Too Late to Hold Me Back novel Chapter 1172

While Jocelyn and Richard spent their days drowning in despair and plotting psychotic schemes to buy Lawrence's life, Mira's world was thriving. Her dual-degree studies were completely on track, and within the Solflare Group, Solflare National Bank and the blockbuster game 'Legend of Heroes' were rapidly dominating global markets.

After the official launch of 'Legend of Heroes,' Mira rewarded Soren Tate and the development team with massive bonuses and a full month of paid vacation.

However, running a tech empire meant the work never truly stopped. The team still had to manage server maintenance, patch updates, and continuously polish the game based on live player feedback.

As a result, the engineering team had to stagger their time off.

Yet, Soren soon informed Mira that most of the developers had only taken a week off before marching right back into the office.

They were absolute workaholics! Faced with a team that refused to rest, Mira issued a new directive to Soren: "Convert all unused vacation days into double overtime pay."

Knowing they were earning double their daily rate, even more developers cut their vacations short to dive back into the code.

With the team fully energized, Mira laid out the blueprint for their next flagship project: 'Apex Kings'. In her past life, this blockbuster wouldn't have been released for another five years.

It was a 5v5 mobile MOBA built on fair, competitive team mechanics.

In her previous timeline, the game had amassed hundreds of millions of global players, remaining culturally dominant for years.

When Mira drafted the comprehensive design document entirely from her memories, Owen took one look at it and was floored. "My lady, you are an absolute genius. A terrifyingly versatile genius.

I have never bowed to anyone in my life, but I am entirely at your mercy."

Mira had no intention of telling him the concept came from a future timeline. Owen was her partner in every sense of the word, and likely her future husband.

But everyone needed their secrets. Reincarnation was a heavy, supernatural burden; there was no guarantee it wouldn't create a wedge between them.

Mira wasn't bringing them in out of the goodness of her heart. Vertex Social had the elite talent pool required to build an infrastructure of this magnitude.

Mira was only providing the core blueprint. The actual coding, balancing, and world-building required an army of specialized developers.

In the tech world, strategic alliances were the key to absolute market dominance. Some projects were too massive for a single studio to perfect.

If Solflare tried to build it alone, Vertex Social would inevitably launch a heavily funded competitor.

Co-opting them was the smartest play—provided Solflare retained a strict sixty-percent controlling stake.

The following morning was Saturday. Mira and Owen headed straight to the Solflare Technologies campus.

By noon, they were scheduled to finalize the historic partnership with Vertex Social's gaming division executives.