Penthouse, Fairchild Twin Towers.
Bradley had spent the entire night on the observatory deck, gazing out at the city lights.
Suddenly, his phone rang. The voice on the other end was crisp and urgent. “Mr. Fairchild, all three of Heston’s major media platforms have been hit by hackers. They’ve been down for three hours straight.”
Bradley’s eyes narrowed.
Someone had managed to bring down Heston’s top-tier engineering teams, leaving them utterly defeated?
“Keep this under the radar,” he ordered.
After hanging up, Bradley murmured to himself, “Lotty, was this your doing?”
—
Morning light filtered through the curtains as Charlotte woke up, stretching stiffly in bed.
A sudden thought hit her—she’d forgotten to turn off her automated program last night. That meant her code had been weighing down every major media platform in the city for hours…
She reached over to her nightstand, pressed a button on her laptop, and finally shut the program down.
Across the city, exhausted server engineers—who’d been working overtime all night—were finally clocking out.
At last…dawn had come.
“I wonder who was foolish enough to provoke someone at that level. My son’s a top-tier software engineer, and even he couldn’t crack that code after an all-nighter!”
Charlotte arrived at the Astra R&D Center just in time to overhear the head of logistics regaling a group with animated gossip.
“If I ever ran into someone like that, I’d worship them like a saint! Who’d dare cross her? You’d have to be out of your mind!”
Charlotte kept her head down, quietly passing by, when suddenly the head of logistics approached, barely masking her schadenfreude. “Ms. Lee, you have a delivery.”
A package? Charlotte reached out to accept it, but when she looked inside, her blood ran cold—a model of a womb, smeared with red paint to resemble dripping blood.
A label was stuck to the bottom: [Heartless monster who abandoned her own child—may your womb rot in hell!]
The head of logistics gave a tight-lipped smile. “Ms. Lee, your remarriage to Mr. Fairchild and your supposed indifference towards your son are all over the internet. Honestly, it’s no surprise if some netizen sent you something like this. Try not to take it personally.”
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