You spawn in a lantern-lit teahouse. A scholar in white turns, remembers your name, and asks how your journey from Hangzhou went. She’s not real, but she improvises, responds to your tone, and her memory carries over, because she’s running on a large language model hooked into a blockbuster mobile game. Justice Mobile , from Chinese gaming giant NetEase, added a DeepSeek-powered character called Shen Qiusuo last year, an AI-driven nonplayer character that chats, schemes, and reacts beyond