2002: The Xiao Yi AI System

In 2002, the internet was just beginning to take off, and the curtain on a new era was quietly rising. Zeng Changsheng, a working-class laborer from the remote mountains of Guangxi, drifted from job to job in the garment factories of Jun’an Town, Shunde, Guangdong. He endured the hardships of life at the bottom, missed out on the love of his youth, and seemed destined to achieve nothing. At his lowest point, the [Smart Xiaoyi System] unexpectedly bound itself to him, turning his life around for good. In his previous life, he was timid and insignificant, burdened by lifelong regrets. In this life, he plans every step and takes charge of the times. From running a night-market stall and repairing electronics to salvaging computer parts, he earns his first fortune and breaks free from the factory assembly line. Seizing the early internet café boom, he develops diskless systems and cashier management software, taking his sales operation nationwide and making his first move in tech entrepreneurship. Then he charges into the internet’s blue ocean, developing his own social network, navigation service, online games, and e-commerce platform, and going head-to-head with giants like Penguin, Alibaba, Baidu, and Pig Farm. He stakes out a position ahead of the smartphone era, expanding into news, short videos, food delivery, transportation, and the sharing economy. By building a complete business ecosystem spanning payments, credit, and social networking, he creates a commercial empire that reaches across the entire internet. And technology doesn’t stop there. Self-driving cars, drone deliveries, and low-altitude passenger aircraft shatter the limits of the ground, while satellite constellations, lunar exploration, development of Mars, and the expansion into deep space across the solar system advance step by step. From a factory worker who could barely afford three meals a day, he rises step by step to become the supreme ruler of Earth’s technology, a leader of human civilization, and a pioneer in the interstellar universe. Rise from nothing, ascend from humble beginnings to godhood, break out of the solar system, and usher in an era of boundless cosmic development!