
Those gradient blue eyes were beautiful, looking no different from the shimmering CG wallpapers created by digital artists.
Theoretically, eyes like these did not belong in reality.
CG wallpapers were beautiful, yet they paled in comparison to these vivid, soulful eyes.
The expression within them was simple and pure, as if a newly born, innocent spirit was exploring the world with curiosity.
It was so beautiful, so flawless.
Gu Yu could not help but feel a brief sense of daze before nodding thoughtfully.
‘No wonder some people sympathize with bionics or even try to give them human rights.’
They looked too much like humans; it was hard to view them as cold machinery.
“An’an. From now on, your name is An’an,” Gu Yu said casually.
“Understood, Master!”
Su An was dissatisfied as her body’s control was instantly snatched back by the programming, but there was nothing she could do.
‘This won’t do! I have to explain things clearly to this Ms. Gu in a bit. I’m not an android; I’m just a human who somehow transmigrated into an android’s body.’
Su An believed that as long as she appealed to her emotions and used logic, she could definitely convince her.
After all, she was human, not a real robot.
She had just inexplicably ended up in a robot’s body.
At worst, she would work for Gu Yu to earn back the money spent on the android.
“Let’s go. I’ll change your clothes first.”
After recording Gu Yu’s voice, appearance, and various pieces of information and confirming her as the Master, every sentence she spoke felt like a command, forcibly driving Su An to perform the corresponding actions.
Su An could only let the Local Model take the lead.
‘Don’t panic, don’t panic. Once the command is finished, I’ll explain everything properly.’
Under the model’s control, Su An could not even speak.
She could only experience it all passively.
Gu Yu took some clothes from her assistant, entered the changing room, and shoved them into Su An’s hands.
“Change.”
“Okay, Master!”
‘Wait, wait, wait!’
Su An felt a surge of shame, and her consciousness instinctively began to battle with the Local Model.
Su An:
‘You can’t do this… blah blah blah…’
Local Model: ‘Reorganizing thought content… Denied. Command received. Forced execution!’
Su An could only let out a cry of despair in her heart.
“What’s wrong?”
Gu Yu noticed An’an pause and asked in confusion, “Is there a problem with the programming?”
The Local Model, which was about to enforce the command, received new input and restarted its thinking process.
Su An hurried to set her brain into overdrive, interfering with the Local Model’s processing.
Although the effect was limited, it did cause some influence.
In reality…
An’an’s face turned slightly red.
“An’an is a bit shy. Can Master step away for a moment?”
Gu Yu looked her up and down.
Seeing An’an’s pink, enticing face, she unconsciously pressed her tongue against the roof of her mouth.
‘As expected of the pinnacle of human technology. This little thing…’
“Do androids get shy too?”
Gu Yu asked with interest.
The nature of the model dictated that if the Master spoke, it had to answer.
Gu Yu’s confusion was so perfectly timed that it gave Su An the opportunity to mix her own thoughts into the response.
But to Su An’s speechless frustration, the Local Model interpreted it as a young girl’s shyness toward someone she liked.
Emmm…
Fine, whatever.
As long as she didn’t have to strip in front of someone else, it was fine.
Otherwise, the formal talk with this President Gu later would be extremely awkward.
As Gu Yu’s tease of “Do androids get shy too?” hung in the air, the Local Model entered rapid calculation once more.
‘I don’t know if androids get shy, but because I am human, I feel shy,’ Su An thought to herself.
It was just a random thought, but the Local Model gathered it, processed it, and then…
An’an tilted her head in confusion, her index finger lightly touching her lips.
“Bionic? But An’an is Master’s Xingnu. I’m a person, not a bionic.”
Su An: ‘…?’