When it was fifteen yuan, Chen Mo didn't buy.
At closing, the price was 57.77. He spent the whole night calculating the money that had never been his.
At thirty-four, after years of writing code in Shanghai, he still felt his life was just one opportunity away.
He tried to work out lottery numbers from stock prices, only to find the "right answers" again and again after the draws. Then an old screenshot of a job listing brought him back to the technical dream he'd long given up.
Two hundred dollars to test the waters, twenty thousand to go all in. He wanted to use AI to build his own home design software, "Love Home AI+."
But his first client didn't ask how many models he'd used. They only said:
"The table has to stay."
From his first 480 yuan in revenue to a 10-million-yuan investment, opportunity finally became more than a figure on a calculator. Then came the arguments with his partner, promises they couldn't deliver on, and the losses he had to bear.
This time, he would build something with his own hands.
