The Original Version

On his eighteenth birthday, Wen Su receives an anomaly notification only he can see: "Deviation from preset path detected. Initiate self-correction?" He has known since childhood that his life was planned by his mother using the "Jixia Growth Engine." Diet, courses, friends, future—all optimized by algorithms. He thought getting into Tsinghua was the end goal. Until he discovers an encrypted folder in the system called "Original Version"—which might contain his true self before the algorithm modified him at age three. To open it, he needs his mother's heartbeat. He decides to go home during winter break and steal that key. But he gradually realizes: his mother is also a pre-made person. And the "Original Version" is not the real at all, but an interface for defiance left by the system. When the boundary between pre-made and real collapses, what he must face is not his mother, but the system that has been waiting for his awakening from the very beginning. One-sentence summary: He spent eighteen years before realizing he was "pre-made." And the key to unlocking his true self is his mother's heartbeat. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: The Original Version — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠