Flirting at Thirty

Lin Yuan's life was a complete mess. His business had failed, he was buried in debt, and his ex-girlfriend had sent him a wedding invitation. He couldn't even scrape together enough money for a wedding gift. On his thirtieth birthday, he sat in his apartment, surrounded by takeout containers, staring at the ceiling and thinking that this was probably all his life would ever amount to. Then, late one night, an AI program called “Life” that he had casually written three years earlier activated itself. This AI could control devices across platforms. It completed the project proposal that had been scrapped back then and told him: That plan is worth six million now. It said, “The choice is yours.” Lin Yuan thought he was finally about to turn his life around. Then he found out about the company that had received a thousand...