June 1999, Shenyong City, Huaguo, Shenda New Village.

Shenzhen University New Village is a residential community for teachers of Shenzhen University, located in the central area of Futian City, which is the earliest batch of Shenzhen University welfare houses, and the residents in it are professors and teachers of Shenzhen University.

Built in 1993, Shenda New Village was less than 7 stories high, but it was quite a good community at that time.

After Gu Zhi finished dinner wholeheartedly, he said hello to his parents and went back to the room.

He closed the door tightly and stood alone in front of the window, staring at the distant twilight.

In 1999, China's economy had just started, and as a window city and special economic zone for reform and opening up, Shenyong gradually developed vigorously, with high-rise buildings replacing farmland, and the city's commerce gradually forming a scale.

Outside the window, as night falls, a dazzling orange-yellow light gradually lights up.

Even if the sky turned dark, Gu Zhi could still clearly see the white clouds floating in the sky from time to time.

Most of the teachers who live in Shenda New Village have just had dinner, and they are getting together in twos and threes.

Some are doing tai chi, some are walking with their wives, and a half-hundred-year-old man is holding an old radio, listening to the Peking Opera that Gu Zhi is incomprehensible.

From time to time, there were bursts of piercing cicada chirps, which came into Gu Zhi's ears.

The lively atmosphere of life outside the window pulled him back from his dementia.

As of today, it is the third day of his rebirth.

From the initial doubt, nervousness, excitement, and fear, Gu Zhi was afraid that all this was just a dream for him.

Only now, he is finally sure that this is not a dream!

Reborn, his parents have also noticed Gu Zhi's abnormality in the past few days, but now he is in the prime of his 16-year-old youth, and there are some unusual performances in the eyes of his parents, which is also in line with the rebellion and restlessness of adolescent teenagers.

Both of them are enlightened figures, and they have always been relaxed and induced by their son's education, so they didn't ask too much.

Gu Zhi's father's name is Consultant, a professor in the Department of Computer Science of Shen Yong University, and he is a typical intellectual, elegant and focused, advocating rationality.

On the other hand, there is also a lack of ruthlessness in character.

His mother's surname is Lin Mingzhi, and after graduating from university, she successfully entered the banking system of Shenyong City, which was the envy of everyone at that time.

Although the salary is not much, it is better to be stable and have good hidden benefits.

But Lin Zhi is not a character who is willing to live a stable life, she has a perseverance and keen business sense that women rarely have.

After the change, she resolutely resigned from the job symbolizing the golden job despite the opposition of her family and colleagues, followed the trend of history, and went to the sea to do business.

On the other hand, Linzhi's insistence was fully supported by the consultant.

After more than ten years of hard work, Linzhi has finally become one of the leading leaders in the garment industry in Shenyong City in recent years, and has also occupied a large market share in the entire GD Province.

In 1999, Gu Zhi's family had a family property of nearly 100 million, and they were well-known as wealthy and successful people.

His father is a university professor, and his mother is a successful businessman, with these two layers of aura, Gu Zhi has been smooth and unimpeded since he was a child.

Although the university did not enter the TOP2 in China, it is also a well-known 985 university in Beijing.

After graduation, he went to the United States to study and studied for graduate and doctoral studies in the Ivy League top 10 universities.

Unfortunately, the good times were short-lived.

The Internet era came so fast that no one thought that China's Internet industry would develop so rapidly, and in just a dozen years, it has become one of the most developed countries in the world.

From the initial plagiarism and copying of foreign products, to self-innovation and development, even the Chinese people themselves can't believe that the Internet has completely changed their way of life without realizing it.

The development of the Internet is not only in itself, but also in the industry.

From taxis to takeaways, from group buying to renting, from shopping to travel, all walks of life have been impacted by the Internet.

Some companies have taken advantage of the trend and caught the fast train of the Internet, while many more have died on the beach after the big waves.

Lin Zhi and the consultant are among those who have been eliminated in the Internet age.

The consultant's profession is a computer major, and his understanding of the Internet is far beyond ordinary people.

But it is this in-depth understanding that makes him unable to have any confidence in China's Internet industry. Otherwise, he would have devoted himself to the Internet career and started a business, so why should he have been teaching at Shenyong University.

Lin Zhi was influenced by her husband, and also missed the wave of barbaric development of the Internet, and her company's sales performance deteriorated, and her share was occupied by the infinite merchants on the treasure, falling off a cliff.

By the time she reacted and wanted to get on the last train of the Internet, it was too late.

In order to make up for the company's growing deficit, Lin Zhi borrowed money from everywhere. She even gave up the original clothing industry and turned to other businesses, wanting to save the country.

However, the company's development has been stagnant.

The former glory collapsed in an instant, and finally Nyingchi went bankrupt completely, and owed a huge debt of more than 5 million.

She was white-headed, suddenly had acute cerebral congestion, and since then she has been bedridden and paralyzed at home.

The originally happy family suddenly fell from the top to the bottom.

In order to take care of Lin Zhi, who is unable to take care of himself, the consultant applied for early retirement from Shenyong University. And Gu Zhi, who was still far away in the United States at that time, had to give up his doctoral studies and rush home, picking up the burden of the whole family.

Adversity is suffering, but it also urges people to grow.

For a long time, Gu Zhi has been conscientious and conscientious and restarted the family business.

In order not to drag down his girlfriend who was still in the United States, he broke up decisively and has been alone.

Originally, he didn't drink a drop of alcohol, but he went in and out of the banquet every day, drank darkly, and managed to practice an excellent amount of alcohol.

The pressure of huge debts, the harm of long-term alcoholism, and the bitterness of being single and lonely made him constantly grow gray hair, wrinkles on his face, and decay before he grew old.

Carrying heavy weights is far, like walking on thin ice.

It wasn't until early August 2017 that he finally paid off all his debts. The originally bankrupt clothing company is once again on the right track and has achieved stable revenue.

On that day, a family of three gathered in the already dilapidated housing in the Shenda New Village community, laughing, crying, and hugging each other.

However, long-term fatigue has long overdrawn Gu Zhi's life and health, and he seems to be full of red faces, but the inside of his body is already full of holes.

On that day, Gu Zhi was overjoyed and sad, overjoyed, and suddenly suffered a myocardial infarction, his eyes were black, and he was dying.

When he woke up again, he found that he had returned to 18 years ago, the starting point of the take-off of the Internet in China.

In the last life, he dedicated everything he had and did a career he didn't like all his life, but in the end, there was only one empty life.

In this life, he has the advantage of rebirth with prophetic foresight, and the general trend is in his hands, he is the pig on the tuyere.

"It's time to do what you want to do. Gu Zhi stared at the completely falling sunset and muttered to himself.