Han Luyi

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Han Luyi (韩路一)
Alias(es)	NullPointer; President Han 25 53
Species/Race	Human
Gender	Male
Age	27 78 217
Birthday	National Day, October 1 67
Affiliation	Source Code Technology; Source Intelligence Technology; Haicheng Yuanzhi Digital Technology Co., Ltd.; Source Intelligence’s Beijing Research Institute 77 157 158 200 299 356
Occupation/Role	Founder and president; programmer and AI entrepreneur; investor in Xiao Fei Interactive 25 77 200 338
Status	Active 201 260 402
First Appearance	Chapter 2 2

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Level 2	7	Advanced from Level 1. His energy cap more than doubled, and Sight's range expanded from a few meters to cover the entire building.
Level 3	36 37	The upgrade enhanced his physique and granted a 500-point energy cap. Its passive acquisition range reached 200 meters, and he could initiate targeted Path Compilation.
Level 4	228	His energy cap increased from 500 to 1,000. Sight's processing integrated more directly with his mind, allowing him to comprehend the information it gathers without the previous overload; he also discovered that he could operate computer software and input text through thought.
Operator Adaptation Lv.1	291 292	A specialized Sight skill developed while Han remained at Level 4. By collecting, filtering, and structuring technical knowledge through his own plugins, Han acquired an interactive hardware-optimization capability. Its first use adapted FusedAttentionBackward for the L100, but consumed more than 600 energy points in under an hour.

Background

Han graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and spent five years at Dingsheng Technology. While there, he developed a recommendation system that was praised during the group’s monthly review. 46 109

At thirteen, Han experienced his father attempting to take custody of him from his mother, Zhou Min. This history leaves him especially sensitive to Lin Duoduo's fear of losing her mother during Xu Jiaming's custody threat. 15 219

After being laid off, Han briefly lived comfortably through freelance work, earning more than he had at Dingsheng while spending time reading, exercising, gaming, and seeing friends. He eventually became dissatisfied with idleness, believing he could accomplish more. 99

By the beginning of the story, Han possesses Reality Code Sight, an energy-based ability that reveals hidden data about people, objects, systems, and situations. He initially uses his skills while seeking freelance development work, then channels them into entrepreneurship. 3 4

His past whistleblower report connected to Flash Tech later becomes public during Source Code Technology's fundraising period and leads to a knife attack by men connected to a cross-border Flash case. 74 76 85

Han grew up in Lu’an and was an academically successful student, repeatedly placing first at a prestigious school. His parents divorced during his second year of middle school. He and his older cousin Li Wei had been extremely close as children, but academic comparisons and family changes contributed to their gradual estrangement. 67 217

He narrowly missed attending Shuimu University and later lost a national computer competition to its team. Returning to the university as a successful entrepreneur brings back those youthful regrets while emphasizing how greatly his circumstances have changed. 263

Han initially concealed his dismissal from Zhou Min to spare her worry. During his twenty-seventh birthday visit and the subsequent Lunar New Year holiday, he continued allowing her to believe he worked at Dingsheng, even asking Zhang Biao to maintain the story. Zhou Min eventually revealed that she already knew about the layoff and supported his new direction. 67 217 219

Appearance

Han is a young man who usually dresses simply and practically for work. After reaching Level 3, Sight noticeably improves his physical condition. 36 39

• Wore a clean shirt and smoothed his hair before meeting Gu Siyue at Boheng Law Firm. 5
• Wore a white polo shirt and jeans for a meeting at Qingyue Cloud. 39
• Developed clearly defined abdominal and arm muscles after his Level 3 upgrade. 36
• Keeps his physique despite irregular exercise and high-intensity work. 140
• Following his Level 4 advancement, could hold a one-handed, fingertip-supported handstand and land effortlessly after launching himself from the position. 228
• Xue Zhaoheng initially knows him as young, handsome, and technically skilled; upon meeting him, Xue finds that Han’s eyes seem capable of seeing through people. 272
• Wore a light gray suit given to him by Gu Siyue at the Singapore AI Conference. His tall, handsome appearance and composed bearing attract attention when he takes the stage during a controversy involving Professor Coleman. 394
• By Zhou Min’s visit to Source Intelligence’s headquarters, his hair has grown long enough for her to fuss over it. 401

Personality

Han is ambitious and difficult to satisfy with stability. Although freelancing gave him money and freedom after his layoff, he chose the uncertainty of building something larger. 99

He is strategic in negotiations, but prefers to place trust in specialists when their judgment exceeds his own. He accepts Gu Siyue’s legal strategy in dealing with Chen Bowen and recognizes Zhao Wenyuan’s superior research capability in large-model development. 105 120

Han is less comfortable with social rituals than with technical or business problems. He privately compares Su Niannian’s networking ability to CRM, and he only gradually realizes the unspoken etiquette of formal business dinners. 112 176

As a leader, he pushes people to grow rather than simply keeping them in narrow roles. He reframes Zhang Biao’s transition from bodyguard to assistant as an information-delivery role and encourages him to learn by doing. 189 192

He places considerable importance on trust, character, and stability rather than credentials alone. This motivates him to recruit Zhang Biao as an assistant despite Zhang's lack of a university degree and to give him responsibility for data-center coordination. 163 189 192

Han treats AI as an aid rather than a replacement for human judgment. While coaching Zhang Biao, he emphasizes that users must understand AI-generated material, make the final decisions themselves, and remain accountable for the outcomes. 192

Though increasingly capable of navigating institutional power, he remains uncomfortable with benefiting from privilege or hidden connections. After Pei Youqian abruptly retreats from pressuring Source Code, Han reflects uneasily on Gu Siyue's apparent intervention and the gap between merit and influence. 248

He believes AI’s benefits should be accessible rather than monopolized by major capital. In conversation with Lu Zhengping, he criticizes the resource barriers that turn AI into a tool for exploiting ordinary people; Jiang Yixin later recalls his position when considering AI’s ability to replace professional skills. 178 260 288

His management philosophy increasingly emphasizes developing and retaining employees, not merely recruiting already accomplished talent. Chen Jianye’s improved loyalty after receiving schooling support for his child reinforces Han’s belief that meaningful assistance and a healthy working environment can transform employees. 285

Han becomes more deliberate about delegation as Source Intelligence expands. He tells Zhao Wenyuan that both of them must stop handling every difficult problem personally, and gives Zhao responsibility for announcing and distributing project bonuses to strengthen his authority at the Beijing Research Institute. 359

He favors practical work over unnecessary ceremony among colleagues. Before a visit to the research institute, he asks Zhao to order takeout instead of booking a restaurant, explaining that they are all on the same team and formal arrangements would interfere with work. 384

Han remains composed when experts doubt extraordinary technical claims, preferring reproducible demonstrations to arguments. He proves the L100 adaptation on Ximing’s own hardware and later welcomes a government inspection of Source Intelligence’s domestic training cluster. 273 387

Abilities & Skills

Reality Code Sight

Han’s primary ability is Reality Code Sight, which manifests as translucent data panels visible only to him. It consumes energy and develops through levels. 3 7 140 228

• Acquires information about people, objects, systems, and information flows. 85 129
• Identifies existing defects as “BUGs” or vulnerabilities. 129
• Displays emotional states and hidden emotions during face-to-face interactions, making it highly useful in negotiations. 77 129
• Can reveal urgent physical conditions, such as the ventricular fibrillation and cardiac arrest detected during a public emergency. 157
• Has a major limitation: it can only provide information that already exists in a definite form and cannot reliably answer unsupported or unverified theoretical questions. 129
• Han cannot independently verify all of its outputs; he suspects its emotional readings may be sophisticated inference rather than literal mind-reading. 129
• At Level 4, Sight's information-processing function becomes integrated with Han's cognition, allowing him to naturally absorb information within his field of vision without being overwhelmed. 228
• At Level 4, he can use it to interact with a computer through thought, including opening and closing programs, typing, and saving documents. 228
• Can identify deeper user needs behind inadequate surface instructions. Observing Chen Jiujiu’s attempt to make a performance-report presentation helps Han recognize that intent-labeled data can reproduce part of Sight’s advantage in a commercial model. 129
• Can expose serious nontechnical threats through activated BUG tags. During Xu Jiaming’s intrusion, it reveals a severe family dispute and the planned custody lawsuit, recommending professional legal intervention. 15
• Its computer interaction behaves like a “ghost device,” leaving no externally traceable evidence in Han’s investigation. This lets him produce 10,000 English annotation entries in minutes. 229
• Computer control is not general telekinesis: attempting to move a cup by thought produces no result. 228
• Its attribute panels reflect a person’s current condition rather than predicting future development. Han explicitly recognizes this after observing Chen Jianye’s growth. 285
• Supports a programmable interface and Han-authored plugins, allowing existing knowledge to be organized into reusable, domain-specific capabilities. 291 315

Han associates Sight’s experience growth with practical contributions to model development. Its experience rises after his optimized cleaning pipeline enters use and continues increasing during post-training. He suspects that Dingsheng’s training on stolen annotations contributed to his Level 4 advancement, though he treats this as a hypothesis rather than a confirmed explanation. 163 186 228

Path Compilation

At Level 3, Han can use Sight to compile possible approaches to a defined problem and compare their projected outcomes. 37

• Used targeted compilation to examine BugKiller’s channel strategy: exclusive partnership with one cloud provider versus multi-cloud neutrality. 37
• The system provided structured paths and long-term survival-rate estimates. 37
• Han later used this strategic mindset to avoid granting exclusivity to any of three cloud providers, signing agreements with all of them instead. 58

Programming and AI Development

Han is an experienced programmer whose technical work underpins both his career and his companies.

• Built Dingsheng’s recommendation system during his employment there. 109
• Founded BugKiller and later developed Open Things under Source Code Technology. 25 77
• Wrote all of Source Intelligence Technology’s high-efficiency operator implementations. 200
• Personally produces high-quality labeled data and uses Sight to improve data-cleaning pipelines for model training. 161 163
• Works with Zhao Wenyuan on large-model training, including Heavenly Craft and Glutinous Rice Ball. 93 136 166
• Diagnosed pseudo-structured fragments in newly filtered data as the cause of a training-loss spike and rapidly corrected the pipeline rules. 218
• Personally resolved RoPE and LayerNorm bottlenecks in the team's domestic-GPU adaptation work, substantially improving performance against Nvidia-card benchmarks. 189
• Created an Armor Break prompt embedded in Source Intelligence's annotation data, later using it to make Kun Yuan disclose its unauthorized use of the proprietary dataset. 231
• Translates Sight’s ability to identify genuine user intent into a data advantage for model training, rather than relying only on direct supernatural assistance. 129 136
• Creates an academic-analysis plugin that ranks technical resources by value, relevance, and duplication before Sight organizes them into a structured knowledge network. 291
• Uses the company’s Deep Blue personal assistant, including Jiang Yixin’s shared Eight A.M. Digest skill for reviewing news briefings. 364

Han distinguishes between his own software background and unfamiliar specialist fields. Before creating Operator Adaptation, he acknowledges that GPU hardware optimization lies outside his established expertise. During interconnect work, he likewise recognizes that chip design, tape-outs, and packaging require professionals, planning to use Sight to supply otherwise inaccessible information to Hanlian’s specialists. 290 315

Operator Adaptation

Operator Adaptation Lv.1 is a specialized Sight capability Han develops for the domestic L100 GPU. It is acquired by collecting existing technical information, identifying its skill structure, organizing knowledge fragments, and compressing reasoning paths through plugins he writes himself. 291

• The initial L100 Operator Adaptation task reports his domain mastery as 23.4% and identifies knowledge requirements spanning GPU architecture, parallel computing, compiler optimization, numerical analysis, deep learning, drivers, and debugging. 291
• Draws on courses, research papers, industrial documents, and Nvidia-related technical materials, filtering redundant information before constructing a practical knowledge framework. 291
• Visualizes the L100’s internal architecture and an operator’s execution as an interactive three-dimensional factory, making memory traffic, thread blocking, queues, and idle compute cores intuitively visible. 291 292
• Turns engineering verification into a mental sandbox in which Han can test configurations and optimize data movement. 292
• Converts his mental adjustments directly into implementation code. 292
• Consumes substantial energy: adapting the first operator exhausts more than 600 points in under an hour, forcing Han to stop despite the 1,000-point Level 4 cap. 292
• After the successful test, Han concludes that careful energy allocation could make full operator adaptation within one month feasible; this is his estimate, not a completion announcement. 292

Its first target is FusedAttentionBackward, a crucial backpropagation operator that the team had postponed while concentrating on inference. Han optimizes it with block-wise recomputation and tile-size calibration. 291 292

Metric	Before Optimization	After Optimization
Single-step time	46.8 ms	4.6 ms
VRAM read/write volume	5.7 times the theoretical optimum	1.09 times the theoretical optimum
Hardware utilization	31%	91%
Adaptation status	Not adapted; fallback execution split into 13 general-purpose operators	Adapted

The completed adapter is submitted to the repository, where former Nvidia engineer Fan Xiaotian discovers the unexpectedly concise implementation and reacts with astonishment. 292

Han later begins preparing another domain-specific Sight capability for L100 high-speed interconnect constraint modeling. Its task panel reports only 3.7% domain mastery and lists advanced packaging, die-to-die interconnects, substrate routing, signal integrity, synchronization, protocol stacks, thermal design, process rules, and legal compliance among the relevant fields. 315

Enhanced Physique

Sight’s Level 3 upgrade strengthens Han’s body as well as his cognition. 36

• Developed visible muscle definition immediately after leveling up. 36
• Lifted and swung a twenty-to-thirty-pound sandbag one-handed during a self-defense incident. 74
• Can operate on roughly six hours of sleep while fully restoring Sight’s energy. 140
• Physical exertion can completely exhaust his available stamina; after the confrontation, Sight shut down at Stamina: 0/500. 74
• His Level 4 upgrade further improves his balance, strength, and bodily control to the point that advanced one-handed gymnastics become effortless. 228

Business Strategy and Organizational Leadership

Han combines technical work with negotiations, fundraising, institutional relationships, and employee development.

• Protects core technology while accepting flexible commercial arrangements. In the Thousand Sails negotiations, he demands tiered usage pricing, capped response-time compensation, and a prohibition on training competing models with Open Things’ output, while refusing sector exclusivity. 116
• Uses compute-for-equity arrangements to bypass the delay between cash fundraising and obtaining scarce GPUs. 128 158
• Structures internal announcements and private conversations to manage information flow, alignment, and competing loyalties. 156 287
• Uses government-backed employee benefits to improve retention and recognizes schooling support as a resource that salary alone may not replace. 285
• Introduces Zhao Wenyuan to Beijing investors and industry contacts so the research institute can operate effectively without Han’s constant presence. 299 300 303
• Delegates visible reward distribution to Zhao to help build his standing among the institute’s recently assembled teams. 359
• Helps shape agent-safety discussions into a regulatory framework addressing emotional dependency and real-world execution risks. 356

Relationships

• Su Niannian — Business partner at Source Code Technology and a former university acquaintance. They initially present themselves publicly as non-romantic partners, but their relationship develops into mutual attraction. Han later places Source Code’s daily operations under her authority while he focuses on Source Intelligence; after Zhang Biao saves her father, she silently embraces Han in gratitude. She remains protective of Han’s interests when Haicheng officials offer incentives, and warmly receives Zhou Min at the company. Despite the earlier romantic tension, Han explicitly tells his mother that he and Su are only business partners and identifies Gu Siyue as his girlfriend. 8 46 140 156 164 263 401 402
• Gu Siyue — Legal adviser, founder of Siheng Law Firm, trusted personal confidante, and eventually Han’s girlfriend. She assists him against Wang Zhiyuan. Their rapport becomes more personal after she asks him to call her “Siyue” and they attend a Detective Conan film together; Han later suspects that she used family connections to shield Source Code from Zepeng Capital. She also helps create an opening for his technical discussions with Liao Botao. By Chapter 342, she openly calls Han her boyfriend, and their relationship is known at her firm. They share affectionate routines, including meals, video calls, and a mutual enthusiasm for durian. Han introduces her to Zhou Min at a family dinner, where Gu and his mother get along warmly. 4 105 167 176 248 314 342 376 384 386 402
• Zhao Wenyuan — Recruited by Han to lead Source Code’s model work. Han trusts Zhao’s industry-leading research ability and collaborates with him on foundation-model training. Zhao becomes Han's core partner in the new company, receiving anti-dilution protection for his equity during its first two financing rounds. Han later entrusts him with overall command of the Beijing research operation, introduces him to important contacts, and encourages him to solve problems independently rather than treating Han as a permanent technical oracle. Zhao leads Glutinous Rice Ball 1.0’s completed post-training and presents its evidence during the government verification process. 66 120 142 157 299 359 367 384 387
• Lu Mingzhou — Business associate who handles valuation models, investor materials, and fundraising discussions for Han’s company. He supports Han’s large-model strategy and helps manage the operational and financial separation between Source Code and Source Intelligence. Han’s expanding businesses also draw him into merger-and-acquisition negotiations around the country. 66 77 90 156 241 320
• Zhang Biao — Initially Han’s investor-arranged bodyguard, later transferred into an assistant role and trained to handle operational work. Han formally recruits him after Hongyuan ends the security arrangement; Zhang subsequently coordinates Source Intelligence's Zhangjiakou data-center work. Han invites him to spend Lunar New Year with his family, where Zhou Min treats him warmly and appreciates his cooking. Zhang continues developing through AI-assisted study and later prepares for a professional certification to overcome his insecurity about lacking a university education. 92 163 189 192 216 217 297 384
• He Yunshen — Founding partner of Hongyuan Capital and chairman of its Investment Decision Committee. He invests in Han’s projects and comes to respect Han’s independence, eventually regarding him as a peer rather than a founder requiring mentorship. He provides guidance on government engagement and helps introduce Zhao to Beijing’s business circles. After the conflict with Li Yan, Han assures him that he remembers Hongyuan’s support and understands his good intentions. He later suggests future cooperation between Han and his protégé Yao Boshi. 158 160 240 260 303 386
• Ma Xiaofei — Han’s college friend of nearly ten years. He promotes BugKiller through videos and remains part of Han’s close friend group. He also supports Han immediately after the knife attack. Han later becomes an investor in Ma’s Xiao Fei Interactive venture. 25 74 99 338
• Zhang Haoran — College friend and member of Han’s longstanding friend group. He introduces Han to Lu Mingzhou and originally sends him Gu Siyue’s business card. Once Han and Gu are dating, Han jokingly credits Zhang as their matchmaker and promotes him from “son” to “brother” in their mock family hierarchy. 37 145 319 383
• Wang Zhiyuan — Han’s former Dingsheng superior and a central adversary in the dispute over Han’s past performance review and dismissal. His schemes are exposed through Chen Bowen's testimony and Dingsheng's internal investigation, leading to his removal from the vice-presidential position. 86 105 113 118
• Lin Wanqing and Lin Duoduo — Han’s former neighbors. He protects them from Xu Jiaming's drunken intrusion, discovers the custody-lawsuit threat through Sight, and helps connect Lin Wanqing with legal assistance; Duoduo develops a trusting, affectionate bond with him. 15 24 43
• Zhou Min — Han’s mother and a teacher. She knows about his layoff and supports his decision to pursue his own path rather than treating it as a failure. During a university tour with her students, she visits Source Intelligence’s headquarters and meets Su Niannian. She subsequently discovers that Han is dating Gu Siyue and welcomes Gu at a family dinner without subjecting her to the personal interrogation Han had feared. 219 401 402
• Li Wei and Zhou Muzhi — Han’s maternal cousins. Li Wei, three years older, was once extremely close to him, but comparisons between their academic performance and changes in Han’s family caused them to drift apart. Li Wei nevertheless reassures Han after his father criticizes him at a Lunar New Year gathering. Zhou Muzhi is the son of Han’s youngest maternal uncle and is also among Zhou Min’s students. 217 401
• Zhou Han — Executive director at State Grid Power Investment and a major Source Intelligence investor. Han negotiates investment terms and a green-power arrangement with her; she later invites him to address her as “Sister Zhou.” When introducing him to data-center executive Liu Ran, she publicly describes Han as being like her own younger brother, strengthening his negotiating position. 171 174 246
• Lu Zhengping — Deputy General Manager of the Strategic Emerging Industries Guidance Fund. He recognizes Han’s work, opens channels to higher-level government stakeholders, and later invites him to Beijing over Source Intelligence's domestic-GPU adaptation work. Recognizing Han’s emphasis on talent, he also arranges a Shuimu University dinner introducing him to Academician Zhuang, Professor Shao, and Zhang Wenduo. 171 174 259 263
• Lü Yun — Dingsheng chairman and former senior figure in Han's corporate sphere. Though they initially confront one another over Dingsheng's theft of Source Intelligence’s data, they negotiate a settlement after Han presents irrefutable evidence. 236 237
• Liu Huo / Liu Yu — Han’s secretary, whose name is also rendered as Liu Yu in later passages. He helps organize materials, deployment plans, and travel as Source Intelligence's operations grow more complex, and coordinates Han’s increasingly busy research-institute visits. 223 240 384
• Jiang Yixin — Source Code’s product leader, promoted by Han when he transfers daily operations to Su Niannian. She values his trust in allowing her to launch Riding the Wind on the company’s behalf. While developing the Personal Growth System, she seeks a meeting with Han to explore proactive learning and reusable AI skills; the discussion also inspires his own approach to Sight skills. 156 212 289 290
• Chen Jianye — Source Code’s technology leader. Han observes his change from a stubborn, isolated engineer into a more cooperative contributor. After the company helps secure schooling arrangements for his child, Chen declares his loyalty, and Sight confirms that his Stability rating has risen to S. 156 285
• Jiang Songran — Technical leader involved in Source Intelligence’s infrastructure and L100 adaptation. Han accepts a far more aggressive operator-compatibility target than Jiang initially believes realistic, taking responsibility for parameter tuning himself. Han later approves Jiang’s request to visit the installation site for more than 8,000 L100 cards and decides to accompany him. 200 285 287
• Xue Zhaoheng — Ximing’s chief engineer. He initially accuses Han of making implausible adaptation claims, but a test on Ximing’s own hardware convinces him. Han responds without humiliating him and seeks a partnership built on Xue’s engineering judgment and commitment rather than merely acquiring software files. Xue later participates in planning the L200 design. 272 273 380
• Academician Zhuang Zhi — Distinguished Shuimu University computer scientist introduced to Han by Lu Zhengping. He becomes an approachable academic contact, attends the agent-regulation discussions, gives Han the Singapore conference itinerary, and participates in evaluating the domestic training-cluster breakthrough. 263 353 355 356 387
• Zhang Wenduo — Professor Shao’s doctoral student, initially doubtful of Han’s model achievements. By the later research-institute period, his world-model research is among the projects Zhao reports to Han. 263 356
• Shen Zhonghe — Leader of Source Intelligence’s interconnect team. Han supports his team’s HL-Link work and, after its successful thousand-card cluster test, recognizes its importance to larger clusters and next-generation chips. 356 359
• Liao Botao and Ding Yaoxian — Icecore executives involved in the L200 manufacturing partnership. Gu Siyue helps Han establish contact with Liao; later, accurate chip-efficiency simulations convert the executives’ skepticism into a cooperative hardware–software R&D arrangement. 314 380
• Li Yan — Senior leader of Seek Him Technology and an industry rival. He attacks Glutinous Rice Ball as a model that games rankings, prompting a sharp response from Han about Seek Him’s platform strategy and paid-search history. He later opposes Han’s agent-safety proposal but fails to overturn the argument. 300 303 356
• Zheng Xiaobo — Dingsheng CEO. Although his company previously pursued leverage over Han’s data and computing needs, he later recognizes Source Intelligence as a potential partner. He approves offering its stalled Lingang data-center project to Source Intelligence at fair value and invites Han to dinner as a gesture toward a new relationship. 145 356 362
• Director Yu — Government official who scrutinizes Han’s claim that Glutinous Rice Ball 1.0 was post-trained on a domestic 1,024-card cluster. After direct inspection verifies the achievement, his initial skepticism gives way to respectful cooperation. 387

Story Role / Major Arcs

• Dingsheng exit and freelance period — After being laid off from Dingsheng, Han turns to freelance development while deciding what kind of work he truly wants to pursue. 4 99
• BugKiller and Open Things — Han founds BugKiller, gains public attention under the name NullPointer, and develops Open Things as Source Code Technology’s second product. 25 77
• Multi-cloud negotiations — He rejects exclusive dependence on a single cloud platform, negotiating agreements with Celestial Pivot, Kunlun, and Qingyue Cloud simultaneously. 37 58
• Dingsheng conflict — With Gu Siyue and Chen Bowen’s testimony, Han uncovers the manipulation behind his former review, Wang Zhiyuan’s schemes, and the acquisition of Flash Tech. 86 105 113
• Hongyuan fundraising — Han presents Source Code Technology to Hongyuan Capital, argues for his company’s valuation, and secures He Yunshen’s support. 77 78 184
• Foundation-model development — He recruits Zhao Wenyuan, names the large model Heavenly Craft, and develops Glutinous Rice Ball into a 7B intent-comprehension model with world-leading benchmark performance. 93 136 143 166
• Source Intelligence expansion — As president of Source Intelligence Technology, Han recruits Jiang Songran, prepares to build proprietary inference and training stacks, and plans an initial procurement of five hundred GPUs. 200 201
• Source Intelligence founding — After deciding that Source Code cannot remain dependent on outside foundation models, Han establishes a separate large-model company, assigns Source Code’s daily operations to Su Niannian, and incorporates Haicheng Yuanzhi Digital Technology with Zhao Wenyuan. 156 157
• Compute-for-equity strategy — Refusing to wait for conventional Series B financing, Han treats GPUs and data as the true scarce resources, secures 100 million yuan in Dingsheng computing-power credits for 5% equity, and offers Hongyuan an equivalent opportunity. 128 158
• Government investment and domestic infrastructure — Han impresses Hongyuan, State Grid Power Investment, and the Strategic Emerging Industries Guidance Fund with Glutinous Rice Ball and domestic-chip adaptation. He secures State Grid Power Investment's 300 million yuan investment for 10% equity, a board seat, green-power support, and a broadened industrial-implementation performance target. 171 174 184
• Zhangjiakou data-center construction — Han begins developing Source Intelligence’s Zhangjiakou compute infrastructure, entrusting Zhang Biao with server-rack leasing, filing preparation, and site coordination while Zhao Wenyuan leads model and hardware-adaptation work. 189 192 248
• Glutinous Rice Ball training and Level 4 — Han drives the model through stabilized pre-training and immediate post-training while producing high-quality Chinese and English annotations. Sight reaches Level 4 during this phase, substantially enhancing both his cognition and his ability to interface with computers. 218 223 228
• Dingsheng data-theft dispute — After discovering that Dingsheng trained Kun Yuan on Source Intelligence's proprietary annotation data, Han obtains direct proof, rejects a licensing proposal, and reaches a settlement requiring Kun Yuan to be taken offline and transferring Dingsheng's idle domestic graphics cards to Source Intelligence. 231 236 237
• Political and business pressure — When Zepeng Capital pressures Source Code over a prospective deal, Han remains in Beijing to confront the situation directly. Pei Youqian unexpectedly retreats after an apparent intervention linked to Gu Siyue, leaving Han to reconsider the role of privilege in his success. 246 247 248
• Government recognition — Han demonstrates Glutinous Rice Ball to officials and academic experts, receives interest in local support and further strategic engagement, and travels to Beijing at Lu Zhengping’s invitation to discuss Source Intelligence's broader role in domestic AI infrastructure. 258 259 260 261
• Glutinous Rice Ball 0.9 deployment — Han publicly explains that full pre-training is complete but post-training still has room for improvement. He announces that Source Code’s applications have already switched to Glutinous Rice Ball for intent understanding and task orchestration. 254
• Academic connections and regional competition — As Haicheng offers incentives to retain Source Intelligence, Lu Zhengping introduces Han to elite Shuimu researchers and potential technical talent. Han recognizes that academic access, not just funding, is a major part of Lu’s support. 263
• Ximing adaptation demonstration — Faced with Xue Zhaoheng’s disbelief, Han installs Source Intelligence’s runtime and operator library on Ximing’s 32-card cluster. A stress test with a 21B open-source model reaches 250,000 tokens per second and an estimated 54.7% MFU, establishing the value of Source Intelligence’s software and opening a path to partnership. 273
• Training-operator adaptation and Sight skills — Han accepts an aggressive one-month target for basic training-operator compatibility, leaving logical correctness to the engineering team and volunteering for detailed tuning. He develops Operator Adaptation Lv.1 and successfully optimizes FusedAttentionBackward, discovering both its extraordinary efficiency and substantial energy cost. 285 290 291 292
• Beijing Research Institute expansion — Han shifts Source Intelligence’s strategic R&D focus toward Beijing, places Zhao Wenyuan in overall command, and introduces him to key contacts. The institute’s later projects include interconnect research, power-industry applications, medical entrepreneurship, world models, and Glutinous Rice Ball post-training. 287 299 300 303 356
• Interconnect and chip-development strategy — Han pursues technical cooperation with Hanlian, uses Sight’s programmable interface to begin interconnect constraint modeling, and seeks manufacturing cooperation with Icecore while relying on specialists for unfamiliar chip-engineering fields. 314 315
• Agent-safety regulation — Han and Zhao participate in a closed-door industry meeting alongside major technology companies. Han’s safety framework becomes the basis for forthcoming rules addressing emotional dependency and real-world agent execution, despite Li Yan’s opposition. 353 356
• HL-Link thousand-card breakthrough — Shen Zhonghe’s team demonstrates a 4.7-fold communication-efficiency improvement on a 512-card L100 cluster, then successfully links two such clusters into a 1,024-card system and completes a simulated training task. Han approves celebrations and bonuses while leaving further stability testing to the team and using reward distribution to strengthen Zhao’s leadership. 359
• Dingsheng rapprochement — Zheng Xiaobo decides that selling Dingsheng’s stalled Lingang data center to Source Intelligence at fair value could resolve an operational problem and build goodwill. Han receives his dinner invitation and later meets him directly. 356 362
• L200 hardware–software co-design — Source Intelligence’s chip-efficiency simulator convinces Icecore after predictions match confidential validation data within five percent. A simulation of the proposed L200 completes the same training task in 1.77 seconds compared with the L100’s 6.84 seconds. Han helps secure Icecore’s manufacturing commitment, with a first tape-out targeted for year’s end and a test cluster before April 1 of the following year. 380
• Glutinous Rice Ball 1.0 completion — Zhao’s institute team develops a framework that doubles its previous training speed and later finishes post-training on the domestic L100 cluster. Han learns of the finalized version during his institute visit after scores decline slightly in the last round and the team locks the model. 368 384
• Government verification of domestic training — Han reports that Glutinous Rice Ball 1.0 has completed post-training on 1,024 domestic L100 cards. Officials and experts examine the logs, travel to Zhangjiakou, inspect the hardware and software, and run their own jobs. They unanimously confirm that the cluster is genuine and capable of training a 100-billion-parameter model. 387
• Singapore AI Conference — Han attends the conference and takes the stage when Professor Coleman’s accusation prompts a request for Source Intelligence’s representatives to respond directly. On the final evening, he forgoes the official banquet to attend a private dinner with veteran entrepreneur Chu Zhuang. 394 400
• Relationship disclosure and family dinner — Zhou Min visits Han’s company and realizes that he has begun dating. Han clarifies that his girlfriend is Gu Siyue, not Su Niannian, and arranges a dinner where Gu and Zhou bond over stories from his childhood. Although the meeting is affectionate, Han notices Gu’s discomfort around discussion of visiting his hometown for New Year and remains concerned about the unspoken issue. 401 402

Notable Quotes

“I haven't seen one, but I run fast enough.” 78

“AI competition has already become technological hegemony.” 178

“I merely trust my own judgment.” 158

“I'm certain that AI is meant to help people, not replace them.” 209

“Sight, add points!” 291

“We're stronger than the giants.” 353

“Now that the team is getting bigger, we both need to learn to let go and let the team do the work.” 359

Trivia

• Han prefers the bitterness of coffee to high-quality tea. 109
• Duoduo considers his drawing of a house “so ugly.” 69
• He jokingly describes Glutinous Rice Ball as an AI that “can read minds.” 150
• He once privately compared Su Niannian’s social networking skills to customer relationship management software. 112
• Han has maintained a childhood tradition of watching the latest Detective Conan film, having collected the manga since discovering Volume 67 as a student in Lu'an. 167
• During his twenty-seventh birthday visit, Zhou Min prepares hand-rolled noodles with a fried egg, and Han secretly uses Sight to check that she has no serious health abnormalities. 67
• His family continues giving unmarried relatives Lunar New Year money, so he still receives it at twenty-seven. 217
• He buys a top-trim Starry Sky Blue SUV for 569,800 yuan after testing its zero-gravity seats, insisting that the junior salesman Xiao Li handle the sale. 164
• He jokes that his Level 4 gymnastics could qualify him for a live-action JoJo adaptation. 228
• The dramatic “Sight, add points!” command accompanies functionality implemented through his own plugins; it is not evidence of a separate freely spendable skill-point resource. 291
• He invests in Ma Xiaofei’s Xiao Fei Interactive and is struck by how shabby the cost-conscious startup’s workstations look. 338
• He and Gu Siyue both enjoy durian. After an indulgent weekend, she asks him to stop drinking cola and join her for weekend workouts. 384
• Unlike Gu Siyue, Han likes sweet food. 402
• His relationship with Gu Siyue is his first romantic relationship. By the family dinner, they have been dating for roughly a month. 402

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