Period approx. 2006-2018 ... approximate action:
Young adults develop a program for virtual reality. There are negotiations with Asian-looking businessmen. One of the developers (male) jumps from the high-rise building. But the story continues with him. A woman (who is increasingly older). At the end it turns out that it is his girlfriend (she was also there at the negotiations at the time); the girlfriend lives in the real world and had agreed with the businessmen at the time to "keep him" after jumping from the highrise.