He’s an honest programmer. His code isn’t great, but it’s rarely wrong. Still, other people take the credit, while he always gets stuck with the blame.
Zhao Agui, 28, is an outsourced programmer earning 8,000 yuan a month. Working overtime until the early hours is routine. When a project launches, his boss, Zhao Sichen, goes onstage to accept the award. When the system crashes, the whole company watches him fix the bugs. All he can do is smile bitterly and say, “I didn’t think it through…” A textbook modern-day Ah Q, numbing himself with “spiritual victories.”
Then, one night, on his way home after working late, a car accident leaves him on the brink of death, and reborn.
In the chaos, a ridiculous memory floods his mind: Weizhuang, the Earth God Temple, the fake foreign devil… Suddenly, he realizes he has been reborn as Ah Q, the man who “beats his son’s father” in Lu Xun’s writing!
But this time, he refuses to accept his fate!
A programmer’s logic + Ah Q’s insight into human nature = a crushing advantage!
He uses Git to document a chain of evidence, WeChat messages to turn a front-desk informant, and data analysis to steal his rival’s traffic with pinpoint accuracy. Starting with a street stall selling data cables, he builds a livestreaming empire called “New Weizhuang,” turning the programmer’s way of thinking into a business weapon.
Zhao Sichen? He’s just the first bug on Zhao Agui’s road to revenge.
Capital comes after him? He uses algorithms and human nature to turn the tables.
The timid coder of the past now stands beneath the spotlight, laughing coldly. “You weren’t just bullying me. You were bullying everyone at the bottom who’s been forced to stay silent.”
This time, he’ll rewrite the source code of his fate with his own hands.
Dedicated to every programmer who’s been exploited and ignored but has never given up their dignity.
May you transform from the Ah Q in Lu Xun’s writing into the Agui in this story.
Your worth shouldn’t be defined by anyone else.
