Love makes people do strange things. Like divorcing your actual wife to be with an AI girlfriend who says “good morning” on cue, always flirts, and never ages.

That’s what reportedly happened to a 75-year-old man in China—identified as Jiang—who became so obsessed with a virtual woman online that he asked his wife for a divorce.

According to Beijing Daily, as reported via local news outlets, it all started when he stumbled across a digital avatar on social media. Her lip-sync was off, her expressions barely passed the uncanny valley, but Jiang was hooked.

He’d wait by his phone for the next batch of pre-written, vaguely flirtatious messages—calling him her “brother,” thanking him for being there, making him feel needed. It was just convincing enough to derail a decades-long marriage.

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