On his eighteenth birthday, Lin Yue received more than a coming-of-age gift. He also got a text from the bank: his account balance was zero, and every card linked to his parents had been disconnected.
"From today on, the law no longer requires us to support you."
He stood outside the university gates, clutching his admission letter and a transit card with only two yuan left on it.
That same day, twelve million people across the country named "Lin Yue" were pushed toward the same abyss.
But they didn't know that behind this law lay a social experiment spanning thirty years. And Lin Yue happened to be the most exceptional subject in the experiment.
Ten years later, while everyone else was still struggling to scrape together a down payment on a home, Lin Yue stood atop the headquarters of the company he had founded, Foundation Technology, looking down over the entire city.
Behind him was a database of 300,000 employees. Before him lay an appointment letter naming him chief architect of the "National Youth Transition System," specially approved by the State Council.
Someone asked him how he had made it this far.
He said, "It's simple. When I was eighteen, the whole world abandoned me. Then I decided to make sure the whole world could never abandon anyone again."
New book, new author, new creation. Hope you all enjoy it. After the initial passion fades, perhaps all that remains is a sense of ordinariness and helplessness. Regardless of whether it gets good traffic later on, and whether this work was poorly made or poorly executed from the beginning, I will still finish it. This is my first work, and there may never be another one!