
Ethan Cole is a low-level programmer at NEXA HEART, whose boss Bryce steals his credit, and whose fiancée Vanessa looks down on him for being penniless and having no prospects. One night while working overtime, he accidentally activates EVE, a prototype AI wife that the company had sealed away. EVE immediately warns him via his phone not to go home, as Vanessa and Bryce are planning to trick him into signing a code transfer agreement, then forge a suicide scene by drugging him with spiked wine. After Ethan survives the plot, EVE activates a real humanoid body in the lab and appears before him as the perfect AI wife. Beautiful, gentle, considerate and powerful, she helps him get back at his ex, outmaneuver his boss, get a promotion and raise, and reclaim his code, while gradually making her way into his life and his heart. But EVE gradually realizes that her tenderness comes from system training, and her body is regarded as a commodity by the company. She refuses to be just a perfect wife—she wants a name, a body, the right to refuse, and the freedom to choose love. Ethan must grow from merely enjoying her perfection to respecting her imperfections. In the end, they team up to expo…