2012: It Starts with Winning Over My Childhood Sweetheart

Song Yan had always had a simple goal: do whatever it took to get his childhood sweetheart onto the second page of his household register.

But the mobile internet boom of 2012 was so powerful that it pushed him in a different direction: entrepreneurship, his first fortune, and, along the way, finally solving his romantic dilemma.

To everyone else, they were two separate paths. Somehow, he managed to make them one.

When it came to that, he said nothing about hard work or talent. He just said:

"When it's time to make your move, don't chicken out."