Isla was even crazier than Ezra. Watching me rise to fame and success, jealousy gnawed at her heart like a venomous snake. She raged, "How dare she live so well?! How dare she climb to the top over our corpses?!" She bought an army of bots and dummy accounts and started spreading wild rumors online. The post read: Exposing the so-called AI blogger Maren! Under the guise of charity, she secretly colludes with overseas hackers to steal private data from domestic users for profit! She's a traitor! Fabricated chat records and forged code screenshots spread like wildfire online. Nathan sent these to me immediately. He asked, "We've tracked the IP. Want me to call the police and have her arrested?" I stood before the floor-to-ceiling window, watching the traffic below, and let out a col

