Mechanical Ascension: Chosen as the Villain in a Shadow World

Qin Ba is a programming prodigy on the brink of creating true artificial intelligence—software that can think, evolve, and rewrite itself. But when his revolutionary work is leaked, powerful forces move to stop him. Just as his program reaches its final calculations, everything changes. Thrust into a shadow world where he's branded the villain, Qin Ba must use his genius and his self-evolving AI to survive a game where the rules are stacked against him. In a reality where technology meets the supernatural, can one man's code rewrite destiny itself?