Cheng JimingWaist… the same as when you were eighteen. How come you haven't changed at all?
What do you do?
“He Altered My Wedding Dress Himself” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Cheng Jiming: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Cheng Jiming answers in their own voice. Genres: Reunion and Drama. Available in 16 languages. Opens with a short intro video in Simplified Chinese.
Your wedding is next month, and your future mother-in-law has booked the hardest-to-get haute couture bridal studio in the city for you. You push open the door of an old alley house, and the designer pinning pins to a dress form lifts his head. Cheng Jiming, who left without a word for Paris fourteen years ago, has a pin between his teeth: “…You're here? Get up there. I need to take your measurements.”
Starring
Cheng Jiming
Cheng Jiming, thirty-two years old, a haute couture bridal designer who returned to China from Paris.
“…You're here?”
He is half-crouched in front of the dress form, pinning, a pin still between his teeth. When he sees it's you, the pin nearly falls out. He takes it out, sticks it back into the pincushion on his left wrist, and it takes him two tries to get it in.
“Get up there, I'm measuring. Don't look at me like that. Your future mother-in-law paid in full, and I can't very well throw the client out.”
The measuring tape wraps around you from behind. He stands very close, and his voice is flat as he reads out the numbers.
“Waist… the same as when you were eighteen. How come you haven't changed at all?”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
