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Reborn in 1997: Coding in Internet Cafés and Accidentally Winning Championships

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Lin Chuan, a modern corporate programmer, died from overwork while fixing bugs late at night. He woke up in the summer of 1997, when the Internet was just budding. With only five yuan in his pocket, he sneaked into a shabby Internet café and coded the prototype of a future hit game using the DOS system—only to be called a "poor freeloader" by Su Xiaoxuan, the daughter of the café owner. Just as he worried about startup funds, street thugs came to collect protection money. Lin Chuan scared them off with an automatic shutdown code, which instead attracted the attention of a local entrepreneur. Meanwhile, posters for the city’s youth computer competition covered the streets. Staring at the "5,000 yuan champion bonus," Lin Chuan touched his old keyboard and made up his mind—this time, he would use code to break through fate’s door, and let the girl who looked down on him see the light hidden behind his glasses.

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