America: I came here to study, not to show mercy.

"What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?"

After leaving the office, the two met again. Noticing Li Xiaoen's gaze, Su Feier pursed her rosy lips and looked up at him. "Did you do something you're ashamed of and don't dare to tell me?"

"No, I'm just feeling a bit sentimental."

With a complex mix of emotions, Li Xiaoen shook his head without changing his expression, put his hand on the girl's shoulder, and led her towards the school gate. "Let's go, we'll go back to your home."

It was already afternoon, and many students had already returned to school with their suitcases before the start of the semester. The two figures attracted the attention of many people.

"Oh, yes."

Li Xiaoen seemed to have thought of something, "Should we go buy some wine or coffee or something?"

"No need, it's just a trip home, no need to trouble yourself."

Sophie rolled her eyes, her long golden hair shimmering in the setting sun.

……

A week passed quietly, and as another round of excitement swept through the Princeton campus, Sean Lee, along with Catherine and several other BanYan employees, walked out of the New York courthouse.

"Thank you, thank you all for your understanding and support."

Facing the flashing lights immediately shining on his face, Li Xiaoen looked up and greeted everyone, "BanYan users, please rest assured that all BanYan experiences, functions, and even data will continue to be provided to you in the same way as before."

"At the same time, I also want to announce two things."

Before the reporters who had crowded around him could speak, Li Xiaoen put his hands in front of him as if to press down, and said with a smile, "First, with this victory, the two hundred million US dollars we originally prepared will all be donated to the International Red Cross."

"Secondly, tonight, BanYan will decide to open up the customization permissions of the push mechanism. In the future, it will be presented to everyone as weighting factors and weights. When you use and browse, we will summarize the user's usage into many keywords and their weight parameters. Now you can add and delete keywords and weights to truly achieve a push mechanism that is unique to each user."

"We'll do everything that internet companies won't do, and we'll make public all the data that they refuse to disclose!"

Upon hearing this, the audience was initially stunned, and then erupted in a series of exclamations.

“Mr. Li, we all know that BanYan is still a small startup. Two hundred million US dollars is a lot of money, but it still donated to the International Red Cross. Has BanYan been in contact with any other financing?”

"Mr. Li, Mr. Li, could you please tell us whether BanYan's decision to launch this business is a retaliation against the other companies that have sued BanYan?"

"Mr. Li, you've decided to make the push notification mechanism public, so you must have some plans for the future. Could you tell us how this change in the business will affect our internet users in the future?"

There was a moment of silence, followed by a burst of loud noise. Li Xiaoen watched with a smile. Having already reached his destination, he said no more, waved to the many cameras facing him, nodded, and stepped back.

During this time, he encountered a pair of resentful glares, to which Li Xiaoen chuckled twice in response. The one standing in front of the crowd of reporters again was now Catherine, dressed in an impeccably tailored office lady uniform.

"Hello everyone……"

Catherine smiled with pursed lips, her highly formulaic demeanor silencing the relentless barrage of questions from the reporters.

That evening.

Because it was the first platform to publicly support a custom push notification mechanism, and while hundreds of millions of people worldwide were enthusiastically experiencing BanYan, causing the system to crash, Li Xiaoen sat in a large conference room. Before him sat numerous men and women on either side, all of whom were at least middle-aged. This made him, sitting in the head seat and clearly too young, appear quite out of place. Even so, no one dared to underestimate the young man sitting in the head seat.

Li Xiaoen looked up from the computer screen in front of him, his gaze sweeping over the familiar faces before him, a faint smile appearing on his face.

Prince Philip of England, Louis, Sophie's father, and Samuel, as well as Serafina's father and uncle, several people she met when Mr. Henry invited her to the top floor of the building, and even Christine from the Bush family—who secretly told him that she had the support of her elders.

"Sean, you've finally come to your senses..."

Sitting to one side, Mr. Henry was extremely relaxed, even smug, compared to the silence of the others.

Li Xiaoen was someone he had always admired, and he had mentioned him to these friends several times. This time, facing their admiring gazes, he felt really uncomfortable.

"Joining us is just putting on a coat; we can actually help you much more..."

Henry spoke familiarly and cheerfully.

"join in?"

Li Xiaoen's expression turned strange for a moment. He paused, stunned by the many expectant gazes around him, and quickly waved his hands in denial, "No, no, don't misunderstand..."

"I'm just a Chinese person who just wants to make a little money. I really don't want to get involved in your disputes."

Li Xiaoen, both amused and exasperated, quickly explained, "I invited everyone here today to discuss financing."

"Financing?"

Everyone present was taken aback and turned their gazes to Mr. Henry without prior agreement. Sean Lee did the same, and at this moment he didn't know what to say to him.

He simply asked Henry to call over some people he was on good terms with who were willing to cooperate with BanYan, but he didn't expect the other party to misunderstand.

"Since everyone is here, why don't we listen to BanYan's plan? You can all consider it."

Li Xiaoen broke the silence with a smile, stood up and gestured to everyone to the document projected on the screen. His expression turned serious. "BanYan's project is machine learning developed to its extreme. We will use E-ID to implement it."

"Everyone should be familiar with the internet. Every action and reaction we take online can reflect a part of our information. What we at BanYan do is to machine learn all of people's online behavior and summarize it into personal online credentials..."

Li Xiaoen spoke eloquently, "I hope that by then, we can replicate human will, even thoughts and behaviors, online, so that E-ID knows you better than you know yourself..."

"I hope that the emergence of E-ID can truly become a personal proof of identity for users online, just as an ID serves as proof of identity in real life. At that time, it will overturn all current online personal identity verification platforms that rely on public trust..."

"The emergence of E-ID will help with the cloudification of everyone's will in the future, including robots, artificial intelligence, and even the currently popular GPT..."

"This involves too much information. I'm afraid many American users wouldn't allow another company or organization to have their personal information."

After waiting silently for Li Xiaoen to finish speaking, Louis frowned and carefully said, "Personal information security has always been a top priority for every internet user. Besides, this kind of thing involves too much, and the government wouldn't allow you to do it this way, would they?"

"So, we're handing over the right to use it, the right to choose it, and even the right to control the E-ID to the users themselves?"

Li Xiaoen seemed to have anticipated this, and replied with a leisurely smile, "What we at BanYan need to do is not to control users' E-ID information, but to oversee the development and usage of the E-ID platform..." (End of this chapter)