This paper explores the defining features of contemporary Chinese humanity by reading the lack of AI love narratives in China to discover the degree to which sociopolitical contexts could shape such a humanity. Chinese sci-fi works (re)present a complex relationship between technology and self, shaped by Confucian values, state agenda, and cultural problems. By analyzing works by Tong Enzheng, Liu Cixin, Chen Qiufan, and Ling Fengjiao, along with broader cultural phenomena such as pragmatic nationalism, techno-anxiety, and social atomization, this study examines how cultural frameworks in the past and the present facilitate, hinder, or limit our understanding of love as well as technology from a new possibility-based perspective. This analysis illuminates the way in which creative expressions of AI love, present or absent, reveal a psychological blockage that constantly prevents a daring thought experiment from crossing the line between human and artificial intelligence in modern and contemporary China.