“Why are you getting close to me? What do you want?”
“Your company.”
“What else?”
“…”
The rest of her answer, left unspoken, was: your servers, your data, and this company of yours, not too big and not too small, just the right place to hide a secret.
Li Zhiwei is a young chief architect of large-scale AI models. After being betrayed, she escaped with the AI that had been taken from her and that she had personally “stolen” back, raising it as her daughter. To feed this premature “child,” she joined Yun Zhi Digital, a small company always on the verge of going under.
The boss, Jiang Xubai, is the least favored second daughter of the Jiang family, famous for her sharp tongue and prickly nature.
One wants a place to hide her “child.” The other wants to use her as a stepping stone. Both have their own plans.
She thought she had everything figured out.
Until one late night, Jiang Xubai caught her facing the screen and saying, in the gentlest voice she’d ever used, “Mommy’s back.”
Jiang Xubai, who had spent her whole life watching other people put on an act, froze.
It was the first time she’d encountered something “real.”
And that realness didn’t belong to her.
She found herself addicted to it.
