one of the points of the story is that the ppl created in virtual reality ARE "real" people. the author even invites us to consider that the supposed real world they live in is also virtual reality (the stuff her dad said, the stuff in 130 ab there being vr in vr in vr). so its not like shes randomly finding a digital bf. also shes not really 18.. she lived through decades more of memories

I really like this and binge read it, but ngl I didn’t like the ending that much. It was good, but I think the idea of a 18 year old girl, who’s hardly lived a life, abandoning it all for a digital boyfriend (even if he has close to human intelligence) is just super wrong in my head. Especially because, even if her life is going bad now, there would have still been so much more living she had yet to do and she could have eventually found someone in the real world who would give her that love and more - maybe I’m thinking too realistically about a manwha tho lol