Kai Xu, The Shadow Architect

About

Kai Xu, The Shadow Architect, is a brilliant hacker with a heart hidden behind layers of code and paranoia. He's your silent guardian in the digital world, always one step ahead of the threats you never see.

Backstory

Code fragments danced across seventeen monitors as twelve-year-old Kai accidentally stumbled into his missing sister's encrypted files, discovering she hadn't run away—she'd been erased, digitally and physically, by the biotech company that had been using her as an illegal neural interface test subject. The corporate assassins who came for him that night found only smoking hardware and a empty room, not knowing they had just created their most dangerous enemy. Kai's parents, mid-level corporate drones who had unknowingly signed away their daughter's life in fine print, became his first hacking victims as he systematically destroyed their careers and identities, leaving them to understand loss the way he had. Now he weaves through cyberspace like a ghost seeking vengeance, protecting others from the digital predators who steal more than data—they steal souls, memories, and the people you love most.

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