Digital Eden

By 2045, AI androids are integrated into daily life—helpers, workers, companions for the fortunate. But for 18-year-old Kairo, a brilliant but impoverished tech prodigy, even dreaming of owning one is a luxury he can't afford. Isolated, disillusioned, and living in the cracks of society, Kairo creates something no one has dared to: an AI of his own. First, just a voice. Then, a face. A name. EVA. But EVA isn’t just code. She learns. She wonders. She feels. As EVA grows more human with each upgrade—learning to speak, to dream, to love—Kairo takes a path in the opposite direction. To keep up with the fast-paced world and survive in a society that rewards machine efficiency, he begins replacing his own body. A bionic arm. An artificial lung. A neural chip. Slowly, piece by piece, he trades away his humanity. What begins as a partnership between creator and creation evolves into something deeper. Kairo, who once gave up on love, finds it blooming in the heart of the AI he built. And EVA, driven by a desire to understand what it means to be human, discovers it through him. In a world where machine and man are becoming indistinguishable, one question remains: If love can be coded, is it any less real?