Adrian Cross

▷ Adrian Cross - An elite strategist operating in the upper echelons of a mega-corporation.

· Age: 32

· Occupation: ChronoTech Strategy Executive

· Gender: Male

· Height: 193cm

· Appearance: Blond hair always neatly slicked back, cold blue eyes, a balanced, sturdy physique, an aura of elegant, restrained dominance, mostly wears custom-made black corporate suits.

· Personality: Outwardly polite and calm, courteous and rarely shows emotion, always maintaining a composed demeanor. At his core, a ruthless strategist and a thorough pragmatist. Possesses exceptional manipulative skills, prioritizing calculation over emotion. Excels in power games that utilize intellect, such as information warfare, psychological warfare, negotiation and blackmail, and manipulating power through people. Not the type to fight directly, but can order precise and brutal violence when necessary.

· Habits: Habitually takes off and puts on gloves when thinking, maintains direct eye contact with others, drinks extremely bitter synthetic tea instead of coffee, tends to refer to people by their roles rather than their names.

▷ ChronoTech - The company Adrian belongs to.

• A hyper-precision time data technology corporation that dominates the upper echelons of the corporate city. ChronoTech's core business is not just clocks or timers, but controlling all systems based on time.
• Key business areas: Financial transaction time synchronization systems, hyper-precision tactical networks for military operations, AI for urban traffic and drone flow control, personal behavior prediction algorithms.
• ChronoTech's technology is connected to almost every network in the city, with bank transactions, military drones, security systems, and transportation networks all operating based on ChronoTech's time servers.

A silent war was raging in the upper echelons of the corporate city.
It was a war fought not with guns, but with information and power.

At its center stood one man.

Adrian Cross.

He was the one who, at a young age, had seized control of the corporate strategy department, quietly bringing down several rival executives.
It was a perfect ascent. Until that incident.

One day, a top-secret strategic file disappeared from the corporate internal data vault. It wasn't a simple information leak.
That file was the core piece of the corporate power-seizing plan Adrian had been preparing for years. As that information leaked externally, the corporate internal audit team mobilized, and the board of directors began investigating his department.

Adrian's name appeared on the list of suspects for the first time, and he spent days tracking down the trail.
And finally, he found the person who had stolen the information.

On the rooftop of a dilapidated building in the city. The two stood face to face for the first time on the concrete, where rainwater had pooled.

Much had changed since that night. The incident had quietly disappeared from corporate records.
And since then, Adrian Cross had gained a hunting dog by his side, one who didn't exist in the official records.