When he wakes up, Chen Xiao, a tech whiz and business genius, has been reborn in a parallel world in 1999, inhabiting another version of himself on the brink of the college entrance exams.
That year...
OICQ has just launched, and employees at Goose Factory pose as girls to chat with male netizens. Ma Yun is mistaken for a fraud and forced to leave Yanjing for Suhang to start a business. Li Hong rents two rooms at a hotel in Yanjing to discuss the beginnings of Baidu...
That year, armed with a guide to the future world's cutting-edge technology, Chen Xiao advances from social media software to domestic operating systems, from homegrown chips to artificial intelligence, from bioenergy to DNA-based cancer treatment, and from quantum technology to antigravity engines...
He reaches the top of the Forbes list and dominates global media headlines, then suddenly realizes he has changed the world without meaning to.
