Reborn in 2008: I Become a Tycoon Thanks to Doubao

Chen Xiaofan worked in AI research and development at a major tech company in 2026. At thirty-five, he was laid off, his family fell apart, and he died alone in his rental apartment. When he opened his eyes again, he was back in his senior-year high school classroom in 2008. The copy of Five Years of College Entrance Exams, Three Years of Mock Tests on his desk was still warm. Cicadas shrilled outside, and the countdown on the blackboard read, “31 days until the college entrance exam.” But now, in his mind, there was a super AI from 2026: Doubao. This AI held all the publicly available data from 2008 to 2026: lottery numbers, housing trends, stock prices, internet booms, technology patents... It couldn’t make Chen Xiaofan rich directly, but it knew where every opportunity would arise over the next twenty years. But Chen Xiaofan wasn’t in a hurry to become the richest man in the world. With the 500,000 yuan he won in the lottery, he first bought his laid-off father the honorary title of “factory director,” arranged a full medical checkup for his mother, and anonymously helped a brilliant, beautiful classmate from a poor family finish her education. Only then did he begin to make his moves In 2009, he launched “Dou Chat,” six months before WeChat, and took Tencent on in a battle for social media; In 2012, he ventured into real estate and cashed out right before the property market controls, raking in 30 billion; In 2014, he bet his entire fortune on making phones. After being crushed by Apple, he fought back with AI chips; In 2020, Doubao phones ranked first in global sales, yet he hid alone in a corner at the celebration banquet; In 2023, he made cars, faced sanctions, and fought back from the brink. Doubao Group became the world’s biggest company;