June 12, 2025, Shanghai.
Shen Nian stared at the dazzling liquidation text message on the screen. Fifteen years of accumulation came to nothing overnight.
The Bitcoin contract exploded, his brothers turned against each other, and his first love taunted him - just when he thought his life had reached the bottom, his heart stopped and his vision went dark.
When he woke up, he was lying in his college dormitory in March 2010. The fan was squeaking, the spring light outside the window was just right, and my roommate was still playing games.
I only have a few hundred yuan left in my pocket, but my mind holds the memories of the next fifteen years.
He knows that Bitcoin will rise to more than 100,000 US dollars, that housing prices will increase dozens of times, and that companies will become giants.
He thought that this was a golden finger given to him by God, allowing him to win in life.
However, the moment WeChat went online five months in advance, he was confused.
Damn the butterfly effect - why can't he cheat all the way through time travel like the protagonist of a cool novel?
When the memory begins to fail, when the future becomes uncertain, when the former brother walks into the abyss again, when a girl who silently likes him has been waiting for him for seven years——
Shen Nian finally understood: Golden fingers can only give directions, and the real road must be walked by oneself.
From a 40-square-meter cubicle in Huaqiangbei to a technology empire with thousands of people; from a failed product crushed by WeChat to working side by side with Huawei, Alibaba, and SpaceX; from being alone to being surrounded by brothers, lovers, rivals, and teachers.
This is a person's transition and a microcosm of an era.
