"After you graduated, the bustling scene you had imagined never appeared. Nearly every corporate conglomerate put a genius like you on their talent blacklist.
"The reason was simple enough. You had performed too brilliantly at the academy, crushing those second- and third-generation heirs until they could not lift their heads."
When Melinda reached this point, Chen Cheng interrupted her.
"Forget that for now. Logically speaking, if I was that outstanding, then even if I suppressed their Lineage descendants, they must have had daughters or something, right? Did it never occur to them to recruit me as a live-in son-in-law?
"Wouldn't that mean a talent like me would be working for them?"
Chen Cheng did not care at all about the experiences Melinda had described concerning someone with his name. What he cared about was the logic in her account. After all, he only wanted to understand this world, not listen to some brainless power fantasy with a protagonist who happened to share his name.
After hearing Chen Cheng's words, Melinda's expression became exceedingly strange. Looking into her beautiful eyes, Chen Cheng somehow felt a little uneasy.
"What's wrong? Is there some flaw in my reasoning? Those corporate dynasties have stood firm for so long; they can't possibly be that shortsighted. All it would take was one woman from the Lineage to win the loyalty of a super genius. Could they really fail to calculate such a bargain?"
After realizing this was a technological world, Chen Cheng felt that technical talent was undoubtedly its most precious resource. Therefore, his line of thought could not exactly be called wild fancy.
Yet Melinda spoke coldly.
"Don't you know that after the Epoch, the system reclaimed everyone's right to choose a spouse? Everyone's partner could only be matched under the system's supervision.
"Otherwise, you