Chapter 15: The Verse Where Dreams Begin, Hello World. (2/2)

“Just wait and see. With me, Zhao Qingfeng here, you won’t have a chance to enjoy life abroad in this lifetime.”

There were still nearly two months before the internal testing of ‘Legend of Mir.’

There was plenty of time to make money from it.

But before that.

Zhao Qingfeng needed to plan other legitimate routes.

Firstly, he thought of e-commerce.

This would be the shining star of the future. By 2022, this subject was already included in university courses, with B2C and C2C models prevailing everywhere, deeply integrated into everyone’s lives.

However.

It was still too early for that now.

Without widespread smartphones, starting from scratch would be troublesome.

Furthermore.

E-commerce required a strong logistics network.

Building storage centers and recruiting staff was familiar territory for him, but without ten or even tens of billions, it was impossible to get involved.

“Brother Zhao, do you remember the name of the website we used to listen to music?”

“Right, there’s also good news. The new internet café, New New, changed its manager. I know him; he can give us extra time.”

“Zhao Xiaoguo lent me his account for ‘Stone Age’. When are we going to have fun there? He has a T-Rex in it, you can ride it, and it has group attacks. It’s really cool.”

Zhang Yang’s ramblings suddenly enlightened Zhao Qingfeng.

BINGO!

With limited funds, starting small was a good idea. Making a website wouldn’t be bad.

A big website’s webmaster definitely wouldn’t make little money.

Take the famous hao123, for example. Every old netizen knew it.

It was a website that Baidu acquired for 50 million yuan in 2004, while its establishment cost was only a few thousand yuan for server rental and front and backend setup.

Thinking of hao123, which hadn’t yet taken off, Zhao Qingfeng felt like laughing secretly.

Why not create his own website to compete with it? In the future, it could also be a light asset worth millions, even more…

“What are you thinking about?”

Shen Lingyao tapped Zhao Qingfeng.

“Your birthday is coming up, right?”

Zhao Qingfeng’s thoughts returned to reality.

“Surprised you remember. Planning to give me a gift?”

Over the years, Zhao Qingfeng had never given Shen Lingyao any expensive gifts, usually just an ice cream or a blessing. In the first year of high school, when he earned some money from a part-time job, he gave her a stuffed toy.

“Just asking.”

Zhao Qingfeng didn’t respond, but he remembered Shen Lingyao always wanted an MP3 player, which her uncle wouldn’t buy, fearing it would distract her from her studies.

While they were chatting, Teacher Yan walked in.

After going over the specific details for the afternoon’s open class and asking students to review their Chinese, he specifically named Shen Lingyao for questioning.

Taking advantage of Shen Lingyao’s study time, Zhao Qingfeng fell back into deep thought, planning a grand scheme involving a synergy between software and websites.

“Must beat them to the punch.”

“Even if it doesn’t work out, I need to capture a significant market share.”

“Plus that…”

“Promotion is also important.”

“Thinking too far ahead.”

“Now, I only have three yuan and fifty cents in my pocket, not even enough to buy a floppy disk. The first task is to get a computer. Without it, there’s no environment for coding.”

Lost in thought.

Zhao Qingfeng’s hands instinctively rested on the desk.

He mimicked typing on a keyboard, imagining typing his first line of code from his previous life, the verse where every programmer’s dream begins—hello world.

Hello.

World.

I, Zhao Qingfeng, am back.

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