At the seed funding celebration, Leo announced Chloe as his new co-founder and fiancée, reducing Maya to a disposable programmer. Maya simply terminated NovaTech’s external access to her core algorithm on her private server and said, "Good luck." Three years later, Maya returns to their Series B roadshow as the Special Project Director of Apex Capital. She chooses to personally destroy the startup she built day and night, paying the direct cost of permanently abandoning any chance to salvage her original life's work. As Leo confidently presents a fabricated stress test to secure millions, Maya waits in the audience holding an early email memo proving her sole ownership of the module. The roadshow is about to begin, and only one of them will survive the night.