Love in Neon City

《双向雇佣-柠檬拌雪》 长评

by zhufree at 2023-10-17

This novel is a cyberpunk setting, so if you have played cyberpunk2077 or read any related sci fic novels you may feel familiar about the concepts in this novel. The city where the story happens is call Neon City, obviously controlled by several big corps. The MC work as a merc and FL is a programmer/engineer.
Unlike most mercs equipped with a lot of chromes, our MC dislike chrome and using her human body and skills about guns and fighting to do her work at most of the time. It's a typical enemies to lovers story, MC and FL met during MC's quest, and MC dislike FL at first bcs she hate workers in corps. However, as the story develop, they have more and more connections and gradually know each other more, the MC felt that the engineer is not as bad as she assumed, and the FL found something she need on this lovely merc.
The main story is based on battles between corps and the ppl they affected, also it can't avoid the typical AI topic. The author organized the story line well and their relationship changed smoothly. Also given this rare cyberpunk setting, it is definitely a worth reading story.

Two points that move me:
1. The first time MC and FL had sex was before they confirm relationship, actually, they became girlfriend very late, almost near the end, but they have slept quite some times before that, even when MC still dislike FL. Maybe because in the cyber world ppl always facing their desire directly and don't have so many rules for themselves. Anyway, I like this free attitude about sex.
2. There are two supporting roles that leave me deep impression, it's a hacker and an android created by her, they are also mercs and works as partner, the android has developed human emotions and have strong dependence and trust to the hacker, also the hacker would love to take the risk to hack into corps internet, just to get cutting-edge technology of the corp AI to make her android more emotional. That's one of my favorite kind of couple.