Reborn in 2010: The Slacker Starts Hustling

Lu Yuan is reborn.

He returns to the first day of his sophomore year in 2010.

In his previous life, he was a startup's fall guy, forced out by investors. He died at twenty-five, having achieved nothing.

This time, he decides not to date or take sides. He'll keep his head down and ride the mobile internet boom like a pig catching the wind.

Things go smoothly from the start: he finds three partners, secures seed funding, and launches the product two months later.

The only surprise is the fourth partner.

Shen Wantang is a computer science oddball, a coding genius, and severely socially awkward. Her daily conversations never exceed three words, and she looks at people as if they were bugs. It takes Lu Yuan three months to get her to speak, and another six months before she'll eat the food he cooks.

Looking at the expressionless young woman beside him, tapping away at her keyboard, Lu Yuan thinks: Weren't I supposed to stay single? This isn't how it was supposed to go.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.