Isabel “Eden" Lin adjusted the cuff of her tailored ivory blazer as she stepped into the glass-paneled atrium of Harbor City's Global Energy Summit. The room buzzed with conversation: steel magnates, tech entrepreneurs, and government officials milled beneath banners proclaiming “Powering Tomorrow." Eden's pulse thrummed to the pace of whispered deals forming like electrical currents in the air.
At the registration desk, a placard read:
**Eden Lin**
*Founder & CEO, Titan Venture Partners*
*Keynote Panelist, “Next‑Gen Energy Alliances"*
She nodded to the young aide handing her a lanyard and entered the main hall, scanning the crowd for her target: Azure Utilities, the Hart Group's flagship energy arm. Leon Hart—her enigmatic rival and reluctant ally—had secured a prime seat on the pane
