I am not Ximen Qing.

Men are not inherently different from Adam in the Bible. God allowed him to live happily in the Garden of Eden, but why did God then create Eve for him? Adam became lost in Eve's body and soul. Men know perfectly well that women will cause them pain, yet they still become lost in them.

According to Baoyu's thinking, he has hundreds of girls in his family, but he can only see the past and future of thirty-six of them. He doesn't expect hundreds of girls to exist eternally like the golden hairpins and beautiful jade in Baoyu's paintings. Those who are together are left with only regret and hatred, and those who are not together are left with only unforgettable love.

Yan Bing rented a 150-square-meter apartment in a six-story building with an elevator in Tiantongyuan West Zone 1. He was friends with the landlord, and the rent wasn't expensive, only 1,800 yuan a month. He had previously worked with Zhang Sheng for half a month selling computers, and Zhang Sheng paid him 800 yuan a month. After returning to Beijing from home, he applied for a job at Lao Chen's company in Zhongguancun and became a sales representative for Compaq laptops. Of course, Lao Chen was one of the earliest authorized distributors of Compaq laptops in Zhongguancun, having completed his initial wealth accumulation and observing the changing trends of the world with an air of sainthood. The sudden shift from a high point, peak, or summit to flat ground was somewhat disorienting, as the difference was too stark. In the past, everything was a world unto itself; now, warehouses were overflowing with products, and profit margins were almost nonexistent. The fastest return on investment was three months, and the risk was high. It was like the days when Wall Street tycoons made their fortunes selling junk stocks; the era of getting rich quick with nothing was gone. Everything had changed overnight, filled with nostalgia, a listless, decadent, and collapsed spirit.

I wonder what Rockefeller, Carnegie, and the steel magnates would think if they were alive today? The era of oil and steel is over; it's the era of silicon, the great spirit of Zhongguancun in Silicon Valley, the chip era that turns sand into value, the semiconductor era. How much of the Silicon Valley DNA is in Zhongguancun? How many geniuses from the Silicon Valley world are there? Since Yan Bing spent some time in Zhongguancun, he's been constantly tinkering, figuring out new ways to make money—tinkering is definitely part of the Zhongguancun DNA. He's been working alongside Lao Chen, searching for breakthroughs—3721, search engines, recruiting students for universities in various regions.

With such cheap rent and a large area, this place became the office location for the new project. For this reason, he had a beautiful girl who had been his class monitor for many years. She had a smiling face, a pure and innocent girl. According to Yan Bing, she was a girl who was all water. She was as gentle as water, with a full and voluptuous figure. She was quite conservative, as if she was afraid of revealing her private parts and causing trouble. She was as white as cream and as white as snow. According to the painter's aesthetics and vision, if the class monitor took off her clothes, she would definitely be another version of Boricelli's Venus. She was full of love and desire, with a slanting gaze, a goddess level that disturbed the mind.

A woman's instincts are powerful. His girlfriend from Chengde, Li Huan'ai, immediately came to Beijing and applied for a purchasing specialist position at a real estate agency. Beijing's real estate agencies are like grandmothers; because their business is completely monopolized, there are no competitors. In this kind of company, you don't need to work hard—gold nuggets and bricks fall from the sky, even meteorites are gold—similar to the Mayan golden cities that appeared everywhere when the Spanish first landed on the Americas. Yan Bing suddenly realized that, to avoid suspicion, he simply put his former secretary, a man, in charge of his class monitor. The secretary was capable of cooking and laundry, and crucially, he saw a wealth opportunity in Li Huan'ai. He could simply use Li Huan'ai's checks to spend money at various wholesalers—similar to the business in Zhongguancun. But, according to Old Chen's nostalgic explanation, this was like traveling back to the era of easy money. Because the company's profits in real estate were so high, even the auditors had become accustomed to the idea of ​​buying the most expensive things. Using women to make money was the best method and business strategy—it could provide love, generate income, and, crucially, ensure the continuation of their DNA through procreation.

Song Yu called Zhang Cheng to go drink with Dr. Henry, who was visiting Beijing from Thailand. Henry was into men and dreamed of starting an AI goddess machine company. Song Yu and Henry had met at an IBM launch event. Henry confessed his feelings for Song Yu, but Song Yu, being shameless, figured Henry could help her if she went abroad, so why not take advantage of him? It turned out Song Yu was always jealous of Da Liu's seemingly simple-minded luck, especially since he had a brilliant older sister who couldn't live without him. The two vowed to have a baby in the US to avoid the hassle of immigrating. What was so great about America? Neither could say, but given their current situation, for those seeking to escape the snobbishness of friends and family, America was definitely a paradise. Da Liu smoothly went to America to be a stay-at-home husband to his senior's wife. Song Yu would call Da Liu from time to time; he was still the same heartthrob eating lamb kidneys, drinking large drafts of beer, and enjoying lamb skewers with Zhang Sheng near Anzhen Bridge. The senior student, true to her biology background, possessed a deep and persistent passion for exploring genetics. She believed that the male god's genes were rare, and although he quickly became a poor student in university, it was exactly what she had hoped for. Originally a top student, if he hadn't fallen into academic failure, she wouldn't have been able to find such a wonderful fertility candidate. Women are especially mindless when it comes to love, and particularly obsessed with intuition. Dr. Henrry indeed didn't find Zhang Sheng, with his poetic qualities, appealing. He told Song Yu that he loved heroes, men with a masculine spirit, and after a few glasses of whiskey, they chatted for a while longer in the dimly lit room.

Strange things are happening every day. I went to the Longli Diplomatic Apartments again and had a few drinks. Feeling dizzy, I went to the furniture store and saw a huge bed I liked. I'm planning to tell Song Yu about Tang Hao Sai's love story with goddesses in a palace, and I'm sure I'll have love stories with women as full of desire as Venus. I keep calling Wang Yali to ask how the house is going. Wang Yali's slightly teasing tone is, "Don't worry, it's not even been half a month yet. There's this guy in America who thoroughly investigated our company to buy a house, and there wasn't a single problem. Don't worry, the house is ready. The big banks are checking the paperwork; they're even more anxious than we are. What are you worried about? 100% no problem, don't worry, your palace is certainly spacious enough."

Zhang Sheng has been quite busy since the collaboration in Tianjin and hasn't had time to communicate with Jiang Tao. Actually, after Jiang Tao and Wei Hua collaborated, Jiang Tao delegated the company's computer and office-related procurement business to a relatively strong company in Hailong. The company has at least several hundred square meters of store space in Hailong. It is an agent for IBM and HP laptops, as well as other products. The key point is that the company gave Lao Wei a three-month payment period, which means that the company can just make a phone call to get whatever it needs, and the service is excellent. A technician worked at Jiang Tao and Wei Hua's new company. If a product broke, it was replaced; even after only a few days, it could be replaced with another brand. This caused no loss to the suppliers, who, due to their large sales volume, enjoyed payment terms of several months. This was called shadow banking. For the new company, it alleviated the pressure of cash flow. Store sales generated cash flow, allowing the company to maintain normal operations. The boss was also shrewd, hiring attractive female economists with high commissions. Securing large clients didn't require any special methods; the relationship between men and women was very close, and goddesses would throw themselves at them. However, the cost was ultimately passed on to the consumer. A few thousand yuan more for each computer wasn't a big deal, as long as it could be reimbursed; the rest was up to imagination. After visiting the company once, Jiang Tao suddenly had an inspiration. He thought about the first wave of domain name websites that benefited from the boom: Yahoo, Sohu, Sina, and NetEase; and the second wave that Google and Baidu missed. Internet cafes are not part of the company's DNA. The internet is the company's future direction. His former company is currently in liquidation. How could a company with such a promising future go bankrupt after going public? He and Wei Hua were secretly relieved. It was all thanks to Zhang Chao's impulsive expansion that led to a cash flow crisis. If this fatal problem hadn't occurred, how would he and Wei Hua have had the opportunity to start a company? The company's former employees and a large number of clients have now become resources for Jiang Tao and Wei Hua. They don't need to develop new resources; the existing ones are enough for the company to enjoy profits for several years.

The idea for a "Goddess World" was born: to build a chat platform on the internet—something the company excels at, inspired by the "beauty economics." Men love chatting with beautiful women, don't they? Develop their own chat software, hire a large number of "goddesses" to chat online with men surfing the internet, and charge a fee for it.

Yan Bing discovered that buying odds and ends of office supplies for Li Huan'ai was far more profitable than working for 3721. Making money off women was definitely easier. Huan'ai, however, was blinded by love for him. She worried that Yan Bing had ulterior motives in hiring the female class monitor to promote his business. The female class monitor was already somewhat interested in Yan Bing, but Huan'ai had already moved into the 150-square-meter apartment. Then there was Yan Bing's handsome male secretary, who did all the work—cooking, laundry, even washing the female class monitor's bras and underwear. Yan Bing wondered if he had made a mistake, hiring a eunuch-like male secretary. Don't forget, passion often blossoms in the solitude of two people. The eunuch-like male secretary finally defiled the female class monitor. According to the secretary's boastful words, what was Yan Bing? He was fed up with Yan Bing's hypocrisy. The female class monitor was a worm of desire; what business was she supposed to be promoting? She and the male secretary were consumed by their love and lust every day. Yan Bing was heartbroken! This was a double pain. He had long ago devised a plan to seduce the female class monitor with her voluptuous body, but two women make a drama, and the female class monitor eloped with her male secretary. Huan'ai mocked Yan Bing for his failed attempt, telling him not to be sad and that men shouldn't be so fickle, subtly implying that she was also sensible and this was the best outcome. The female class monitor was also sensible, and Yan Bing knew he hadn't lost out. He had already made seventy or eighty thousand yuan from Huan'ai; when he was short of money, Li Huan'ai was his savior, and crucially, they could have a love story at night—there couldn't be a better story in the world. Li Huan'ai gave Yan Bing a valuable piece of advice: record calls before calling important people to get a feel for the conversation. She even specially recorded a drunken, indecent conversation with Yan Bing. What's a drunk person like? It turned out that he had already been talking nonsense about wanting to "take care of" the female class monitor. What did "taking care of" the female class monitor mean? It meant seeking liberation from a lost paradise with the female class monitor's voluptuous, alabaster-like body. A woman who falls in love with a man can accept everything about him. Yan Bing especially cherished Li Huan'ai's advice. Thanks to this advice, after a month of training, her language and logic became almost at a broadcaster level. She called a Taiwanese female venture capitalist with substantial capital and immediately landed a job as a venture capitalist opening a chain of directly operated stores focused on maternal and infant products—a huge opportunity in the Chinese market. Unicorns were becoming rare, and the ultimate dream was an IPO. The process of opening a standard directly operated store was a complete package, from renting space and security to decoration and operation. Just like helping Li Huan'ai purchase office supplies, opening one store after another, thinking about the profit margins, she was so excited she wanted to cry. She would wake up and wonder if she was living in a fantasy. But it wasn't a fantasy; the budget was reasonable because the channels she had accumulated in Zhongguancun were strong and deep enough to give her a significant advantage. The budget was always a little lower than the company's audit department's bottom line, and the salaries weren't low either.

Zhang Chao's complete failure stemmed from his belief that everything was under control. He spent his days in meetings and with various business partners in his company building, becoming a prominent figure among entrepreneurs. He was an innovative entrepreneur, one of the first in the book industry to enter the internet market, advertising in magazines and on television, attracting a constant stream of reporters. His company management was relaxed, everything was geared towards innovation and development—everything seemed perfect. His company successfully went public through a reverse merger; many entrepreneurs in Zhongguancun might not even have a concept of listing. Zhongguancun generates new blood every day, and eliminates the old daily. Some rise to prominence, some fall into obscurity, some succeed, some fail. Perhaps some understand Zhongguancun, perhaps some don't. Zhongguancun is unique, one-of-a-kind, possessing both the ruthlessness of capital and the passion of entrepreneurs. It has a perpetual motion machine-like vitality that never ceases; opportunities abound in Zhongguancun.

Months later, Yan Bing was still immersed in disbelief and worry. Selling laptops and wholesaling IBM servers—that was all he was doing. 3721 was just a small improvement in his life. He couldn't understand why Li Huan'ai's company's procurement solved his immediate cash flow problem, and then he went to the new company to open stores one by one, select locations, handle security and decoration, recruit and operate, and hand them over to headquarters management after they matured. It was that simple. After dozens of stores, he bought an apartment in Li Huan'ai's hometown, made a down payment of several hundred thousand yuan in Wangjing, took out a mortgage and bank loan, and had some savings. In just a few months, he couldn't understand where his superhuman talent came from.

New darlings have emerged, not the losers who are disheartened, and the disheartened ones don't even understand where things went wrong. The biggest change is that Apple computers, in a non-mainstream way, have spearheaded a revolutionary trend in music players, with the high-capacity iPod. Remembering that Apple's very existence is the iPhone, this has caused the hybrid of Motorola, Nokia, and Microsoft to suddenly disappear from the mainstream market. The wholesale electronic components market on Zhichun Road has moved into a new building. The legendary figure in the market, Old Ma, and his alluring wife, Ya Li, a voluptuous woman with heavy makeup, have become even more flamboyant after giving birth to Old Ma's son. Old Ma's rise to prominence is legendary in Zhongguancun, similar to that of Eight Hundred Million Space and Dada Memory. The timing was undoubtedly the Taiwan earthquake; Old Ma decisively stored 10,000 memory modules. He knows the extent of the profit, and he strolls around the market every day like a leader, scheming some wicked idea. Old Ma, along with Liu Laohu, Old Han, Ren Chuantian, and Ren Chuandi, are always boasting about how much money they've made this month. Now, Old Ma has become half the sky of the market, a prominent figure.