Chapter 1

I gave up my identity as the heiress of a tech giant to spend ten years with Jack Simmons, struggling through the early days of our startup.

Finally, we developed the world's most advanced AI capable of predicting everything.

But on our wedding day, Jack, now the world's top AI engineer, fled the ceremony because NORA predicted I would betray him. The AI claimed only Rachel, his junior from college, was his lucky star who could help him achieve great success.

As guests mocked and ridiculed me, Rachel sent intimate photos of her and Jack.

"Jack said he never loved you. He only agreed to marry you because you were so clingy," Rachel texted.

I immediately blocked them both, broke up with Jack, and kicked him out of the company.

Later, when he discovered my true identity as the world's richest heiress, his eyes turned red with regret...

He knelt before me, begging me not to leave him.

"Lily Greene, so your husband ran away from the wedding to cuddle with another woman?"

On the hillside dotted with luxury vacation villas, the guests who had received the news focused their attention on me like ultraviolet rays. My gaze, however, was fixed on a spot at the foot of the hill that no one else seemed to notice.

There stood my groom, Jack Simmons, intimately embracing another woman.

Just fifteen minutes ago, he had been standing beside me, holding my hand, ready to complete the ceremony.

As the ring was about to be placed on my finger, a phone rang.

Jack looked down at his phone amid the puzzled gazes of the guests. The next second, he ran down the hill.

"Lily, Rachel says NORA has predicted the outcome of our marriage. NORA says..."

"You will eventually betray me."

"And my destiny is Rachel. With her, I'll become the world's richest man."

Leaving me with these words, he turned and left, abandoning me to face all the ridicule alone.

Within minutes, everyone received the news of Jack's whereabouts.

He had abandoned me, his new bride, and was now drinking with another woman in the hills.

Jack held Rachel tightly in his arms, and in the heat of the moment, kissed her.

In an instant, all the memories of the past and the sudden loss exploded in my mind, shattering and raging.

Then, my gaze instantly dimmed, like a star fading after burning out.

My expression was caught by the guests, who gasped and couldn't help but show their disdain.

"Isn't that today's groom? Why is he kissing another woman?"

"It seems that even the rich and powerful Miss Greene, who carefully chose a genius developer, can't escape being cheated on."

There was silence as someone hesitated, noticing my blank stare.

"Should we go call him back?"

"Forget it. He'd rather cuddle in front of the bride than come back to finish the ceremony. He clearly doesn't love her."

"Let's go. What's there to see in a clown's wedding?"

The cool mountain breeze stirred by the departing crowd sucked away all the warmth from my body.

My body was chilled, and so was my heart.

I don't know how long I sat in the empty wedding venue before I finally got up and walked to my car at the bottom of the hill.

Just as I closed the car door and was about to start the engine, I heard footsteps.

Jack had caught up, casually opened the passenger door, and sat down.

Our eyes met, and he took my hand, putting on a coy act.

"I'm sorry, Lily. I just went to verify the data with Rachel."

Verify the data? Did that require kissing an intern?

And had he forgotten that before he was hailed as the world's top AI engineer...

At fourteen, I had graced the cover of Time magazine for my AI research. It was my fascination with his passion for AI that had attracted me and led me to start this company specifically for him.

My heart was utterly exhausted, and I was too tired to expose his lies.

Seeing my expression, Jack finally reacted: "You saw everything just now?"

"Yes."

"Alright, why that expression? It's not like Rachel just called me for a drink. No need to look like that. I'll make it up to you with another wedding later."

Another wedding?

"If the results are already out, why do you still want to have a wedding with me?"

With no emotion in my voice, I slowly withdrew my hand from Jack's. In the past, I would have argued hysterically, reminding him that I had developed the first half of NORA.

I knew better than anyone whether NORA would make such a prediction.

But now, I was tired. I didn't want to argue anymore. I just wanted to end this relationship with Jack.

"What do you mean you don't need it? What are you upset about now? I'll definitely do what I promised you!"

Jack angrily retorted:

"Yes, the prediction says you'll definitely cheat on me."

"But who am I? The world's top AI engineer. Do you think I'd believe that so easily? Besides..."

Jack looked at me, a smile playing on his lips, his tone certain: "You can't live without me, can you? So I had to come back."

A bitter taste spread on my tongue. I forced a smile:

"Well, I should really thank you then."

He glanced at me, hesitated, then continued.

"However, you need to apologize to Rachel for questioning the data and her earlier."

At that moment, anger surged in my heart.

No wonder he, who always believed unquestioningly in AI data, said he wouldn't easily believe it.

I said coldly, "Jack Simmons, after doing such a dirty thing right in front of me, why should I apologize?"

"And...!"

I got up, opened the car door, and threw the keys at him.

Then I said to him, word by word: "You know how I've treated you all these years. Don't you understand at all why this baseless prediction came about?"

Jack's face flashed with discomfort, quickly replaced by anger.

"Lily Greene! Can you stop making things up?!"

"I've told you so many times that Rachel is just my junior. Are you so dirty-minded that you see everyone else as dirty?!"

"NORA can't be wrong! It's never been wrong! If you don't apologize, forget about this wedding! I won't give you another chance!"

"We'll see if you regret it when I become the world's richest man!"

I coldly watched his angry outburst, feeling a weariness I had never experienced before.

It seemed he had truly forgotten that when we got together, I had given him the newborn AI NORA and told him that AI shouldn't be blindly trusted, as there was a risk of human intervention.

And his talk about becoming the world's richest man? Saying I shouldn't regret it?

Jack Simmons, my Greene family has long been the world's richest. What you fantasize about was within my reach from birth.

Laughing weakly, I threw my ring down the cliff.

After meeting Jack's shocked gaze, I turned and got into another car.

As I started the engine, I heard him throwing a tantrum behind me.

"Lily Greene, don't you dare come back crying and begging me to marry you!"

"I knew my NORA couldn't be wrong. A woman like you is just fickle and bound to betray me!!"

I stepped on the gas and drove away.

Never again, Jack Simmons.

I've done enough foolish things.

This time, I'm truly exhausted.