Wednesday, 31 December 2003.

This is the last day of 2003, and from tomorrow onwards, the pace of time will step into the new year, 2004. And it's been a year and a half since I returned to this plane.

He went from a high school student with nothing to today, a college student with a slightly successful career, and such a huge change has occurred in this short period of time, which occasionally makes Liu Yun think of a feeling of being in a different world.

Along the way, he has embarked on a completely different path from his previous life, and has inadvertently changed the trajectory of many people's lives.

Just before the New Year's Day holiday, Liu Yun made a decision to cancel the promotion link to NetEase on the homepage of hao123 and replace it with TOM.com.

Sina and NetEase have adopted this kind of delaying method of playing Tai Chi, disagreeing, not refusing, and consuming it like this, which makes Liu Yun very dissatisfied.

He understood that he could not offend the giants of the two major portals at the same time, and after a period of careful consideration, he decided to take NetEase first.

As a veteran enterprise of the Internet, Sina.com is known as the first portal in their hands, with the highest number of visits from netizens and the most comments behind the news. So Liu Yun chose NetEase, which is relatively weak.

Liu Shihua, the director of the technical department at that time, asked him with some curiosity, and said: "Boss, since you have made up your mind to offend NetEase, is this game section of Journey to the West still being done, aren't we helping NetEase make money by doing this publicity?"

Liu Yun didn't even think about it, and told him directly and simply: "A portal is a portal, and a game is a game, and there is no connection between the two." This game section of Fantasy Journey to the West should not only be done, but also done the best. Behind it is the first game forum in China, as well as the promotion of hao123, if it can't become a gathering place for fantasy western players, it can only mean that it is too much of a failure. ”

During the New Year's Day holiday, Liu Yun and Su Yuhan both chose to return to their hometown Donghai City. Because of the National Day, Su Yuhan did not choose to go home, but stayed in Hangzhou with Liu Yun for 7 days. This time, under the constant urging of the family, Su Yuhan really couldn't find a reason to refuse.

These days are a rare leisure time for Liu Yun, he accompanies Su Yuhan and the two of them to go shopping, watch movies, and eat together.

On the last day of New Year's Day, Liu Yun received a call from his cousin Li Siyue, and he also felt that it should be time to fulfill his promise.

Li Siyue's family can be regarded as a well-off family, her mother works as a cashier in a private company, and her income is not high, but fortunately, it is stable.

Her father, Li Zhigang, works at Zhongzhou Hotel, the largest hotel in Donghai City. Before 2004, the work of Zhongzhou Hotel was still the envy of many people.

The guesthouse-like hotel is also a desirable state-owned enterprise, and since 2004 it has been on a path of privatization and restructuring that has been the same as many other mediocre state-owned enterprises.

In the first few years of the millennium, the transformation of state-owned enterprises with average efficiency into privatization was an irreversible path, from Donghai City to the entire Jiangnan Province, and even the whole of China, too many places were playing out such scenes.

Some people have made a fortune by cutting off state-owned assets by all kinds of cunning and reckless means and made a lot of money, while others have been working yesterday with an enviable iron rice bowl in their hands, and today they are laid-off and waiting to be employed.

Originally, two people in parallel lines, one went to heaven, and the other person may have gone to the abyss, and the two had completely different results.

2004 was a special year. This year, the last batch of state-owned enterprises was restructured, and the clarion call of the market economy became louder and louder.

And the trace of innocence that has been retained since the nineties of the last century has gradually dissipated, and people have begun to become more and more utilitarian and shrewd.

In the past few days, Li Siyue's mother is also Liu Yun's aunt, Wang Huifen has a sad face and is very unhappy.

Her husband's unit, Zhonghai Hotel, has begun negotiations on corporate restructuring, and many employees have been called by the leaders to talk, the meaning is very simple and clear: don't make trouble, focus on the overall situation, and there is another layer of meaning between the lines, the money bought out by seniority will be subsidized as appropriate, and the shares should not be considered.

What bothers her is not only her husband's affairs, but also her precious daughter Li Siyue.

This girl has been very obedient since she was a child, with excellent grades, and is the pride of her family, but since she went to high school, she has not studied as seriously as before, and her grades have slipped from the top ten in her class to the middle of the class.

A few days ago, her daughter found her and said that she wanted to participate in the audition of that super girl, and was going to ask for a few days off from school, and she also said that she wanted to be a singer and wanted to chase her dreams.

At this moment, Wang Huifen had a feeling of five thunders, and she vomited bitterness in her heart: My baby daughter really didn't know which tendon was wrong, and she actually wanted to be a singer, and she didn't even want to read books.

Some of their relatives are some extremely responsible families, and their expectations for their children are to study hard, then take the entrance examination to a good university, graduate, work, get married and have children, and their lives are ordinary and safe.

"Siyue, what kind of singer are you, this is not a legitimate profession, you know. ”

Liu Yun's aunt Wang Huifen is 5 years younger than Liu's mother Wang Huifang, and now she is only forty years old.

Because she got married relatively early, her daughter Li Siyue is only one year younger than Liu Yun. Liu Yun studied a year earlier because of the big month, so the two siblings were two terms apart.

"Liu Yun, you come to persuade your sister, it's useless for me to be a mother now. This Nizi is now full of daystar dreams in her head, you are all young people, and you should have a common language. Liu Yun's aunt Wang Huifen said bitterly, "It's hard to say whether your uncle's job in this state-owned enterprise can be kept, and your sister is in this state, why is my life so hard?"

She knew that Liu Yun's family had opened a few Internet cafes that were very profitable, but so what. Do you really let my husband go to the pipe network over there, he used to be an employee of a state-owned enterprise, can he accept this sense of disparity?

Liu Yun smiled bitterly, he glanced at Li Siyue, she was sitting quietly on the sofa with her head down, pouting without saying a word.

In advance, the two had a private agreement, Liu Yun agreed to Li Siyue's participation in the supergirl draft, and asked her cousin not to reveal it to her aunt in advance, otherwise her aunt would know that the two were in the same boat, and it would not be easy to convince her at that time.