The Lady Elopes

Details of a romance between two Corvo in Wei Sector.
== Story ==
Corvo values are all about freedom and equal opportunities for everyone, but when it comes down to which family has the money, and how they keep it in the family, the rules are quite different.
One of the youngest girls of the Wao-Geng family, a niece of Princess Wao by the name of Geng Hua, fell in love with some Mister Fu, a lower-income data technician from Wangertown. The family is horrified, Hua was poised to inherit three datatech firms, including, most notoriously, the one her paramour works at.
Since they don't intend to disown her, they have isolated her, assuming being apart from Mister Fu will let her outgrow her foolish infatuation with a nobody. It hasn't worked so far, and Geng Hua remains a prisoner at her own mansion. But Fu, who, as his job requires, is a very skilled hacker, has kept in touch with her clandestinely and promised to free her from the clutches of her relatives.
Freeing Hua is no mean task - it requires going against the most powerful family in Wei Sector, and by Corvo law it would be kidnapping and punishable by deportation to a penal colony. Plus, Wei is watched by the Great Army of Tiantang - the most elite military force in the Universe - in the payroll of families exactly like the Wao-Geng.
But Fu is not a blue to renounce the love of his life, and is willing to pay any sum - within his possibilities - to anyone skilled enough to take on the Wao-Gengs and their GAT mercenaries to let Geng Hua run away with her true love.
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