At the underground parking lot of Shenyin Technology Company.

Cheng Liu drove directly to the parked car. The car was still new, and she had only driven it a few times as a test.

She got into a car, started it, and initiated the system update.

It would take some time for the update to finish. Cheng Liu sat in the car and searched for the latest news from the car company in G City.

About half a year ago, the other company established a new department made up of several people, but the official website was unclear about the details.

Did they end the cooperation with Shenyin Technology and planned to do it alone? But the initial system code was established by Shenyin, and the R&D strength of G city car company in this area was not up to par at all, unless…

They stole the core technology.

Cheng Liu turned off her phone and stared silently at the car’s system. After the update was completed, she took a rough look at the newly added functions and suddenly sneered.

She took out her mobile phone and called two employees of the company, one of whom was still working upstairs. After receiving the call, the employee arrived at the carpark a few minutes later.

Cheng Liu had already used her computer to connect to the system in the car. She handed the computer to the employee who had just come down, “I want to see the core of their system.”

“Is it hacked?” the employee asked in surprise.

Cheng Liu nodded and stood by the car, holding her cell phone to call someone.

If the car company had started plotting half a year ago, it would not have failed to prepare countermeasures.

What Cheng Liu worried about was not that the technology was stolen—but that the other party was brave enough to go online without having fully tested the system.

Shenyin Technology has only dared to say that it has made major breakthroughs until now, but it has never agreed to go online. This was because the technology has not been perfected to point that it could handle all possible emergencies, and it was a real concern that if an unpredicted event occurs, it would lead to a serious accident.

… …

He Bai saw Cheng Liu’s WeChat Moments last night; she posted such content that had nothing to do with work. He guessed that it was related to Ji Chaozhou. He didn’t sleep well all night, so he came to the company early this morning.

As a result, he frowned as soon as he walked into the office. He had tidied Cheng Liu’s desk yesterday. Why was it messed up so early in the morning?

Was Cheng Liu already working?

He Bai pushed the door open and entered Cheng Liu’s office. He didn’t see the black backpack she always carried. He called Cheng Liu; no one answered.

He Bai thought for a while and went straight to the seventeenth floor.

The only project Cheng Liu was directly in charge of right now was the autonomous driving technology.

Sure enough, when He Bai arrived on the seventeenth floor, he saw a conference room with an emergency meeting notice.

An emergency meeting so early?

He Bai thought it was related to the big breakthrough in the project—he had heard about it a few days ago—so he returned to the 26th floor.

… …

“In the field of human-computer interaction, their core technology has almost completely copied ours,” an employee who had stayed up all night in the conference room said angrily. “They cooperated with our Shenyin just to steal our technology.” 

“They violated the contract agreement,” another technician said. “Even if we end our cooperation, they cannot use it directly without Shenyin’s consent.”

Cheng Liu leaned back on the chair and crossed her hands on the table; she looked calm. “It’s nothing more than introducing a scapegoat and firing that department. They are ready.” 

“It can’t be that easy. They have to pay the price.” 

“They really did this. Don’t they know that there are still flaws in the technology.”     

“Is it possible that they felt that there are no more flaws in their technology? Is their R&D center better than our Shenyin Technology?”

The conference room became noisy.

Cheng Liu hadn’t slept all night, but she was alert. She uncrossed her hands, picked up a pen next to her, raised it up and tapped it twice on the table.

All sounds in the conference room suddenly disappeared, and the employees fell silent and looked at her.

“I’m going to G City. There are some things I need to check first. You can continue your work.” Cheng Liu put down the pen after saying that, stood up, and directly left the conference room.

A minute later, Cheng Liu held a black backpack with one hand, pushed open the door of the office, and said to He Bai who was sitting there, “Book two tickets to G city, we’re going there now.”

He Bai raised his head and said ‘yes’ without asking why. He was very familiar with how Cheng Liu worked, and… this meant the two of them would have time alone again.

… …

It was only on the way to the airport that He Bai learned that Cheng Liu was going to City G to investigate the car company.

“My sister is friends with one of the major shareholders. Maybe we can inquire,” He Bai said to Cheng Liu in the backseat as he drove the car.

“Let’s go to G City first and then ask.” Cheng Liu looked down at her phone, opened WeChat, and looked at the chat window pinned on top for a long time before sending a message.

… …

When Ji Chaozhou saw the message on his phone, it was already nine o’clock. He was sitting on the edge of the swimming pool, his feet floating on the water.

The cold, white ankles were immersed in the pool, almost in the same posture as last night, except that there was one less person next to him.

He opened his phone and looked at the WeChat message.

Cheng Liu: [I have something to deal with in the company, so I won’t go back home these coming days.]

At this time, Cheng Liu was already flying to G City.

Ji Chaozhou held his cell phone and typed, typing and deleting the contents of the dialog box several times, and in the end only sent: [okay].

If It’s Wrong, Then It’s Wrong translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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