My Online Girlfriend Has a Twin Sister

"This investment project is very important. Over the past three years, their AI driving technology has shown incredible potential. Last year, they even ranked among the top five of Huaxia’s annual emerging tech companies. By all rights, a project this big shouldn’t be open for collaboration with a small company like ours."

Inside a luxurious, stretch Bentley.

Ji Hai was giving a rundown on the company they were about to visit.

He fished a tin of mints from his pocket with a RUSTLE, opened the lid, plucked one out, put it in his mouth, and continued:

"The truth is, they want to partner with Jiang Heavy Industries. In the future, they can use unmanned AI driving technology to handle energy supplies for uninhabited regions and frontline warzones, which is precisely a capability we’re missing. You see, right now, for our supply work in dangerous regions, we often have to hire locals for exorbitant pay, and it’s still hard to find anyone because the risk of death is just too high."

Ji Hai shrugged. Pei Youwen, who was sitting beside him, nodded and opened his mouth. "What’re you eating? Let me have one."

"I’ll have one, too," Chen Yuan said, also holding out his hand.

A resigned smile touched Ji Hai’s lips as he took out the tin of mints and gave one to each of them.

"Seriously, were you two even listening to me?"

"Loud and clear. Mrs. Jiang wants to send our small company in as the vanguard to do an on-site investigation."

"That’s more or less it. This AI driving tech company has already secured partnerships with major corporations like YTO Express, ZTO Express, and Huawei. The new project they want us to fund is for R&D specifically geared toward laying energy pipelines and expanding electrical grid access in remote, underdeveloped, and impoverished regions. In the future, not only can we eliminate the need for manual labor, but we can also reduce the dangers of this kind of foundational construction work... so tragedies like what happened to President Liu won’t be repeated."

"Which President Liu?"

"You wouldn’t know, Chairman Jiang. A few years ago, Mrs. Jiang sent a group of our top talents to Fei Bin to work with the local government. The goal was to improve the residents’ poor access to electricity. That place is home to a world-famous coastal shantytown—the largest slum in the world. Chairman Jiang, take a guess. How much do you think a month’s worth of electricity costs them, converted to our currency?"

"Twice as much?"

"Here, in an average city, a family of three using lights, a washing machine, a refrigerator, a TV, and various other electronics adds up to about two hundred kilowatt-hours a month. The bill for the entire year is just over a thousand. But over there, they have to pay more than a thousand for a single month."

"That’s insane!" Pei Youwen and Chen Yuan said in unison, their eyes widening in disbelief.

"Because all their local resources are monopolized by gangs and clans. Their social structure is extremely backward. Prices can be hiked arbitrarily, and as a common citizen, you have no way to fight back unless you just go without. Mrs. Jiang’s company is a world-leading energy corporation, so after reaching an agreement with the local government, we dedicated ourselves to changing this status quo. They even provided military protection. But just as the project head for Fei Bin, Liu, was preparing to personally survey a route through a lawless part of the slum, local gangs brazenly opened fire on the military... Liu was sacrificed in the crossfire."

Inside the car, the three of them fell silent.

Only Ji Hai let out a faint sigh.

For some children, being born in a dump like the Fei Bin slum was a starting hand more hellish than the ’Reborn in a vocational school toilet to a psycho e-girl mom’ meme circulating online. It was hard enough just to survive there, let alone get an education and change your destiny.

"So, when we go to investigate this project, what exactly is it we’re supposed to do?" Chen Yuan asked, suppressing the shock he felt.

"Here’s the deal, Chairman Jiang. We just need to keep detailed records and give an honest report back to headquarters. AI self-driving is a red-hot new technology right now, and there are a lot of competitors on the market with similar concepts. Partnering with any of them will be a huge investment, so we have to do our best to pick the most mature technology out of the bunch and make sure headquarters doesn’t waste its money."

The Bentley cruised down the exceptionally wide lanes of the highway. An hour had passed in conversation, and they were already more than halfway to their destination.

The three men in the car, plus Mo Nana who hadn’t come along, were the core members of Bauhinia Company.

So they could all speak freely.

Pei Youwen mulled it over for a moment before suddenly speaking:

"It’s not that I’m selfish, but there’s a world of difference when it comes to being sent abroad as a project head. An assignment in the bandit-infested Middle East is a completely different animal from an assignment in Northern Europe."

"Someone has to go," Ji Hai said, raising an eyebrow in clear disapproval.

"Minister Ji, do you have a wife and kids?" Pei Youwen asked.

"No."

"Once you do, you definitely won’t want to go. When a man reaches a certain age, his life is no longer just his own."

"The company does have a policy allowing employees with families to refuse assignments in dangerous regions," Ji Hai said with a sudden, faint smile. "So, President Pei, since you think I’m young and promising, at the perfect age to start a family, why do you suppose I’m still unmarried?"

"Because you have a terrible personality and no girl likes you."

"Piss off, don’t talk such nonsense," Ji Hai said, taking a deep breath, his gaze turning profound. "I just want the day to come when I can accept a mission from Mrs. Jiang, go to Fei Bin, and continue Liu’s unfinished work to change the future for those kids. There are titans in this world who advocate for technological equality. My dream is to break the monopoly on energy, so that every single person in the world can have equal access to it."

He finished speaking.

Pei Youwen and Chen Yuan froze, staring at each other in astonishment.

Coming from anyone else, those words might have sounded pretentious and hollow. But hearing them from Ji Hai ignited a genuine, passionate fire deep in their hearts.

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