A perfect life begins with changing the timeline.

Chapter 132 Network Administrator Li Xingping

"Mr. Li, actually, it's like this. Personally, I'm also very optimistic about the future of the HA0123 website and would like to facilitate a collaboration between the two of you, which is why I invited him here today. I apologize for being presumptuous."

"Manager Zhao, you're being too polite. To be honest, I'm also a user of HA0123 myself. This website is indeed very convenient, and I can feel from some details that Mr. Li is very meticulous in the operation and maintenance of this website. So I'm quite happy to meet Mr. Li in person today."

After taking their seats, Zhao Fengrui started by exchanging pleasantries with Li Mu.

As a "supporting role," Fan Bing sat next to Li Mu, subtly facing Li Xingping.

She maintained a smile, but actually noticed that the "General Manager Li" across from her kept secretly glancing at her.

To be honest, it's like being a thief.

It's quite interesting.

Peek, move away, peek again, move away again —

She was actually quite familiar with that kind of gaze.

When they encounter their fans on various occasions, most of them react in the same way.

Not only was Li Xingping looking at her, but she would also occasionally glance at the "President Li" opposite her.

At first glance, the other person was dressed quite formally today, in a white shirt and black pants.

But—as the saying goes, men pay attention to details.

From Fan Bingbing's perspective, when observing Li Xingping's details, it's easy to notice that his hair needs tidying up.

Although it's clear that the hairstyle is just a very ordinary medium-length hair, both the length of the sideburns and the overall shape indicate that it needs a trim.

But the other party did not.

In this respect, it's a bit rough.

As for his skin—it's on the oily side, and he has heavy dark circles under his eyes, making him look like he often stays up late.

The shirt was clean, but the overall white base color didn't look "fresh"; it was slightly dark.

This suggests that although the shirt doesn't look dirty, it must have been bought some time ago and washed several times.

As for the lower body, that's not visible.

But—in short, Fan Bing already had a general impression of Li Xingping.

This is a slightly introverted person who is average at attention to detail, but still maintains basic etiquette when going out and is not disliked.

Following this line of reasoning, she figured the other person was the type who would think, "I'm going to meet someone soon, so I need to take a shower and change into clean clothes."

Just then, she heard Brother Li say, "Manager Zhao, why don't we let General Manager Li talk about his financing plan? 15% equity for 100,000 yuan—if I invest 100,000 yuan, General Manager Li, how would you like to use it?"

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Li Xingping was taken aback.

My first reaction was to look at Zhao Fengrui.

Zhao Fengrui then laughed and said, "I've spoken with President Li. He mainly wants to expand the server space, rent an office, and buy a few computers for daily website maintenance."

Upon hearing this, Li Mu's gaze shifted from Li Xingping to Zhao Fengrui, and then back to Li Xingping.

"I see. Mr. Li, would it be convenient for us to talk about the founding history of HA0123? To be honest, she and I—"

He pointed to Fan Bing beside him and laughed, "We both think this website is so useful. So we've always been curious, how did you create it?"

Let's leave aside what Li Xingping was thinking for now.

Fan Taobing suddenly felt—why was Brother Li interviewing the other person?

As expected, Zhao Fengrui couldn't respond to that, and instead turned to look at Li Xingping.

However, due to the angle, neither Li Mu nor she could see Zhao Fengrui's eyes.

But you could see Ji Xingping first glance at Zhao Fengrui, then look at Li Mu—then lower his head, his fingers unconsciously scratching the tablecloth, and said, "At first—I just thought it was too troublesome. Every day people ask me what this website's URL is, what that website's URL is—how to find a certain website, I found it troublesome, so I created this."

"Did someone ask you?"

"right."

"Excuse me, but what did you do before, Mr. Li?"

"I————uh————"

Li Xingping glanced at Zhao Fengrui subconsciously, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "I work as an internet cafe manager."

"network management?"

Li Mu was somewhat "surprised," while Li Xingping nodded subconsciously: "Yes."

"No wonder he's so proficient in internet technology."

"I'm not an expert. I'm self-taught. I'd never actually worked with website building before, but I got asked a lot of questions by people who came to my internet cafe, so I started doing it to make it easier for me to play games."

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Zhao Fengrui's eye twitched.

Li Xingping also realized that what he said seemed a bit inappropriate.

I subconsciously looked up at the two people opposite me.

However, Mr. Li did not show any other expression, and neither did Fan Bing next to him.

Those beautiful, large eyes were still looking at me, as if they really wanted to hear more.

Instantly, he felt a little relieved and continued, "Because—President Li, Fan—"

"Just call me Bingbing."

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As soon as Fan Linbing uttered those words with a smile, Li Xingping lowered his head again.

To put it a little exaggeratedly, he seemed to lack even the courage to make eye contact.

I no longer have the courage to call out "Bingbing".

Instead, he continued, "Actually, some websites are quite hard to remember. For example, Yahoo!, many people who want to visit this website habitually use the domain name YAHU, not YAHOO. And Sina. Many people still use the pinyin XINLANG, not SINA—although I'm the network administrator, solving problems for people coming to the internet cafe is my job. But—if it's just one or two people asking, that's fine. Before I came up with this, I had to help people type these website domain names hundreds of times every day. I even tried writing down these commonly used domain names and posting them on the wall—but some people still seem blind and keep asking me—"

"Hmm, so this is an idea that arose from a work requirement?"

Surprisingly, Li Mu actually became interested.

He only learned a general outline of Li Xingping's entrepreneurial journey from the wheelchair-bound man.

Zhao Fengrui's cousin, website founder, with huge traffic —

But unexpectedly, when they started talking about it today, he suddenly discovered that the history of this website's founding was quite interesting.

"Yes."

Li Xingping nodded, and at that moment, the waiter pushed the steamer cart in.

The conversation was temporarily interrupted.

Just then, Li Mu suddenly said to the waiter, "Hello, do you have writing paper and pens?"

The waiter pushing the cart was taken aback.

When people come to a teahouse for a meal, they often ask for cigarettes and alcohol, but this was the first time he had ever encountered someone asking for manuscript paper, and for a moment he didn't know how to answer.

Upon hearing this, Zhao Fengrui quickly asked, "What does Mr. Li need the manuscript paper for?"

"Is Manager Zhao here?"

"I did bring it with me—"

He pointed to his bag, which was placed to the side.

"Then I can borrow it for a bit."

Soon, the waiter finished serving the dishes, glanced at Fan Bing again, and then left.

Li Mu accepted the notebook and pen that Zhao Fengrui handed him.

He glanced through the notebook, found some notes, then turned it over, pen in hand, and chuckled, "Manager Zhao, don't you know what my profession is?"

"This—I really don't know."

"Ha, I'm a reporter."

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Amidst their surprised gazes, Li Mu quickly scribbled a line on his notebook: "HA0123 Startup, Li Xingping, Internet cafe manager, created this website based on internet users' demand for complex domain names."

After finishing writing, his eyes lit up slightly after seeing Li Mu's handwriting on Fan Bing's screen. He handed it to Zhao Fengrui and said with a smile, "Putting investment aside, I think Mr. Li's entrepreneurial story is quite suitable for a news interview. I wonder if you two mind?"

As soon as he said it, they both understood.

Zhao Fengrui was alright, but Li Xingping asked somewhat awkwardly, "What do you mean?"

"It's just a short interview with Mr. Li. Of course, we can still discuss investment, but I'm really interested in HA0123's entrepreneurial story and would like to learn more. Mr. Li, is that alright?"

"Well----"

Li Xingping paused, then looked at Zhao Fengrui first, then Li Mu, and finally Fan Bing.

He then nodded: "Okay—okay. No problem."

"Ha, let's start from the beginning then, Mr. Li. How about we begin with some self-introductions?"

"introduce----?"

"Yes, where is Mr. Li from?"

Li Xingping, a native of Xingning, was born into a rural family.

He dropped out of school in the second year of junior high and worked odd jobs.

He had a friend who was a street thug at the time. The two were childhood friends from the same village. After they met by chance in Xingning, his friend said he would take him to broaden his horizons. As a result, he took him to a shady internet cafe with only six computers.

The first game I played was Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Thus, online games opened a door to a new world for him.

From then on, his life became a fixed pattern of "doing odd jobs for a day — earning 25 yuan — going online for a day — running out of money — doing odd jobs — earning 25 yuan — continuing to go online".

When he introduced himself, Zhao Fengrui's face almost turned green.

But—as it turns out, as a journalist, Li Mu has a million ways to get his interviewees to talk.

At least, that's true for Li Xingping.

His internet addiction grew worse and worse, to the point that he became homeless and ended up living and eating in internet cafes.

Finally, he realized that becoming a network administrator was his ultimate dream, rather than doing odd jobs.

Play games for free!

You still get paid!

Food and lodging provided!

This is the ultimate dream!

So, by familiarizing himself with several games at the time, he guided a certain internet cafe owner to win a game of Red Alert against a "medium computer" and got a job as an internet cafe manager.

From then on, the door to a new world was opened.

And what happened next was quite predictable. Just as he said, the people at the internet cafe would ask him for help every day, typing in all sorts of website addresses—which greatly delayed his gaming progress.

Frustrated to the point of exhaustion, Li Xingping first posted website posters, but when that didn't work, an idea suddenly popped into his head: "Why can't I create my own website and combine all these commonly used websites together, so people can find them themselves?"

Thus, the website, originally named Black Apple Not Bright and now called "HA0123", was born.

Inside the teahouse private room, it felt like he was performing a one-man show.

Under the deliberate guidance of reporter Li Mu, the network administrator, born in 79 and only one year older than Li Mu, "sold" the first twenty-two years of his life cleanly.