Reborn in 2000, starting from the university website

In the winter of 2000, the collapse of the internet bubble swept the globe, leaving a trail of devastation in its wake. Forty-five-year-old Bai Yuhang, after a near-death experience, was reborn as a freshman at Harbin Institute of Technology. Holding the memories of twenty-six years into the future, he witnessed an era teeming with opportunities yet fraught with peril. With the vision of a lifetime, he declared, "In this life, I will ignite the first fire in the dead of winter." From humble beginnings at three internet cafes to the sprawling landscape of thousands of cafes across Northeast China, Bai Yuhang's journey took him from developing rudimentary navigation sites to becoming the portal to all platforms. With mere start-up capital of a hundred yuan, he would eventually reap the rewards of his first advertising revenue and the attention of the first investment institution. In this life, he aimed not only to make up for the opportunities he missed in his previous life – in the realms of search engines, social networks, mobile internet, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence – but also to reunite with his brothers, who were disappointed in his previous life, and his partners, to forge a new path forward, driven by his unwavering determination and unrelenting passion.