Rebooting 2009: The Age of Sparks

In 2026, Lin Zhou, a backend programmer in Yuzhou City, worked overtime during a production incident at three in the morning and died suddenly. He woke up in a classroom in Yunxi County, just before the 2009 college entrance exams. Starting out in a rural family in Qingshi Town, about 100 kilometers from Yuzhou City, he relied on memories from his reborn life, systematic engineering reviews, and strict cash-flow discipline to get into Jingzhou University. He built campus websites, internet companies, phones, and smart cars, changing his family's fate along the way while resisting the pull of capital, the trap of path dependence, and his old habit of working himself to exhaustion.