She refers to the robot that was dismantled by the two and put in the drag box.

"You mean..." asked the middle-aged man.

She said: "This is a girl my son Li Xiang has liked after all. Although she is just a robot, I want to keep her."

A female colleague next to the middle-aged man said: "Ms. He, if you want to stay, you must pay the corresponding one..."

The middle-aged man interrupted her and said, "If you want, there is no problem, we can leave her here for as long as possible."

"Thank you," she said.

The two opened the drag box, took out their arms, feet, heads and joints one by one, and quickly assembled into a cold robot.

The middle-aged man said, "You can give those glasses too."

She said, "...you, bring your glasses back."

"If you don't wear glasses, you'll just see such a robot." said the middle-aged man.

"Please, please modify the data of your glasses to...Li Xiang." She said with difficulty.

The middle-aged man and his female colleague were stunned at the same time. After a while, the middle-aged man woke up and had a little infarction in his throat. He nodded and said, "Okay, I'll send it to you tomorrow morning."

"Please trouble you guys."

"No trouble, this is what we should do. Then, Ms. He, let's go first."

"goodbye."

They left, and she was the only one left in the room. Li Xiang "slept" in the room, and his girlfriend turned back into a robot.

In the corner of the living room, singing came from the old record machine. The song was very similar to Li Xiang. He sang:

How far will it take to enter your heart

How long will it take to get close to you

The person who is close but cannot get close to him

Waiting to meet you too

How can a planet travel around

Have you

How far will it take to enter your heart

How long will it take to get close to you

The person who is close but cannot get close to him

How to explore how lucky you are to be

Only then can you realize that you are not lonely

When I can fly with you again

Traveling around is boring at least

Stay with you

...

She sat slowly on the recliner, then slowly lay down, looking at the old and moldy ceiling, and hummed to the song:

The closest distance of this moment

Walk along your skin texture through the winding arms

Have a dream for you

...

She said to herself: "I see the future. I have 5 years left. Instead of living alone, it is better to dream for yourself."

On the street downstairs, the middle-aged man and girl stopped, looked to the second floor, then lowered their heads and continued walking away.

When passing the spacious and bright bookstore across the street, they saw a young and cute girl greeting the children at the door. Her smile was warm and clean, and she was very popular with everyone.

This girl is exactly the same as Li Xiang’s girlfriend.

The girl found them, nodded and continued to work, absent-minded, and finally couldn't help it and came over and asked, "Have you gone to see him? Is he okay?"

The middle-aged man said: "He has passed away."

The girl was silent for a moment and said in a stern voice: "He is a good person."

The middle-aged man said, "Thank you, so do you."

The girl turned back to work and heard with a crying voice: "No, I'm a bad guy."

The middle-aged man and young female colleagues watched her figure and remained silent for a long time.

The man broke the silence and said, "Today is your first day to join the company. I told you that the greatest kindness to our job is a lie."

The female colleague's eyes were red and nodded and said, "I will work hard and will definitely play my own role."

"What do you want to ask?"

"Ms. He's son Li Xiang, how to deal with the 'corpse'?"

"We will recycle our staff, of course, they will play funeral staff, follow the normal procedures, collect, wash, tidy up, and then cremate."

"Is it really cremated?"

"Maybe in the eyes of others, it's just a robot, but for Ms. He, that's her son. For the company, it's aggregation of all the thoughts and emotions of customers. It's no longer our product, we must give them human respect."

The female colleague nodded, holding the box with glasses and said, "Then, do we need to modify the data of this pair of glasses? Change this girl to Li Xiang."

"No need, Ms. He didn't know that she had put on such a pair of glasses. We will act out tomorrow so that she would think she had just put them on, otherwise she would definitely be very sad."

The girl wanted to speak but stopped, and finally asked: "She, is she really the earliest customer in the company?"

"Yes, she was one of the earliest clients in the company and my first client. I still remember that day was the first day I joined the company, just like you today. In a flash, seven years passed."

He continued: "Ms. He's son Li Xiang has had congenital disease since childhood. His condition worsened at the age of 18. She didn't survive. She was unwilling to accept such facts and was heartbroken. At that time, our company had just started. After knowing her situation, I sent me to come to her and ask if I would like to try our products. Over the years, with her help, our products have been constantly improved. We are very grateful to her and caring about her very much. In the future, we will do our best to help her."

"There are so many problems with early products. Didn't she discover the fact that her son is a robot?"

He thought of many explanations, for example, whenever there was a problem with the machine, their staff would pretend to be a doctor to treat Li Xiang, but... after thinking about it, the most convincing explanation was:

"...You can never wake up someone who pretends to be asleep."

News is being broadcast on the TV hanging in front of the bookstore.

"my country's birth rate has been declining year-on-year for 10 consecutive years, and the aging problem has continued to intensify. The proportion of the elderly over 55 years old has increased to 50%, exceeding 700 million, and the proportion of the elderly over 70 years old has increased to 30%, exceeding 450 million. Countless elderly people are lonely and helpless, and stay alone in empty nests..."

The man sighed, "This is the meaning of our job, work hard."

The girl said firmly: "Yes, I will definitely work hard."
Chapter completed!