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    As the project director, Lance bore the weight of the entire Al R&D team’s failures on his shoulders, stress radiating from every tense muscle in his body. He hunched over hisputer like a man possessed, fingers dancing frantically across the keyboard as he cycled through solution after solution.


    The rest of the team formed a tight circle around him, their voices weaving together in nervous whispers about potential fixes.


    “‘This bug has haunted us since the earliest design stages. We discovered it now, at the final hour. Fixing it won’t be a walk in the park.”


    “‘Challenging or not, we must crack this code or watch everything we’ve built crumble into dust!”


    “‘Everyone understands the stakes, but here’s the brutal truth—nobody has the faintest idea how to tackle this monster. Theplexity is staggering!”


    Elliana absorbed every word of their frantic chatter from the sidelines. She glided closer and positioned herself behind the group, watching the pandemonium unfold with quiet fascination. The Seek project had never captured her attention before, but the whisper of a major bug ignited something fierce within her. She thrived on wrestling with impossible puzzles.


    So, Elliana nted herself there inplete silence, observing every desperate gesture for thirty uninterrupted minutes. Not one soul registered her presence.


    At the room’s epicenter, Lance teetered on the edge of aplete breakdown, his mind grasping for solutions that remained maddeningly out of reach.


    Emmanuel’s voice suddenly thundered across the space as he swept in with several senior executives trailing behind him. “‘What chaos is this?” Every head swiveled toward the entrance. That’s when Lance’s gaze finallynded on Elliana’s still figure. His expression transformed into something dark and menacing.


    “‘Elliana, who granted you permission into this ce?”


    Elliana met his re with casual indifference. “‘Didn’t I mention over lunch that I’d swing by this afternoon? What’s got you so worked up?”


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    “‘You actually dared to show up here?” Lance’s mood had already soured beyond repair. His frustration erupted like a volcano at her presence. “‘How long have you been lurking? What did you witness?”


    “‘I’ve been standing here for roughly thirty minutes,” Elliana replied with ice-coldposure. She studied him with a smirk, each word calcted to pierce straight through his armor. “I witnessed everything—what I was meant to see and what I wasn’t. The project that devoured twenty billion of thepany’s…”


    Fortune has a fatal weakness running through its core. Sadly, none of the employees here possess the skill to repair it. You’re about to be the industry’s favorite cautionary tale.”


    “You!” Lance thrust his finger toward the Al R&D Department’s exit, his voice booming with rage. “Disappear! You’re not wee here!”


    Before Elliana could respond, Emmanuel surged forward and pped Lance across the face. “You fool! Is this how you address your cousin’s wife?”


    The humiliation of being struck in front of the crowd washed over Lance like a tidal wave. Already drowning in frustration, he discarded all diplomatic restraint. “Dad, do you see what’s happening here? The Al R&D Department is inplete chaos, and this ugly woman shows up just to taunt us. Why shouldn’t I demand her removal?”


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