Rebirth begins with picking up a cold and aloof school beauty

The second period of evening self-study ends, and it's break time.

Chen Zhou, Liang Wenbo, Long Jiajia, and others leaned against the corridor railing, enjoying the breeze and chatting.

A group of spirited young men and women, full of youthful vigor, chatted and laughed.

Everyone reminisced about their more youthful past.

Those vibrant scenes of life and flourishing creatures are still vivid in my mind!

The laughter and chatter came to an abrupt halt as soon as Gao Qin came into view.

Seeing Gao Qin walking towards Class 10, Chen Zhou's classmates all wilted like eggplants and scurried back to the classroom.

Chen Zhou was the boldest of them all. He watched Gao Qin approach and then greeted her with a smile.

"Hello, Teacher Gao."

"Hmm." Gao Qin nodded slightly, her expression unchanged.

In her heart, she thought to herself, "Chen Zhou seems to have become a different person lately. Every time he sees me, he is neither humble nor arrogant, but open and honest."

But on second thought, Gao Qin felt that this was a good idea.

This at least shows that the kid didn't do anything wrong!

Then, Gao Qin stopped at the door of the classroom of the next-door Senior Three (Nine) class.

"Xia Yu, come out for a moment."

Chen Zhou: "?"

What does Teacher Gao want with Xia Yu? Is it to have Xiao Yu help her grade papers again?

Uh...maybe.

After all, the last self-study period is for free review. Xiaoyuer's grades have always been at the top of the grade, making her a true all-rounder. Whether she reviews or not, she is still the "Overlord Fish Princess" that other top students look up to.

Xia Yu came out, and the light in her eyes shone even brighter the moment she saw Chen Zhou.

But given the precedent of a classmate being caught dating early, Xia Yu cleverly pretended not to see Chen Zhou.

The two of them tacitly kept a low profile.

Gao Qin led Xia Yu away and downstairs. Chen Zhou watched from the second floor as their figures disappeared from view.

Chen Zhou: "?"

What did they go about?

·

Half an hour later, at Xia Yu's maternal grandmother's house.

A Volkswagen sedan stopped to the right of the Rolls-Royce, and a Porsche drove in and stopped to the left of the Rolls-Royce.

Gao Qin, Xia Yu, and Gao Qin's husband got out of the Volkswagen sedan.

Gao Meng and Luo Fei emerged from the Porsche Cayenne.

The two sides met and greeted each other warmly.

Luo Fei said, "Uncle, my parents told me you've become the vice principal? That's like good news from the delivery room—you've been promoted!"

Lu Shuren smiled and said, "Whether I'm the vice principal or not, it's all for the sake of teaching and nurturing students."

Luo Fei said, "Uncle, we're all family here today, so please don't give me those polite words."

"I must have a couple more drinks with you today!"

"Come on! Our whole family will celebrate with you!"

Lu Shuren said, "Tonight is to celebrate your grandmother's birthday."

Luo Fei said, "It was just a small thing!"

With that, Luo Fei grabbed his uncle's wrist and headed upstairs, saying, "We won't leave until we're drunk!"

Lu Shuren said, "I still have to drive back tonight!"

Luo Fei said, "It's the same whether my aunt drives it or not."

Seeing her son "perform well" in front of others like this, Gao Meng was speechless.

I was furious!

They all have the Gao family genes, so how come Xiaoyuer is so lovable and perfect?

At this moment, Luo Fei stood by the second-floor railing and called down, "Little Fish, your dad wants you to come up."

"?"

Xia Yu was stunned. Her father was back from his business trip?

The next second, Xia Yu's bright eyes sparkled with surprise as she ran upstairs.

Gao Qin was walking towards the stairwell when Gao Meng suddenly called out to her.

"Big sister, I have something I'd like to ask you."

Gao Qin stopped and said, "Speak."

Gao Meng asked, "Do you have a classmate named Chen Zhou at Tangzhong?"

"?"

Gao Qin looked at her second sister with a suspicious expression.

"She's a senior in high school, in the same grade as Xiaoyuer," Gao Meng added.

Gao Qin still didn't answer, but instead asked, "Why are you suddenly asking me this?"

Gao Meng truthfully replied, "Luo Fei said he recently met a friend named Chen Zhou, who is a senior in your Tangzhong High School. Luo Fei also said that Chen Zhou is exceptionally good at computers. Is that true?"

Gao Qin thought for a moment, nodded, and replied, "Chen Zhou does have some talent for computers. He participated in the National High School Informatics Competition and even won a provincial first prize in the preliminary round."

Upon hearing this, Gao Meng was astonished. The top student in the entire province was described as having "a little" talent?

So, Luo Fei's brother really is a genius hacker?

At this moment, Gao Qin asked again, "How did Luo Fei and Chen Zhou meet?"

Gao Meng thought for a moment, deciding not to reveal the truth for the time being, and made up an excuse, "They were fighting..."

Gao Meng had just opened her mouth when Gao Qin interrupted her sternly, saying, "Gao Meng, you need to keep a close eye on your son!"

"It's best to stay away from Chen Zhou!" Gao Qin warned.

Gao Meng: "???"

Gao Qin continued with a serious expression, "Chen Zhou is a student at Tangzhong High School. If Luo Fei dares to bully, harass, or provoke him, and something happens to Chen Zhou, don't blame me for turning my back on him as his aunt!"

Upon hearing this, Gao Meng was immediately displeased.

She snapped, "Sister, what do you mean?! Does my son only know how to fight and cause trouble?!"

Gao Qin said, "What? You're not familiar with your son?"

Gao Meng: "…………"

Gao Meng's face flushed with suppressed anger. After a long while, once Gao Qin had gone upstairs, she called out to her retreating figure.

"bias!!"

After the two sisters argued like that, Gao Meng lost the mood to ask Xiao Yu'er about Chen Zhou.

·

It was near the end of the third evening self-study session at Haitang Middle School.

Chen Zhou slipped out of the classroom and went to the homeroom teacher's office.

"Teacher Li, are you playing Spider Solitaire again?" Chen Zhou joked with a smile.

Li Guoling turned to look at Chen Zhou. "Why are you here looking for me instead of studying?"

Chen Zhou got straight to the point: "Teacher Li, I would like to ask for a day off."

He made up an excuse: "I've been having a lot of nosebleeds lately, and I want to go to the hospital for a check-up tomorrow during the day."

Chen Zhou's reason was not entirely fabricated. During his high school years, he did experience frequent nosebleeds, sometimes several times a day, which frightened him so much that he thought he had some kind of terminal illness.

Upon examination, the doctor said it was just nasal septum erosion, and that it would get better after using medication for a period of time.

Upon hearing this, Li Guoling took it seriously, but also hesitated.

He said, "Given your condition, you definitely need to get checked out; your health comes first!"

"But you have several exams tomorrow—physics, chemistry, and biology. Why don't you finish them and go the day after?"

Exams? And they'll test physics, chemistry, and biology?

Upon hearing this, Chen Zhou felt an urge to cosplay a teru teru bozu (a Japanese doll-shaped doll).

I need to take leave because I have to take the combined science exam!

Chen Zhou said, "Teacher Li, that's what I thought at first too. I love taking exams! Especially the combined science exams!"

Chen Zhou spoke with great conviction, but quickly changed the subject.

He added, "But I was thinking that if I found out something, it would be better to get checked and treated as soon as possible."

Li Guoling's face darkened, and he said, "How can you do this, cursing yourself like this?"

The homeroom teacher of Class 14 at the next table, a young female teacher in her mid-twenties, couldn't help but laugh and interject, "Teacher Li, Chen Zhou's combined science score is 280 or 290! He can take the test a few less times without any problem."

Li Guoling scrutinized Chen Zhou, who puffed out his chest and adopted a haughty expression, as if he had been praised.

It replicates the emoji of Lu Bu, played by Peter Ho.

Li Guoling thought so too. He suggested that Chen Zhou go to the hospital for a check-up, and also give the other students in the class a chance to get first place in Physics, Chemistry and Biology.

Li Guoling agreed, "Okay, I'll approve it!"

Ring ring ring~

The school bell rang, signaling the end of the school term.

Under the cover of night, Chen Zhou, holding the leave slip he had finally obtained, hummed a little tune as he filed out with the rest of the group.

In the end, however, he walked alone in the opposite direction from the residential area.

In those days, express delivery was far less fast than in later generations. The computer parts Chen Zhou bought online were still on their way, so he didn't plan to wait any longer.

We went straight to an internet cafe and used the computers there to complete the development of the company's official website.

·

Feiyu Internet Cafe.

As soon as Chen Zhou entered, he saw the internet cafe manager girl named "Xiao Yu".

Chen Zhou stepped forward and said, "Sister Xiaoyu."

Xiaoyu was resting on the table when she looked up and saw Chen Zhou. She immediately perked up and said, "Brother Zhou, you can just call me Xiaoyu."

Chen Zhou said, "Okay, Xiaoyu, how much for the whole night?"

Xiaoyu asked, "Brother Zhou, are you going to stay up all night? Aren't you going to school tomorrow?"

Chen Zhou said, "I took a day off."

Xiaoyu said "Oh," seemingly understanding but not quite, and then said, "It's 5 yuan outside for an overnight stay, and 8 yuan inside the private room."

Xiaoyu then added, "But Fei-ge said that you can use the internet here for free!"

Chen Zhou smiled and said, "Luo Fei is quite generous. Then get me a bucket of instant noodles, two sausages, and a bottle of Coke."

"Okay." Xiaoyu responded and went to get it. Soon after, she had brewed it for Chen Zhou and brought it over.

Chen Zhou gave Xiaoyu a 20 yuan note.

Xiaoyu was taken aback. "What's this?"

Chen Zhou said, "The cost of internet access and these things."

Xiaoyu stammered, "Isn't that inappropriate?"

Chen Zhou asked, "Luo Fei told you that these are also free for me?"

Xiaoyu thought for a moment, then shook her head and said, "No, but it shouldn't matter. You're Fei Ge's older brother, so these things belong to him. What's his is yours, and what's yours is his."

Chen Zhou joked, "We're not a couple, so what's his is mine, and what's mine is still mine."

Xiaoyu: "?"

Chen Zhou added, "Besides, the real owners of the internet cafe are Luo Fei's parents. If his parents find out that Luo Fei is offering me services for free, wouldn't that be bad? Wouldn't that be infringing on his parents' legal rights?"

Xiaoyu said, "But..."

Chen Zhou said earnestly, "There's no 'but' about it. Public matters are public matters, and private matters are private matters. That's what integrity is all about."

"Integrity must start with me!"

Chen Zhou spoke with great conviction, but in reality, he was getting a little cocky now that he had 5000 yuan in his hands.

Furthermore, and most importantly, if you accept small favors from others now, you'll be forced to accept them later when business actually starts, and you might suffer a great loss because of that.

The debts of gratitude for small favors are the hardest to repay!

In a private room, Chen Zhou turned on his computer, immediately downloaded programming software, and configured the development environment.

Meanwhile, he enjoyed a fragrant bowl of ham sausage instant noodles.

Xiaoyu came over and peeked in, then asked curiously, "Brother Zhou, are you going to play games all night tonight? Or is there some new hacking operation going on?"

Chen Zhou slurped up a mouthful of bouncy instant noodles and explained, "First of all, I'm not a hacker, I'm a red-hat hacker, a geek."

"Secondly, I'm not playing games or doing anything tonight."

"Third, I'm here to develop the official website for Luo Fei's family's company."

Xiaoyu suddenly realized, "So that's how it is."

She laughed and said, "Brother Zhou, aren't you in too much of a hurry? Although I'm a layman, I know that developing a corporate website takes a lot of time, at least ten days to half a month, right?"

"You can take your time, Fei-ge's family isn't in a rush."

Chen Zhou said, "I know they're not in a hurry, but I am. I'm usually busy with classes, studying, and exams, so I have to make the most of this day off to get the website up and running."

Xiaoyu: "???"

She was stunned for a long time. "One...one day?"

Xiaoyu could hardly believe her ears.

How could you possibly create a company website in just one day?

Chen Zhou laughed and said, "Don't believe me? Then we'll see in a day."

Xiaoyu made an "uh" sound, gave an awkward smile, and didn't dare to respond.

But no matter how she looked at it, she felt that Chen Zhou was bragging.

She has relatives who are programmers, so although she is a novice in website development, she has some understanding of it.

It's absolutely impossible to do that in a day!

Typing out code line by line must take quite a bit of time, not to mention other tedious tasks.

Xiaoyu didn't believe Chen Zhou could do it.

Impossible! Absolutely impossible!!

·

at the same time.

After finishing his instant noodles, Chen Zhou plugged in the USB drive Luo Fei had given him and looked at the data again.

"Lanhai Real Estate," Chen Zhou murmured with a smile.

Chen Zhou had heard of this real estate development company.

Although Lanhai Real Estate is not a big name in Chengdu, it is quite well-known in the nearby Guangdu District.

They have developed numerous residential housing projects.

"So, Luo Fei's family still uses local weapons and firearms."

Chen Zhou smiled and then began his 24-hour website development journey.

He first went to two open-source websites, GitHub and Stack Overflow.

Since both websites were launched one after the other in 2008, they don't even require a VPN to access them from within China.

Even many programmers in China are unaware of these two websites.

They are even less aware that there are many classic and diverse open-source projects on sites like GitHub.

These are all works uploaded by programmers and engineers around the world out of love, based on the three early Internet principles of "openness, sharing, and collaboration".

—Later everyone realized that helping others also helps yourself. In the journey of technology, there will always be problems that you can't figure out no matter how hard you try, but an expert has already solved them for you.

Chen Zhou is standing on the shoulders of giants again, and quickly found an open-source project that can be used as a benchmark.

A lightweight, open-source project for a residential real estate company's official website.

Furthermore, the approach determines efficiency.

Chen Zhou is not like the "old-fashioned" programmers of 2008 who wrote code line by line by hand.

His development philosophy was the more advanced one used in later generations—modularization, copy and paste, search and debugging…

Two hours later, Chen Zhou had selected the company website template and opened the source code.

Six hours later, Chen Zhou finished modifying the front-end code, replacing the text and images, implementing interactive effects, and resolving compatibility issues with major browsers, especially the infamous IE6 browser.

Ten hours later, Chen Zhou completed the backend development and deployment.

The backend functions, including login, publishing, editing, and database, have all been implemented.

It was already dawn. Chen Zhou, who had stayed up all night, stretched and yawned.

Feeling a bit too tired, Chen Zhou got up and went to the cashier, nudging the arm of the sleeping Xiaoyu.

"Give me another bowl of instant noodles, and two sausages with it."

Xiaoyu nodded listlessly, "Okay, Brother Zhou, anything else?"

Chen Zhou said, "Give me two more cans of Red Bull, and bring them to my private room later. Thank you for your help."

Chen Zhou paid the bill, turned around and went back into the private room to continue his work.

Connect the front-end page with the back-end PHP.

Tested on local and rented virtual hosting.

Let's test it to see if there are any bugs.

A short while later, Xiaoyu entered the private room carrying instant noodles and a Red Bull, and gently placed the items on the table.

Xiaoyu glanced at Chen Zhou's computer screen and asked curiously, "Brother Zhou, what are you doing? What's the progress?"

Chen Zhou said, "It's all integrated now, and we're starting the debugging process."

Xiaoyu, a complete novice, was left with a blank stare: "???"

Confused, she asked, "What do you mean?"

Chen Zhou pulled the tab on a Red Bull can, took a sip, and explained, "If the tests go smoothly, we can go live and deliver it."

Xiaoyu asked in surprise, "You mean... it's almost done? Only ten hours have passed!"

Chen Zhou laughed and said, "But testing is never without problems, and fixing bugs and debugging is very troublesome."

Seeing that Xiaoyu still looked puzzled, Chen Zhou added, "In short, we can definitely get it done today!"

“…………”

Xiaoyu's eyelids twitched and her lips twitched; she looked at Chen Zhou as if she had seen a ghost.

Dude, are you even human? You got a company website up and running in just one day? I still don't believe it!

With a sense of surprise, Xiaoyu left the private room and quickly called Luo Fei.

But no matter whether she called or sent a message on QQ, she couldn't get in touch with the other party.

Until noon, the warm sun was high in the sky.

Xiaoyu finally received a call from Luo Fei, whose lazy voice came from the other end.

"Hey? Xiaoyu, why are you calling me like crazy? Is there a fight going on at the internet cafe?"

Xiaoyu said, "No! Boss, it's Brother Zhou!"

Luo Fei immediately perked up and asked anxiously, "Brother Zhou? What happened to him? Which bastard dared to touch my brother?!"

Xiaoyu said, "No, no, it's Zhou-ge who said he's almost finished with the website."

"???"

Upon hearing this, Luo Fei was filled with questions. "Website? What website? The website of my Lanhai Real Estate?"

Xiaoyu said, "Yes!"

"????"

Now, Luo Fei had even more questions in his mind.

What does it mean when you say "My website is almost done"?

I just handed over the website development to Brother Zhou yesterday evening!

It's only been less than a day!

Luo Fei felt that this news was too surreal. He quickly got dressed, determined to go to an internet cafe to broaden his horizons.

Witness what "Chen Zhou speed" really means!