After days of late nights and endless coffee, the Tianji project was finally done.
Every hour of overtime, every missed meal, and every bleary eyed morning had paid off. The results were not merely satisfactory. They were exceptional.
Her team was proud and Malik, her manager, was prouder.
He had already placed the Star Engineering proposal in her hands before Tianji was even fully closed.
"You have five days to finish the Star Engineering proposal," he had told her. "This one matters."
Willow had simply nodded. "It will be ready."
She finished it in three.
The following days became a blur of early mornings and late nights as she built the Star Engineering framework with clean logic and precise scalability. The work demanded absolute concentration, architecture rather than repair, prediction instead of reaction. She designed something meant to endure, a system that could grow with Star Engineering for years.
