The Year She Stopped Being Crazy for Him novel Chapter 59

Gradually, a massive crowd began to form around one of the exhibits near the back.

The robot stood just over twenty centimeters tall. Its lines were sleek and fluid, lacking any of the cold, bulky aesthetics of industrial machinery.

The front panel featured no complex mechanical structures, only a narrow, high-definition holographic screen. In standby mode, it emitted a soft blue-purple light that acted as mimicking eyes. When conducting health scans, it switched to a green data overlay. In combat mode, it instantly flared with a razor-sharp, icy red glow.

Exhibit Name: Multi-functional Micro Health-monitoring & Combat Robot.

Developer: Seven.

Dimensions: Height ~22cm, Net Weight 0.8kg.

It was Natalie's creation.

She didn't want to expose her identity, fearing it would make divorcing Hassan even more difficult.

So she had Marvin Ford present it for her.

No one could have predicted that Marvin would actually help the woman he once despised the most.

"Are you saying this robot can monitor human vitals and engage in physical combat? You fused both functions into one unit?"

Marvin nodded. "It's equipped with infrared sensors and micro-spectroscopy. It can measure heart rate, body temperature, and trace elements, generating a full report in ten seconds. It's also fully capable of high-intensity combat."

The crowd was incredulous. This tiny machine, several times smaller than any other robot at the Expo, possessed such terrifyingly advanced capabilities?

Marvin placed a secondary combat robot—one he had prepared in advance—into the arena.

This opponent was built purely as a heavy-duty siege model.

The moment Marvin activated both machines on the platform...

The heavy bot swung a massive punch and missed. In that split second of imbalance, the tiny robot leveraged its agile joints to launch itself into the air. Deploying a micro-energy blade, it precision-struck the armor seam connecting the heavy mech's cooling vents to its joints.

A second later, a micro-pulse erupted. With a sharp buzz, the heavy robot's red optical sensors flickered and destabilized. Its hydraulic systems failed instantly, and it crashed to the ground, completely immobilized.

The entire sequence took mere seconds. The delicate little robot had executed a flawless, David-versus-Goliath counter-kill using the most efficient method possible.

Dead silence swept through the hall before thunderous applause erupted.

Standing in the corner, Natalie’s eyes curved into a confident, radiant smile. She wasn't surprised in the slightest.

Meanwhile, surrounded on all sides, Marvin raised his hands defensively. "I'm just presenting this for a friend. I’m not the developer. I'm essentially just acting as her proxy. She's currently participating in R&D as a core member of our Nexus Team."

The crowd was even more stunned. "Isn't the Nexus Team led by Professor Adler? I heard they only had six core members."

Standing off to the side, Professor Adler beamed with pride. He wanted to shout from the rooftops that 'H', the absolute genius, had joined his team. Sadly, Natalie had sworn him to secrecy.

He smiled and nodded. "That's correct. Seven is our team's seventh core member."

Gardenia gripped her hands so tightly her knuckles turned white, her eyes locked on the exhibit at the back of the room.

She couldn't even put words to what she was feeling.

The undisguised pride and immense satisfaction on Professor Adler's face proved just how staggeringly talented this person was.

They had entered the Expo but hadn't even bothered to show their face, proving how insanely low-profile they were.

Blessed with god-tier talent, yet completely indifferent to fame and glory. Their clarity of mind was enough to invoke sickening envy.

It reminded her of 'H'—the person who had outright rejected Professor Adler, the very man she spent her life desperately trying to impress.