Startup Sensation

[New Release: The Next Viral Web Novel] Through a twist of fate, Gou Dai has to pull off a spectacular and sufficiently flamboyant failed startup. These days, starting a successful business is hard. Does failing at one take special skills too? A month later, an app called [Not Hungry?] appears to compete with [Are You Hungry?]. All its delivery workers are unemployed seniors aged 60 or above, and they have to make deliveries on foot. Everyone, including Gou Dai, thinks the project is utterly absurd. But half a month later, a major news network runs front-page headlines for four days straight: “[Not Hungry?] Wins Praise for Encouraging Seniors to Socialize Outdoors! Empty-Nesters Rejoin the Modern World” “Curious, I Ordered Takeout with [Not Hungry?], Only to Find My Father at the Door. Office Worker Bursts into Tears” “Young People Praise [Not Hungry?]: Their Parents Finally Nag Other People’s Kids, Dramatically Reducing Pressure to Marry” “News Department Spokesperson Praises [Not Hungry?] for Offering Ideas to Solve the Reemployment Problem Among China’s Aging Population” Several years later, the media interview Liang Junche, head of the most successful venture capital firm of the day. Reporter: Back then, everyone thought Mr. Gou Dai’s projects were far too absurd. Why did you keep investing so heavily in them? Liang Junche, perfectly composed: Vision and trust. Reporter: Truly, an investor with the best eye for talent! Assistant: Hah! You make scheming sound so elegant! Reader’s Guide: 1. This isn’t purely a business novel. The romance-to-business plot ratio is about 2:3. There’s more romance early on, so readers looking for a purely business-focused story should proceed with caution. 2. The System has an extremely low profile and offers no help at all. Everything follows a sound logic: the startup depends on skill and luck. 3. The characters grow. The tsundere gong is still the gong. Show some love to younger partners, starting with yourself. 4. Ninety percent of startups in our country don’t make it to three years. Don’t let this story inspire you to start a business. After all, encouraging someone to start a business invites heavenly retribution. == ★Coming next: The Next Viral Web Novel. Please add it to your want-to-read list. A completed novel you can enjoy: Special Red Wine Supplier Feel free to visit my author page. == Planet J is a high-tech civilization with a severe lack of culture. By chance, its people obtained some web novels from Earth, and Earth’s web novels became wildly popular on Planet J. The limited number of Earth web novels was a drop in the bucket and couldn’t satisfy the people of Planet J. So they created a [Web Novel Generator]. Feed it a web novel, and it creates a corresponding web-novel world. Thanks to the butterfly effect, even a small change in one variable can completely alter the story, producing an entirely new web novel. But despite their efforts, the people of Planet J found that the storylines barely changed. They lacked the cultural roots and way of thinking of Earth. Then Professor Zhai appeared, having scored a perfect mark on the Earth Culture Assessment. The people of Planet J eagerly opened the web novel Professor Zhai had written. In the original story, a great demon wreaks havoc on the mortal world, only to be slain by a child who unwittingly uses an ancient divine remedy. In the end, the child and the demon merge, becoming a protagonist who shifts between demonic and human forms, witnessing the vicissitudes of the mortal world and experiencing every joy, sorrow, love, and hate. [The world falls into chaos. A great demon, sealed away for ages, absorbs the essence of heaven and earth and returns to the mortal world. Passing through a village at the foot of a mountain, it encounters Professor Zhai.] The people of Planet J are pleased. The variable appears early, so the story changes more dramatically. [Professor Zhai discusses Marxist atheism with the great demon, repeatedly stressing the principle that no one is allowed to become a demon after the founding of the nation. Amid philosophical questions like “Who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going?”, the demon begins to doubt its own existence and ultimately turns to dust.] [The End.] The people of Planet J: ???? Theme: Mass innovation and entrepreneurship for all