When 21-year-old AI medical imaging prodigy Lin Weixi rushed into the conference room at Yanzhou Tech clutching a sheaf of notes, she thought she was there to crack an “algorithmic problem worth hundreds of billions.” She never imagined she'd catch the eye of Shen Yizhou, the richest man in the country, who was seven years older than her.
He was a decision-maker who could move mountains in the world of finance. His tailored black suit accentuated his broad shoulders and trim waist, but as she stood at the whiteboard working through equations, his fingers stopped tapping the table without him realizing it. It was the first time he'd seen anyone explain complex multimodal fusion algorithms as calmly as a simple arithmetic problem. The sight of her bangs falling over her forehead made him fall for her in an instant.
He never resorted to deliberate sweet talk, but he showed his care in every detail. When he learned that her university's servers were down, he immediately opened access to Yanzhou's cloud database, even making sure the labels for rare cases were crystal clear. When he heard she was so busy she'd forgotten to eat, he had an assistant deliver shrimp and egg porridge without a trace of the cilantro she couldn't stand. The password for her backup laptop was her birthday, and the note on its inside cover read, “Come to me anytime you have a problem. Don't worry about the time.”
But Lin Weixi was clear-eyed. She was a hard-driving researcher who had entered a gifted program at fifteen and published in a top journal at twenty. Used to pouring all her energy into data, she instinctively kept her distance from the tenderness of a man from a different world. He was President Shen, perched at the top of the pyramid; she was just a student who wanted to work on algorithms. This flutter in her heart felt too much like an unreal illusion.
When people teased Shen Yizhou for being “too restrained in his pursuit,” he only smiled as he watched her concentrating in the lab. “Her world should be algorithms and starlight. I don't need to rush. I just need to provide the resources when she needs them, and when she hesitates...
