The Android's Wife

janiejma Science Fiction

Transmigrating into a parallel world and nearly getting hit by a flying car is bad enough. But coming home to find a ridiculously handsome, high-end synthetic butler—along with a staggering $1.25 million debt attached to his activation—is a new level of hell.

Tan Li just wants a refund.
"Can I return him?" she asks the manufacturer.
"Abandoning a synthetic is illegal, ma'am," the rep replies.

Fine. How bad can it get?
Terror Event #1: What if the synthetic butler has a real human template—and that template is a dangerously obsessive man who looks exactly like him?
Terror Event #2: While working a dangerous gig, Tan Li runs into a dead acquaintance walking and talking. What kind of haunted city is this?
Terror Event #3: Her boyfriend comes back from a mission with total amnesia. Perfect. Maybe it's time for a clean breakup?

Except, when Tan Li meets the elusive and elegant Mr. Xie Zhen, he holds her hand a little too long.
"I apologize," he says, smiling politely with a chillingly dark look in his eyes. "It's just... you share the exact same name as my wife."

Tan Li is tough, sharp-tongued, and totally unfazed by ghosts. But she might have just met her match in a deceptively gentle man who is definitely not what he seems.

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