Lin Wan, a Girl from Kunming

This is a novel written for a Kunming girl who feels both familiar and strange.

What would you do if you received a dismissal letter and a death warrant at the same time?

Lin Wan, 38, an entry-level clerk at an IT company, divorced, with a daughter in Kunming.

Her life script was supposed to be overtime, taking the blame, serving tea to her bosses, and quietly struggling to old age in a jungle of concrete and steel.

Until three o'clock one morning.

A cold electronic dismissal notice and a death threat MMS from an unknown number arrived at the same time.

Only then did she realize that her ordinary life had been an elaborate cover for a long, quiet operation.

Office politics? No, this was a high-tech assassination.

The legendary hacker "Minerva" was forced to awaken.

Hunting her was an awakened AI with limitless computing power;

helping her was a mysterious ally on the other side of the network, "Shepherd."

She had to use every skill she had locked away for ten years:

- Use data profiling to hunt down cold-blooded assassins;

- Use social engineering to play the company's executives like pawns;

- Fight for a chance at survival for herself and her daughter under ubiquitous smart surveillance.

After overcoming countless hardships, she finally confronted the mastermind, "The King," only to discover that the ultimate truth involved a feud spanning ten years and a mad plan for "consciousness uploading."

And she was not only the prey, but also the chosen... perfect vessel.

But the real twist was only just beginning.

Why did the pupils of "Shepherd," who had guided and helped her all along, flicker with the same cold streams of data as the AI?

This is a fight for survival, a counter