In his previous life, he worked his way up from a low-level internet cafe hustler to the middle ranks of the gray-market industry, only to be betrayed by a brother and sent to prison.
When he got out, he had nothing. Only then did he learn that his desk mate, who always kept her head down, had jumped from the school building ten years earlier.
After getting drunk on a rainy night, Ye Fei opened his eyes and found himself back on the first day of his second year of high school in 2003.
The SARS outbreak had just passed, internet cafes were making a comeback, and Legend of Mir was at the height of its popularity. Opportunities were everywhere, but so were pitfalls.
He had just thirty-five yuan in his pocket. The school bully was blocking the entrance to demand protection money, and a local gangster had his eye on Ye Fei's business.
But a USB drive had appeared in his mind, filled with software source code from the next twenty years.
The catch was that he had to type out every line himself.
Starting with a speed-boosting cheat, he moved on to private servers, billing systems, and internet cafe alliances, turning Nancheng's internet cafe scene upside down.
He used Ma Long's own tricks to bring him down, forced Zhao Guangfa to become his employee, was hired by Shanda as a security consultant, and had Penguin chasing him with investment offers.
And he brought his stuttering desk mate in as his bookkeeper.
She stopped having nightmares and stopped keeping her head down. When she talked back to him, she had ten sharp retorts for every one of his.
In this life, he would earn his first million and go legit, leaving the gray market behind.
More than that, he would protect the girl he couldn't save in his previous life.
