Who Needs a Legitimate Startup After Rebirth?

From the author of multiple bestselling urban novels comes a story set in 2001, during the explosive growth of the internet industry. Reborn into this pivotal era, Cheng Yi abandons traditional entrepreneurship for a bold new vision: collecting a modest service fee—or perhaps protection money—from the world’s tech giants. In his early days, he declared that whoever controls traffic controls the entire internet. At the peak of his power, he vowed to destroy any tech company daring to steal livelihoods from ordinary street vendors and laborers. Even in retirement, he rejected the title of guardian of traditional industries, insisting he was simply rebellious by nature. His final epitaph read: "This is the last trap I dug for the world."