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* 2nd * Chapter 401 : True love looks good on you, Mr. Vanderbilt.

Author: Ethan Choi
last update Last Updated: 2025-11-06 23:55:39

Deep beneath the earth, over a hundred miles from New York City, a secret laboratory pulsed with the faint hum of servers and fluorescent lights. The air smelled of metal and ozone, cold enough to make breath visible in thin, ghostly wisps.

Marken’s alter ego sat hunched before a bank of glowing monitors, his reflection fractured across a dozen flickering screens. Lines of code streamed past like a waterfall of encrypted language—Marken’s brilliance, now out of his reach.

Frustration twisted across his face as he slammed a hand against the steel desk, the echo ricocheting through the empty chamber.

“Damn it, Marken!” he snarled. “You have to help me!”

He wasn’t Marken. Not really. He didn’t have Marken’s precision, his genius, his maddening calm. Marken had been a prodigy—collaborating with the best scientific minds before he was old enough to drive. And now this imposter, this fragment of him, was left fumbling through the pieces of a mind not entirely his own.

The alter ego clenched
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