You Can't Steal My Glory

Susan takes the credit at the project's celebration banquet, and the million-dollar bonus and the vice president's post that were coming to Lin Yi go with it. Lin Yi is the top hacker in Jiangcheng and Susan has no idea. To keep her own part of it quiet she spends the run-up to the acceptance inspection pushing him down, and she fires him just before the client signs off. The program wipes itself during the inspection, and Susan starts to understand that she had more than an ordinary programmer working for her. He moves to another group and helps the woman running it bid against his old employer for the next contract. Susan and her own superior keep up the accusations against him through the tender.