Lin Yi, a tech genius, is ousted from Lingyue, the company he founded, by his partner Zhao Ziang in collusion with investors. He takes his core team to launch a brand-new venture.
With 2 million yuan in startup capital raised by selling his house, he develops Lingjing, a groundbreaking digital human system boasting a rendering latency of merely 0.09 seconds, granting his new firm an overwhelming technological advantage.
By contrast, after Zhao Ziang appoints an incompetent person to head the tech department at Lingyue, the entire system collapses. Digital humans go haywire in clients’ live streams, pushing the company to the brink of bankruptcy.
Zhao Ziang first visits Lin Yi with a hefty sum of money to beg him to return, only to be turned down flatly. Later, he brings reporters along and delivers a remorseful apology intended to morally blackmail Lin Yi, who immediately exposes his hypocrisy and shames him on the spot.
In the end, investors pull out all funding and sue Zhao Ziang for commercial fraud. Lingyue crumbles completely. Meanwhile, Lin Yi and his team celebrate their new beginning amid the bubbling broth of a hot pot feast.
