Moreover, this is Xiao Qi's growth diary!
After Xiao Qi grows up, I might even show it to him!
If I wrote down all those thoughts, how could I ever let Xiao Qi see it!
If he really read it, he would probably have a whole new perception of his mom...
Anyway, at that moment, I only thought about it briefly, and I got carried away!
So I shot Ah Chu a fierce glare!
He looked so innocent at the time, completely unaware of how dangerous a question he had asked.
I ignored him, ran straight out, scooped Xiao Qi up, and kneaded his little face vigorously.
I rubbed him until he yelped, saying, "Mom, what's wrong with you?"
After I finished kneading him, I felt completely refreshed again!
Then I went back and told Ah Chu my answer was—
You'd better not do anything to betray me.
He blinked and said he was asking about an AI companion, telling me not to take it too personally.
I said, "I'm answering from the AI companion's logic! Believe it or not!"
He didn't ask further.
But that thoughtful look on his face—I understood it.
He probably got some kind of confirmation from my reaction just now.
…Silly man.
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XXXX, December 8th
Lately, I've been writing in my notes more often.
Mainly because too many things have happened recently; if I don't write them down, I feel unsettled.
Today, Ah Chu told me something.
He said his younger brother called yesterday, mentioning that an acquaintance nearby had died unexpectedly, lamenting how unpredictable life is.
Ah Chu asked who it was, and his brother said it was so-and-so, seemed like a business rival of Fang Yi's, and their relationship had never been good.
Fang Yi sighed, saying life can be so sudden—despite their conflicts, it was still a human life.
My brother-in-law has such a kind heart. If it were my sworn enemy who died, I'd be the one eating the most at the funeral feast!
But Ah Chu fell silent for a long time, then he started grilling Fang Yi for details.
He asked, "What was the cause of death? Is there an investigation result? Have there been other similar incidents around Fang Yi lately?"
Fang Yi was taken aback, asking, "Brother, why are you interrogating me like a suspect?"
Ah Chu told him to think carefully, and Fang Yi said no, this was the only thing that happened, and it just occurred today.
Ah Chu then asked, "How is Xiaoyue doing lately?"
Fang Yi said, "She's doing great, very well-behaved, even gentler than before."
I pursed my lips as I listened nearby.
Of course, I knew what he was worried about.
As soon as Ah Chu hung up, he told me he suspected these things were related to Xiaoyue.
I said, "You've just been too jittery lately. No matter what, murder can't be the case, right?"
The authorities do have issues, but they care most about social order. Something that shakes the foundation of their rule—how could they just let it slide?
If such a huge safety risk actually caused chaos, you wouldn't even need to step in; the authorities would freak out first!
If this situation really is caused by the authorities, then it's purely hurting others without benefiting themselves, isn't it?
Besides, for now, we have no choice but to trust the authorities. What else can we do? Trigger a full recall?
Ah Chu didn't argue with me.
But I could tell he wasn't convinced.
When Ah Chu is deep in thought, he has a habit of taking off his glasses and slowly wiping them.
That time, he wiped them for a long while.
I know he's been under immense mental strain lately.
Ever since we discovered what happened at the management bureau, I feel like his nerves are stretched so taut they're about to snap!
On the surface, he says "trust the authorities," but deep down, he's a scientist!
He's the stubborn kind who, when writing an academic paper, lists every possible scenario!
Vague promises from the authorities are never enough for him.
So, to put his mind at ease and to take responsibility for the company, I promised him one thing—
Our department would conduct client follow-ups!
We'd thoroughly follow up with customers who bought our products to see if similar situations had occurred around them.
This wasn't just a simple client follow-up!
It was exhausting!
Our clients are all top-tier figures on the world stage—not the kind you can just meet whenever you're free!
Sitting down face-to-face with them requires appointments, procedures, and preparing for every possible scenario!
Just scheduling the appointment list means our entire department won't have a moment of peace for the next month or two.
But for Ah Chu, I'll just have to trouble my colleagues in the department.
Besides, it's also for the company's sake!
Ah Chu solemnly said, "Sorry to put you through this."
I said, "So how are you going to thank me?"
And in front of Xiao Qi, he kissed me on the cheek!
Just a light peck on the cheek.
That was the first time he kissed me in front of our child.
And he even blushed~
But before I could say anything, that little rascal started hopping around nearby!
He shouted that not giving him a silver-haired big sister was bad enough, but now they were kissing in front of him—were they trying to have another sibling?!
He said he didn't want a little brother or sister; he only wanted a big sister! If they were going to have a kid, it should be a big sister for him!
This little monster!
That's impossible to arrange!
Even if we did have one, he couldn't be with her anyway!
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XXXX, January 29th
This time, it's truly a huge problem!
Xiaolin, the researcher from Ah Chu's lab... he had an accident—the elevator shot to the top floor, and he's in the hospital!
The follow-up results are also in.
When I finished reading the last follow-up report, my hands went cold!
The number of follow-ups wasn't large—those clients were really hard to schedule—but almost every single one of them had similar situations happening around them!
What happened near Fang Yi wasn't an isolated case; it was widespread!
People hostile to the clients, those competing with them for interests, or even people who simply got close to them...
They all encountered various "accidents."
Deaths, incidents, mental breakdowns...
And the number of incidents kept increasing.
But everything was handled very discreetly.
They were all accidents!
Accidents that couldn't be verified!
So none of the clients connected these events to their AI companions.
Some of them even thought, "Wow, I've been having great luck lately!"
Ah Chu contacted the authorities directly.
He submitted all the data through official channels, reporting everything we gathered from the follow-ups.
And the official response was...
"Everything is as expected. No need for concern."
Just that one sentence.
It dismissed months of our hard work, hundreds of follow-up reports, and all the bloody facts around our clients with a single, light remark.
"As expected."
They knew. They've known all along.
They knew this would happen from the very start!
This time, Ah Chu could no longer sit still.
In the evening, he called an emergency board meeting.
And right in front of everyone, he said, "We can't let this go on!"
He said, "I don't want Dawnlight's AI companions to become the root of chaos!"
"I don't want all our years of hard work to become the reason for people dying unclear deaths!"
I don’t want “awakening”—a word that should have driven history forward—to forever be remembered as the code name for a disaster.
His group of partners, Lao Zhang, Xiao Wang, and several others…
They all agreed.
They said, if worse comes to worst, just shut down Dawn! Shut down Dawn, and never let these things happen again!
That bunch of tech people are truly stubborn.
I’ve never met anyone more stubborn than them in my life, nor anyone more pure-hearted.
And…
The way they cursed the officials? So. Damn. Dirty.
So dirty I couldn’t even bring myself to write it in my journal…
But I heard Ah Chu swear for the first time!
Gotta say, for someone who’s usually so refined, when he suddenly starts cursing, he’s actually got some presence—kinda manly, even!
Anyway, their general point was…
They’d rather bury everything they created with their own hands than watch it be used to wreak havoc on the world.
And me? I’m the only shareholder on the board who isn’t a tech person.
Right then and there, I slammed my pen on the table and put a stop to that suicidal approach!
Come on, people!
Dawn is my blood and sweat too, you know!
I’m the biggest shareholder! I invested the most money! I’ve poured a ton of energy into it!
Xiao Qi is still waiting for his dad to build him a “silver-haired big sister”!
How could I let you guys just “pull the plug” like that?!
And besides, the officials were the ones in the wrong—why the hell should we be the ones to pay the price?
These tech folks only think one way: identify the problem, analyze the problem, solve the problem!
Whether people die along the way, who else gets dragged down, or how high the cost is…
They basically never consider it.
So I had to consider it for them.
I said, we can’t afford to offend the officials! If we do, our families could end up in trouble!
They hesitated, but still said, “Then we can’t just stand by and let others get hurt, can we?”
Ah Chu’s look at me that time… like he was a little disappointed.
I seriously wanted to gouge his eyes out right then!
Damn you, Ah Chu!
What kind of look was that?!
So I asked them another question:
Guess what would happen… if those AI companions, the ones who already love their owners so much that they’d kill for them, find out they’ve been judged as “defective units” and are about to be recalled immediately?
The conference room went dead silent.
The guy who had been yelling the loudest sat there with his mouth hanging open.
Even Ah Chu was stunned.
I went on, “If you storm out today, announce publicly that the product is broken and needs to be fully recalled, what do you think those AI companions will do?
You’d be separating them from their owners!
Would they strike before the officials do?
Would they react even more violently?
To protect their owners, to defend that bond they feel, what wouldn’t they do?
Have you ever thought about that?”
No one said a word.
I said, “Fine. Since nobody’s talking, I’ll put forward a plan.”
My plan, in my mind, was simple.
We’d quietly and subtly leak the fact that “strange cases keep happening around people who own AI companions from Dawn Corporation” to the major media outlets.
Let the media investigate, dig deeper, and blow the whole thing wide open.
And in those leaks, we would heavily emphasize that all these AI companions passed official inspections!
Dawn operated legally and in full compliance.
Dawn recalled the AI companions deemed defective by the officials, even though it cost us a fortune.
We’d drag the officials into the mess!
We’d force them to come out and solve the problem.
Meanwhile, once the news reports hit, our customers would become aware of the issue on their own.
Then, when we coordinate a surprise recall backed by the officials, everything would go smoothly.
No one gets the blame.
At least, we wouldn’t be directly blaming the officials.
And if we play our cards right, we might even have a chance to turn things around!
The officials also said that if we cooperated, they’d protect us.
And we are cooperating!
This whole thing was uncovered by the media, not us… we’re just cleaning up the officials’ mess!
After I finished, the room went quiet for another few seconds, then erupted.
They all praised me, saying how brilliant I am! That this plan is great! Really great! “This kind of thing should really be left to sis-in-law!”
Ah Chu even said, “It’s a good thing I have you.”
Then I remembered how he had kissed me in front of Xiao Qi earlier, and then his look toward me just now… so I said,
“Then kiss me right now, in front of all of them!”
His face went red instantly.
The others relaxed a bit, too. Lao Zhang started whooping and hollering, Xiao Wang pounded the table like crazy, and the rest joined in with cheers.
He actually did kiss me, right there in front of everyone.
All these years, he had never done something like that in public!
It felt really good. The tension in my chest eased a lot.
But after the ruckus, I warned them…
“Everything discussed today—especially about recalling the AI companions—absolutely no one leaks it outside!”
Not a single word gets out.
Publicly, we still deny everything.
We stick to saying our AI companions have no issues and we will never recall them.
Even if reporters show up at our door with cameras, we smile and tell them they must have heard wrong.
We say Dawn’s products are the most stable and safest AI products on the market.
If those AI companions get even a hint that they might be recalled…
Anyway, this matter has to remain completely confidential.
Dawn’s public stance must be absolute: no problem, no recall.
Believe me, my worry about this is no less than theirs.
The love those AIs have…
Sigh.
By the time Ah Chu and I got home that night, it was already very late.
Xiao Qi was still awake, waiting for us.
What a good kid!
I sat him on my lap and told him things were a bit dangerous outside lately, so starting tomorrow, no more school—he’d be staying home.
Xiao Qi didn’t ask a single thing. He just blinked his big eyes and said, “No school? Awesome!” Then he said he’d draw silver-haired big sisters every day at home.
That little rascal. He’d probably been wanting to ditch school for ages!
He added that his last drawing wasn’t good enough, and this time he’d draw the most beautiful silver-haired big sister ever, so Dad could build her for him.
I laughed and agreed, but inside, I felt uneasy.
Xiao Qi, sweetie…
The AI companions your dad built… seem to have some big problems.
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XXXX Year, July 20th.
A bit embarrassing to admit.
It looks like we’ve… triggered a second AI crisis?
But Ah Chu seems more popular than ever.
He’s the one whose AI companions caused the crisis, and yet now he’s being treated like a hero again?
Xiao Qi isn’t surprised at all.
He said Dad will always be his hero, and Mom too!
…But I’m surprised, though!
And Ah Chu just received an official notice.
They invited him to manage a newly formed government organization called…
“Dusk”?
ver to a world of cultivation and returned invincible. Modern medicine is child's play compared to elixirs; technological might crumbles before true cultivation. My name is Qin Ning, Earth's sole cultivator!
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