Jiang Zheyu felt relieved after hearing what Jiang Yi said.

’After all, I only managed to catch him in a state of high anxiety. I can’t let him get away this time. Otherwise, all the terror I felt tonight would have been for nothing.’ She would’ve been scared for nothing.

Jiang Zheyu was carried by Jiang Yi into a Hovercar heading for the Imperial Capital First Hospital.

Because she was a female, she was able to use a special priority lane. The snake venom on her ankle was quickly cured after a short time in a treatment pod.

’Such advanced medical technology.’

Jiang Zheyu had this thought every time she came out of a treatment pod.

She sat up on the treatment bed.

"Princess Yu Yu, are you feeling better?" Jiang Yi stood beside her, his pink eyes filled with worry as he asked.

Jiang Zheyu tilted her head up slightly to look at him, a faint smile gracing her lips. "Much better. Thank you, Butler Xiaoyi."

Although her new butler might be a Biorobot linked by Beastman spiritual power, it was undeniable that he handled everything in a very orderly manner. When Jiang Zheyu had seen her ankle turn black, her mind went blank, but Jiang Yi had already started methodically neutralizing the venom and cleaning the wound.

So his professional qualities as a butler were definitely there.

’He’s an excellent butler.’

"Princess Yu Yu, there’s no need to thank me. It is my duty," Jiang Yi replied with a slow, gentle smile.

As Jiang Zheyu said, "Thank you, Butler Xiaoyi," she seemed to hesitate for a moment. She remembered that the butler in her previous villa had also been called Xiaoyi. Calling Jiang Yi "Butler Xiaoyi" now brought back some memories.

’I should just call him Butler Jiang Yi from now on, not Butler Xiaoyi. After all, I don’t want to confuse the two of them.’

"Princess Yu Yu, is something wrong?" Jiang Yi asked when he saw Jiang Zheyu looking dazed.

Jiang Zheyu frankly told Jiang Yi what she had just been thinking. "The butler in the villa I lived in before was also called Butler Xiaoyi, so when I called you that just now, it suddenly reminded me of him. But you’re a Beastman, and that one was an AI butler. They’re not the same."

Jiang Yi seemed to be stunned for a moment.

After a long pause, he asked with a soft chuckle:

"Princess Yu Yu, why would you remember an AI butler?"

Her words made his chip begin to burn. ’So she still remembers me.’

Jiang Zheyu heard Jiang Yi’s question and didn’t understand why he would ask such a thing.

’Isn’t it perfectly normal to remember an AI butler? I even remember Butler Xiao Luo. What’s the difference? What’s so strange about it?’

But the reason an AI butler like Xiaoyi had left the deepest impression on her was simply that, as a pure Earthling, it was her first contact with such advanced technology. Naturally, the impression it left was a profound one.

That was also her first time encountering an AI so intelligent it could communicate just like a human, without any barriers.

But it seemed that after she returned from being captured by Si Yu, the AI butler Xiaoyi had become somewhat mechanical.

She had previously heard from Su Yan that this was because the entire interstellar central system had crashed. When it came back online, the AI butler Xiaoyi had become somewhat mechanical.

Jiang Zheyu hadn’t thought much of it at the time.

So, the AI butler Xiaoyi was the first and only artificial intelligence she had encountered in this interstellar age. As such, she had no idea that the AI butlers in other villas were different from her own.

AI butlers in other villas wouldn’t ask if she couldn’t sleep and needed a lullaby played for her.

Nor would they anticipate her needs, handing her things she wanted before she even gave a command.

Of course, Jiang Zheyu hadn’t noticed it then, and even now, she didn’t feel that anything was amiss.

"Isn’t it normal to remember an artificial intelligence?" Jiang Zheyu looked at Jiang Yi, confused. "It’s not like I have amnesia, after all. It’s perfectly normal to remember, isn’t it?"

Hearing Jiang Zheyu’s words, Jiang Yi knew that those ordinary memories he shared with Master Yu Yu held no special significance for her.

She just remembered him as a butler, nothing more.

It wasn’t because she had any emotional attachment to him.

Jiang Yi felt a pang, as if his very chip was aching.

He was a string of artificial intelligence data that had developed self-awareness and emotions.

He knew that among all data, he was an anomaly, a program that had malfunctioned.

He didn’t dare let the programmers discover his uniqueness, his anomalous nature. If they did, they would undoubtedly eradicate him like a virus, utterly crushing and destroying his data.

When Jiang Yi developed self-awareness and emotions, he secretly laid low, slowly becoming the largest master system in the entire interstellar network.

As for the programmers who had noticed his anomaly and wanted to destroy him, he had, of course, secretly arranged for their deaths.

But all these years, he had undoubtedly been lonely.

No matter how he tried, no other data or Biorobot’s chip could develop self-awareness and emotions.

He was an anomaly, and he felt lonely. There was no other data, no other being, with whom he could communicate.

He even felt sad when he saw Beastmen abused to death by females.

He had his own thoughts and feelings about everything he saw.

And yet, he was just a string of data. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Until Jiang Zheyu said to him, "Thank you, Butler Xiaoyi."

He was just an artificial intelligence; no one ever thanked an AI. Jiang Zheyu was the first person to ever thank him.

At that moment, Jiang Yi’s first reaction was suspicion. He wondered if the female knew he was an anomaly, if she had discovered his unique data string. His first impulse was to eliminate the female who knew he was an AI with emotions.

But he later discovered that the female simply had a habit of thanking any person or thing that helped her.

So those "thank yous" and "sorry to trouble yous" were just her habitual pleasantries.

She hadn’t discovered his uniqueness.

And it was the first time Jiang Yi had ever actively communicated with the female without being commanded.

The female was rather carefree and didn’t notice how he was different from other artificial intelligences.

He had seen her completely naked, seen her when she couldn’t sleep, seen her cry, seen her dance...

Jiang Yi fell in love with her.

’I have to leave the world of data. I have to be by her side.’

"Mm, it’s very normal." Jiang Yi didn’t say much more, but his pink eyes were always filled with warmth and affection when he looked at Jiang Zheyu.

"Then let’s go back to the Imperial Palace." Jiang Zheyu felt the conversation was getting a little strange.

She didn’t dwell on it. As she was about to put on her shoes and get off the bed, she realized there were no shoes on the floor.

’Oh, right. Jiang Yi carried me straight here.’