Summary: Chu Wei was reborn years back, when he was still a rich young man and his family did not survive the bankruptcy. Feeling that he can do something for his future he invested his money in prospering future businesses and currently was having fun in the club to celebrate a break-up with a scumbag boyfriend who is actually straight but had to pretend just to get money from him. The naive young Chu Wei is no longer here. But during the celebration Chu Wei noticed a familiar face of future big boss and heard word like 5 years and 200k, thinking crookedly he threw his bank card and said: "300k, follow me". Lu Jianliang who was signing a lease contract with an uncle was surprised by such picture, but followed. Which was the beginning of their journey on a career growth path and also unexpected love.
Shining point - the style. It was humorous and light-hearted and fluid. I was comfortable reading this novel and it was fun to follow these two characters. It is more career-oriented story and a bit idealistic. But partially it was a showcase of who Chu Wei is, he is indeed said to be an ideallist. Although the romance is present, but it's not really that obvious or taking the C position. The time spent on realizing their feelings was long and also after passing it seemed that their relationship was a bit subtle with nothing shoved into your face.. like many things I think were said in passing. Although it was hard for them to be dating like many others and doing fun things with the busyness they had.
So what is the story about?
Chu Wei was reborn and he knew that because of technological changes in the communication sphere his family will face a predicament, it happened in the last life. Previous BB machines his family produced became not needed at once and there was no buffer time, plus his father supported a lot of his relatives who basically sucked his blood and when something happened they were nowhere to be seen. Chu Wei later went to work and they paid off debts and he also worked in programming, so when he came back to the past his thoughts were on another level. Mainly he missed the Internet and smartphones.
Investing into Lu Jianliang was an obvious thing and he also stayed as a tech director, because he knew from history that it was time when Lu Jianliang faced a predicament too, whoch he later overcame but at what cost. This has something to do with a collegue and a friend who wanted to take away the most precious thing, the developed software and all the computers, which cost a lot at that time and flee abroad. This hurdle was overcome by them and as a tech Chu Wei lead the small studio to a bigger success. He knew that many people of this studio are future bosses, he also knew other future bosses and he tried recruit everyone.
Although Chu Wei is not a capitalist like Lu Jianliang, he's more conscious I'd say, but his inadvertent opinions inspired Lu Jianliang to make changes to his existing plans, like they knew the number of active users on domestic net is small, but there is enough people abroad, they promoted Dragon forum and their game along. This was the first pot of gold an dthe beginning of success.
The studio became a company, they moved and occupied a new office, they recruited many new people and the path to success started to take shape. Like placing ads on the forum, next developing a trading site and not only concentrating on developing games.
On Chu Wei's side he actually invested in several industries, but now because he wanted to create a mobile phone earlier he waited for his chance. He helped a company which wanted to createa smart portable computer and transformed into future mobile phones. Later he helped few bankrupted BB factories to transform and produce simplified versions of new mobile phones and because he was at the forefront he always earned more. Even if he knew that he might stay one day and be squeezed out, but for now he knew that with the knowledge of the future he could be the first to do things. Also because his previous mobile phones were so successful between the rich it became a brand of status. He's not as sharp as Lu Jianliang, but at least he tried his best.
In the end it was nice to see them thinking of funding and charity, so they built schools at their city and planned to expand to other places where schools were needed.
This is why I say that he is ideallist, Chu Wei several times proposed things he thought would be beneficial and will push their people forward. Like he knew these things are important and he wanted to help.
One of the biggest such things actually happened very early, because of chnges there were many lay-offs and people were left without jobs, so to solve this problem they pushed the information about investment to foreign investors, basically it pushed the process of foreign investment forward and alos the coverage was wider.
In many ways the Internet showed it's glory in unification of information.
One of such sotires is a very side-cjaracter that is mentioned in passing, Li Weiwei, she has no idea who both main characters are, she's just one of those laid-off workers, but because of foreign investment they finally found a job in garment factory. because the Internet started to develop her collegues talked about it, so she once allowed herself to look at it and then her husband noticed the advertisement of goods for sale (you know how may people took the goods for sale and were responsible for transportating them ot other places too and earned the difference). This allowed them to earn more, but later the trading platform made things even better, so her family basically supported the Zhulu company (name of Lu and Chu company), because they were inadvertant helpers to their situation.
As for family situation of Lu family, actually Chu Wei's involvement saved Lu's mother who was staying in the hospital all this time and waiting for surgery. Lu family was previously a wealthy now, but Lu father was swidnled out of money and eventually they went bankrupt, only the studio Jianliang had stayed, but Lu father was gone.
As for the Chu family, Chu Wei several times tried to persuade Chu father to change and be prepared to transform, but he was stubborn and listened to his relatives like a holy father, when the predicament happened like last time they faced the same development and all relatives turning heads and not willing to help. As a result this time Chu Wei asked Chu father for full authority and fired all relatives, bought the factory and then sued all those relatives for fraud, since they indeed were involved into fraud according to the contract. Chu father was hit, but when he realized that either his wife divorces him or he chooses his relatives who did nothing good for him he eventually stopped caring about them.
As for the romantic line.
At first the two were funnily bickering, which was actually a funny sight to follow and also it wa slively and humorous. Chu Wei did not consider Lu Jianliang as possible partner, he had enough with one straight partner. Later he realized that other make him uncomfortable, but he was okay with Lu Jianliang. Yet how should he act if the other person is a straight man, so he wanted just to retreat and do his own thing.
Lu Jianliang had no idea about girls or boys, but one day he reacted to Chu Wei. He actually thought he was a scumbag who was after someone's body, but later Chu Wei to him became cuter and cuter and it developed into feelings.
The break happened when Chu Wei wanted to leave/retreat and start independent things, like factory transformation. Lu Jianliang agreed to him, but he also confessed his feeling and went along with Chu Wei as a lady boss. Previously Lu Jianliang often joked about being a kept boy etc. He also knew about Chu Wei's relationship story, but he never changed his opinion. But now as shameless as he is he didn't mind to call himself boss lady and stick to Chu Wei.
Interestingly, that except the ex-scumbag whow as so against gays, but the rest of people felt as if they were pretty okay about the two being together and heard only blessings from others (sometimes even before they came together).
RATE: 4/5. Light-hearted and easy read. Quite short and actually really nice.
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