Shortly after the dot-com bubble crisis, trillions of dollars were lost worldwide, and the entire industry is still in the doldrums.

On Wall Street in New York, institutions that have lost tens or tens of billions of dollars are everywhere, and there are many lucky ones who sense that something is wrong in advance and get out in time, and they make a lot of money and watch a big joke.

From the mid-90s until a few months ago, the Internet industry was the most talked about by investors, a new industry that had just been born for a short time, and successfully created a large number of well-known billionaires.

Recently, the Nasdaq index was only more than 1,100 points, and on March 10 last year, this figure was 5,0048.62, and even rose to more than 5,100 points in the session.

The Nasdaq index fell by more than 3,900 yuan, in exchange for the bankruptcy of countless technology companies, stocks and investment institutions suffered heavy losses, the cold winter has already come, recently, in October at the end of 2002, the managers of countless high-tech companies in Silicon Valley, most of them are thinking about the same problem - how to survive.

An Internet industry does not reflect the overall economic outlook of the United States, after all, the impact of the collapse of the Internet bubble is not as great as the impact of last year's 911 incident.

Judging from the trajectory of the economy in the first three quarters of 2002, although the US economy has not recovered much and the momentum is not strong, the economic recovery has been accompanied by the decline in the stock market, and there are many unstable factors, but after all, it has entered a bumpy road to recovery, and there has not been a "double recession" as many people predicted.

All in all, the signs of spring are beginning to appear.

There was a young guy walking down Wall Street with a bottle of beer, in a Coke bottle to be exact, because he was not yet old enough to drink legally......

Year 2002.

The European Union began to use uniform legal banknotes and coins, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani had just received a knighthood from the Queen of England, Palestinians and Israelis were in conflict, and the US Congress gave President George W. Bush the authority to use force against Iraq if necessary.

Just the day before yesterday, October 12, three vicious explosions occurred in Bali, Indonesia, killing nearly 200 people and injuring more than 300.

That's pretty much the way it is.

There is a lot of chaos, but the continental United States is as safe as ever, especially in New York, which is currently the largest cosmopolitan city in the world.

High-rise buildings are one after another, and new and old buildings coexist, each with its own characteristics. The streets are clean, the alleys are littered, and there are more rats in the sewers than people.

Ye Dongqing has been very happy recently, and he thinks that he has come to a good era.

That night, I jumped downstairs, but when I opened my eyes, I found that I was sleeping in a small room that I knew very well, and all kinds of past events seemed to be a world away.

Now only eighteen years old, still in his third year of high school, not too many troubles, not poisoned, and also not much money, he can't figure out why this happened, like he had a long, long dream, and like he went back to the past after death.

It's not something he's worried about, and being able to continue living anyway has made him very happy.

Ye Dongqing remembers the recent incident, he had just completely fallen out with the hateful couple who were his aunt and uncle, and he had just moved out by himself when he turned eighteen, and he only lived in that dilapidated small house for five months in his memory, and the contract he found in the morning told him that he had only moved in last week.

He clearly felt the confusion of time and space, whether it was a poor IBM laptop, a single-function Nokia mobile phone, and even an ugly car passing by on the road told him that it was really 2002.

It's hard to imagine that not far from Wall Street is a dilapidated and dirty Chinatown, where Ye Dongqing was born, grew up there, and is very familiar with the surrounding streets. If Wall Street billionaires are gathered, then the poor living in Chinatown are like rats in the sewers, belonging to one of Manhattan's most famous slums.

It has to be said that it is a great irony, when people think of Manhattan, there are countless high-rise buildings, Broadway, rich people, Central Park, money, but who will remember a group of poor people with low incomes who are still struggling in this place with prohibitive prices?

The only regret for Ye Dongqing is that he returned to 2002, not 1996, when his parents died in an accident and received about $350,000 in compensation after their deaths, and his aunt's family used the money to rent a slightly better house and move out of the slums of Chinatown.

At that time, he was too young, and the law stipulated that his relatives would raise him on his behalf, and Ye Dongqing always felt that the reason why the two of them adopted him in the same way was mainly for the money, not out of family affection and the like. They also have children, a son and a daughter, living in this stressful Manhattan, partiality is certain, such as their own children are sent to private schools, and Ye Dongqing can only go to garbage public schools.

The funny thing is that even if he came to study in this kind of school, his SAT mock test score was still better than those two children. For his cousin of the same age, Ye Dongqing is extremely disgusted, and he doesn't have too many complaints about his cousin with a good personality, and the only one who can help him talk at home is the little cousin named Ding Tian.

Thinking back to why they fell out at the beginning, or why they fell out last week, it seems that it was because they were not only unwilling to pay for him, but wanted Ye Dongqing to take out the money he earned from his part-time job for his cousin to go to college, what a ridiculous logic.

It is impossible to reconcile with my aunt and uncle, since I have already moved out, there is naturally no need to move back, and there are many young people in the United States who live alone after the age of eighteen.

A man is at ease, he is too lazy to bother with his boring and hateful relatives, and at this moment he walks to a familiar place and looks up.

Standing on the side of the road, in front of him is a Rolls-Royce convertible Corniche, before his death, Ye Dongqing also had a Rolls-Royce, but it is a 2017 Phantom, according to the time calculation, the first Phantom after being acquired by BMW should still be in development.

He didn't look at the car, but the building across the road, and felt as if he still had a whole floor of office in it a few days ago, and he could see Wall Street's iconic golden bull from the window, but the rationality in his mind told Ye Dongqing that in this era, he hadn't bought that floor yet.

The mobile phone rang suddenly, the name was a little familiar, and the voice of the man on the other side came out after connecting: "Leo, why didn't you come to class......?"