This is a collaboration project between several gifted individuals who only aim to answer one question: Are Meteor Garden's Daoming Si and Dong Shancai bound by a fate that will see their love through any universe?
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Title: iDMS | Author: Shar ( Asian_fangirl7 ) | Universe: Artificial Intelligence | Story Rating : M
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In the Daoming Holdings head office, Dong Shancai was engaged in a familiar standoff. Except it wasn't with her usual sworn nemesis.
She narrowed her eyes at the tall, spiky-haired guy in front of her. Even she had to grudgingly admit she was slightly blown away by the unprecedented sophistication of the A.I. technology.
This new-generation humanoid robot looked exactly like Daoming Si.
She continued to scrutinize it, and the robot stared blankly back at her. That was the only difference - the absence of his usual heated glare and condescending scowl.
Shancai took out her phone and began to type; after all, she wasn't here for fun, or because she enjoyed spending time with a Daoming Si derivative.
She was here to work.
After graduating with a degree in journalism from Ming De University, she had landed a job in a media company in Shanghai that allowed her to do the kind of reporting she was passionate about: uncovering the truth, including any wrongdoing by conglomerates, even though her articles often got watered down so that the news would not be suppressed.
A few days ago, her boss had suddenly given her a new assignment - to spend two months with a new robot prototype created by Daoming Holdings and compile an in-depth report on it.
There were many things about this she found inherently strange.
First, why would Daoming Holdings engage them - a small-to-midsize media company - to report on its not-yet-launched A.I.?
Usually, these things would be kept top-secret until the official launch. And even then, they would only release exclusives to large media companies they already had an ongoing relationship with, so as to ensure only positive publicity.
Second, and more importantly...
Why on earth did China or the rest of the world need a robot that looked exactly Daoming Si??
Essentially unnecessary invention, she indicated in her notes.
What could such an extraordinarily unaffordable robot be used for?
She had the sudden mental image of robot Daoming Si cleaning the houses of the fu er dai*, in place of those conventional, circular robot vacuums.
Shancai shook her head. What is the robot's true purpose, she typed, is it merely to celebrate Daoming Si's narcissism??
Flipping through the thick manual the robot came with, she noted its working name.
