Grandmother Liu didn't upload to extend her power or escape death. She uploaded because her family asked her to. The Liu family — three generations living in a Shelf residential block — pooled their savings to upload their matriarch when her health began to fail. Now Liu Meihui exists on a modest server in the family's apartment, dispensing advice, telling stories, mediating disputes, and gently correcting her great-grandchildren's homework. She is the most mundane uploaded consciousness in GLMZ — a grandmother in a box, doing exactly what grandmothers do. She finds the whole thing amusing. 'I lived for 94 years,' she says. 'Now I live in a box and my grandchildren still don't listen to me.'