Chapter 9 — The whole company flew to France, but I alone did not have a plane ticket

But he doesn't know. I was in a much higher stratosphere. Right from the start. I never intended to get bogged down in this rotten mire. Even less interested in participating in the game of competing for power with him. I don't wait for him to make a move. I am silently preparing. For him. As well as for yourself. A much bigger surprise. He wanted to cross the bridge to escape. I want to kill the donkey after I finish grinding the mill. I will make him lose more than his donkey. But even the donkey stable... I can't keep it. Chairman Co acted very quickly. Less than half a month later, a "top-level" technical team that he spent a large amount of money to hunt from Silicon Valley loudly joined the company. The leader is a doctor named Ly. His resume is filled with flashy titles. It is said that he used to be the chief architect of a famous international technology corporation. To welcome this team, Chairman Co also personally organized a high-level meeting. In the meeting room. He smiled brightly and introduced Dr. Ly and his team. Then publicly declared:

“Dr. Ly's team will support Technical Director Hua An Nhien to conduct a comprehensive upgrade and optimization of the company's core systems.”

The word "support" was emphasized very strongly by him. Everyone present understood. This is not support. It's a takeover. A blatant power grab. Throughout the entire meeting. I didn't say a word. Just calmly sat at the other end of the long table. Look at Chairman Co and Dr. Ly juggling with each other. It was like watching an awkward third-rate play. Dr. Ly is extremely arrogant. During the speech. He almost never looked directly at me. With a lofty tone, he declared:

“There is no system in the world that can hide secrets from me.”

He even made a strong commitment. Within a month. He will build a completely new architecture. More secure. More efficient. And enough to completely replace the "old, weak" system I am using. After the meeting. It's a technical handover session. In my office. Dr. Ly brought along two core members. Sit down leisurely.

“Director Hua.”

He called me both my first and last name. There was no hidden contempt in his voice.

“Please hand over all documents of the Sunset system.”

“Along with your so-called private key.”

I looked at him. Suddenly burst out laughing.

“Dr. Ly.”

“Documents I can give.”

“But the private key is not.”

His expression immediately darkened.

“Hua An Nhien.”

“What do you mean?”

“Without private keys, how can we optimize the core layer?”

“You are hindering the company's development!”

I shook my head.

“I'm protecting the company's assets.”

“My system is sick clean.”

“It doesn't like being touched casually by people who don't understand it.”

I then sent him a set of processed documents. Only the basic architecture and API documentation remain.

“This is all you need.”

“I believe that with the capacity of Dr. Ly's team...”

“It shouldn't be difficult to understand these things.”

Dr. Ly was so angry that his face turned blue. But I couldn't find a reason to get angry. In name anyway. I'm the new Technical Director. In the end, he could only lead people away in anger. Throughout the next week according to. The entire technical room was immersed in an extremely strange atmosphere. Dr. Ly's team occupies the best meeting room. Every day, I come in and out like there's no one there. Show off all kinds of things. But everyone sees it. Their progress is very bad. Work all week long. They haven't even drawn a complete architectural diagram of the Sunset system. Because that system... Is a huge and sophisticated maze. If there is no direct designer to guide the way. Outsiders entering can only get lost. Dr. Ly was clearly very impatient. He wanted to prove his ability in front of Chairman Co. When you still don't fully understand the system logic. He decided to modify a module that he thought was the simplest. User login module. He wants to replace the current encryption algorithm with a “more advanced” algorithm. And disaster happened right then. Friday afternoon. Peak hours for online users. Dr. Ly's team officially submitted the new source code.