Reborn in 2000: Saving the School Belle Before She Falls

On a rainy night in 2026, Shen Youwei—bankrupt and disfigured from a suicide attempt—presses her last few hundred-yuan notes into Lin Yang's hands and whispers, "Live on." Then he opens his eyes. It's the year 2000, and the college entrance exam is only 35 days away. Tonight is the very moment when her own father sold her to a shady internet café to settle his debts. In his first life, Lin Yang groveled like a fool, saving half a year's lunch money just to impress the aloof class beauty. Not this time. He kicks down the door of that black-market café. In an era where monthly wages barely reach five hundred yuan, facing down a ruthless gang boss, the eighteen-year-old Lin Yang signs a life-or-death pledge: "I'll take this twenty-thousand-yuan debt. In six months, I'll pay you back forty thousand. And I'm taking this girl with me." Behind him, Shen Youwei collapses in tears, convinced she's nothing but gutter trash. But Lin Yang just smiles. As a former billionaire tycoon in his past life, he holds the blueprint of the internet's next twenty-six years and top-tier coding skills. Forty thousand? Pocket change. This time around, he will build an unrivaled business empire—and turn this broken, pitiful girl into the dazzling queen she was always meant to be.