Episode 1 recap: Chu An Ge's Surprise Appointment Sparks Discontent
At the HT China Dream Series product launch event held in Jiangnan City, the Cloud Dragon system was successfully unveiled. This system, developed over five years by hundreds of engineers through repeated testing and improvement, was the highlight of the launch event. Attendees included Professor Chu Si Yuan from Dragon River University and Chairman Zheng Dao of the Qidaxing Science and Technology Group.
As the launch was about to begin, with the venue lit up and the media and guests seated, the three key product developers were expected to take the stage. However, at this critical moment, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Architect Luo Cheng Yu and Research and Development Manager Jiang Yi Fei were stuck in the city's traffic congestion, while Data Scientist Jian Dan anxiously called the Acting General Manager Ding Mu Yang to assure their timely arrival.
Seeing the time slipping away, Luo Cheng Yu abandoned his car and switched to a bicycle. Along the way, he encountered Acting Mayor Qi Dong Fang and discussed the concept of "digital city governance", piquing Qi's interest. During this time, they also encountered a pregnant woman stranded in traffic on her way to the hospital. Qi and Luo quickly organized an emergency response, with Qi coordinating with the traffic control center and Luo using big data to provide a green channel for the woman's vehicle.
Due to Luo and Jiang's absence, Deputy Director Yu Jia Ming had to take the stage alone. Just as the audience was puzzled by the missing team members, Jiang called in and requested a change in the launch plan, asking to connect to the live video feed to showcase Luo's actions in saving the pregnant woman's life.
Ultimately, the emergency vehicle arrived in time to transport the woman to the hospital. Luo and his team presented the smart transportation project, earning applause from the attendees. However, towards the end of the event, a hacker attack disrupted the system demonstration, causing concern among the media and a subsequent drop in the parent company's stock price.
Across the ocean in Silicon Valley, Brown, disregarding the dignity of the employees, insisted on transferring elder Ding Yuyang, and parachuted in HR director Chu An Ge. On the other side, Luo Cheng Yu, Jiang Yifei, and Yu Jiaming had a group dinner, celebrating the successful product launch and preparing to organize a blue team to simulate hacker mindsets and conduct multiple tests on the security system, in order to optimize and upgrade it later.
The next morning, HT China received the headquarters' appointment notice, where Ding Yuyang's identity was replaced by Chu An Ge, leaving the employees very dissatisfied. After learning about this, Luo Cheng Yu found Ding Yuyang on the rooftop, indignant about the result of Ding's years of hard work for the group being betrayed, and was not confident about handing over the company to a young woman.
Subsequently, Chu An Ge called a meeting of the senior management, announcing that Ding Yuyang would soon be promoted to HB Vice President. Ding Yuyang applied to remain in China, and if he must go to Silicon Valley, he hoped Chu An Ge could fulfill the previous promise of employee stock ownership, as it was related to the vital interests of thousands of company employees.
Chu An Ge responded that she would seriously consider it, and would carry out the strategy of Brown and Vice President Mason, urge the R&D department to conduct a self-inspection of the system, and quickly come up with a plan to respond to the market and public opinion, to prove that the system has no problems, and have Luo Cheng Yu archive the intellectual property and put the "Cloud Dragon" system into production.
Luo Cheng Yu believed that the current product was not mature enough, and opposed immediate launch. Without fixing the security system, the project could not be taken out of the laboratory. Chu An Ge refused to provide security R&D funding, and the two conflicts escalated, with Luo Cheng Yu privately insisting on R&D and sealing the "Cloud Dragon" materials.
Elder teacher Chu Siyuan summoned Luo Cheng Yu and Yu Jiaming home to lecture them, criticizing that their unfinished system had led to the hacker intrusion, and punished the two to reflect in silence. Yu Jiaming persuaded Luo Cheng Yu to consider Jiang Yifei's situation and not make unnecessary sacrifices, but Luo Cheng Yu did not take it to heart.
Aunt Chu Xizi was concerned about Jiang Yifei and Luo Cheng Yu's marriage, and Jiang Yifei said that Luo Cheng Yu had been focusing on R&D for years, causing the marriage to be delayed, but she promised to get married soon. The R&D team members worked closely together, working day and night, constantly monitoring and responding to hacker attacks, and ultimately verified the stability and security of the system through testing.
After this incident, Luo acknowledged that he should pay more attention, but his conflicts with Chu An Ge were constant, not only a clash of ideologies, but also a struggle between the pursuit of product perfection and the pressure of reality.
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