The younger generation, starting from where the wind blows...

Chapter 3 Xie Zhiyao: My Damn Competitive Spirit
In the class group.

After Xie Zhiyao's efforts to explain, the truth finally came to light.

Things were completely different from what everyone imagined.

When Xie Zhiyao was eight years old, he stole a skirt from a middle school girl at Yang Muye's instigation and wore it. As a result, he was almost beaten to death by his grandmother.

Xie Zhiyao also emphasized that at the time he was a chubby boy weighing nearly 50 kilograms and was very mischievous.

He's grown up like he's undergone cosmetic surgery; his appearance is very different from when he was a child.

Unlike Yang Muye, who was handsome from childhood to adulthood.

After that, no one in the class group chat mentioned the women's clothing anymore.

"So, which university in Yenching did Makino apply to?"

After chatting for so long, someone in the class group finally remembered to ask about something important.

Before replying to the message, Xie Zhiyao glanced to the side.

Yang Muye was registering a campus network account and was currently filling in his university information.

After selecting Yanjing as the region, a list of universities appeared in the drop-down menu. Yang Muye scrolled the mouse wheel and quickly found his target.

Yenching University of Economics and Business.

A university that did not exist in the previous life.

Although it's only a 211 university, the application scores for Yenching University are almost catching up with those for Renmin University.

When Yang Muyi was filling out his college application, he specifically looked up information about the school. Wow, it's just a nested version of UIBE!
Of course, this is just a metaphor; in reality, these are two different schools and should not be confused.

Yenching University of Economics and Business doesn't have the same prestigious reputation as the "two finance and one trade" universities, but its admission scores are just as high.

It's a hidden gem of a school!
Yang Muye's goal was to apply to a 211 university in Beijing, preferably one with a finance-related major, so he listed this school as his first choice in the first batch of applications.

As for my major, I blindly chose business administration.

It's also because Professor Xuefeng only started teaching this year and hasn't yet begun guiding students on college applications online; otherwise, he would have been quite knowledgeable about this.

Hey student, did you choose this major because your family is rich?
Business administration is a useless major for ordinary people. Expecting a boss to hire someone with no experience who can only talk the talk to walk the walk to manage the company is wishful thinking.

But Yang Muye is certainly not an ordinary person.

When he was choosing his major, he really had a fortune waiting to be inherited, and choosing business administration was a perfect fit for him.

Who would have thought that a bullet fired just a month ago would now hit him right between the eyebrows?

Seeing that Yang Muye hadn't selected his major after choosing his department, Xie Zhiyao already knew how to reply in the group chat.

"Muye applied to Yenching University of Economics and Business, majoring in finance. By the way, does anyone know Renren.com? I'm planning to register for one. If anyone uses it, remember to add each other as friends!"

That was a very skillful way to shift the topic.

When the school's intranet is mentioned, far fewer people talk in the class group.

Renren.com is only popular among college students; many people have never even heard of the website before entering university.

Xie Zhiyao knew about Renren.com from a group of freshmen from universities in the capital that he wanted to add Yang Muye to.

At that time, the slogan of Renren.com was still "Go to Renren and find friends".

Yang Muyi registered on Renren.com not to find any friends, but because Renren.com had just announced earlier this month that it would follow the example of foreign SNS websites like Facebook and launch an open platform to support third-party developers in providing web applications for Renren.com users.

Along with announcing this news, Renren.com also launched a creative programming competition.

Yang Muyi registered an account and logged in to find the competition homepage.

Skip the competition introduction and entry process, and go directly to the work display.

I glanced at the app with the most users right now: body measurement.

Once you click in, you'll find the function is very simple: just enter your height, weight, and age, and you'll get a body mass score.

After Yang Muyi entered his height of 187 cm, weight of 73 kg, and age, he received a score of 81 and the evaluation that he was too thin and needed to strengthen his exercise.

That's it?

It feels like my intelligence has been insulted.

When he saw the pop-up option on the page asking whether to generate an image and link to post to the school's "Moments" (WeChat's social media circle), Yang Muye decisively chose not to post it.

Returning to the work showcase page, having learned his lesson, Yang Muye lost interest in opening any of the apps with a large user base.

He then tried a few more mini-games, but they were just so-so.

After all, the first prize is only 100,000 yuan, and there is only one winner, so it is not likely to attract many experienced internet users.

It's a good tool for beginners to practice.

As for the idea that popular works can attract venture capital attention, that's just wishful thinking.

In his previous life, Yang Muye had dealt with these venture capitalists many times and knew what kind of people they were.

They're the type who won't act until they see a clear benefit.

Finally, in the drop-down page, Yang Muyi found an idiom spelling game, clicked on it, and played a few rounds.

It's purely for killing time; playing it the whole time is no different from playing a single-player game.

The only social aspect is the game completion record after the game ends, which shows how many levels you passed today and your ranking among your friends.

It's a bit better than the body measurement app, but it still has a pop-up asking if you want to post a "Moments" update on Renren (the school's online community platform).

Yang Muye still chose not to issue a statement.

After exiting, I wanted to find other games to play, but my mouse unconsciously hovered over the game developer's name before immediately moving back.

Mount Maqiu?
Yang Muye glanced at Xie Zhiyao, who was still busy registering a Renren account, and thought to himself, "Could it be such a coincidence?"

With nothing else to do, Yang Muye searched for the name Ma Qiushan on the school's intranet. Among the college students registered on the intranet nationwide, there were more than thirty people named Ma Qiushan, but Yang Muye found his target at a glance.

A 26-year-old master's student in the Computer Science Department of Yenching University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, who just graduated this year.

In addition, his profile picture shows him looking so high-spirited, practically radiating arrogance.

It has to be him.

The idiom puzzle game I just played was actually developed by Maqiushan. Yang Muye can only say that the world is sometimes really small.

Because he was eager to start his own business, Yang Muye went to the programming competition on Renren.com to try out these mini-games and see if he could find one or two suitable business partners.

I came here just to try my luck, without having high hopes.

Now——

Yang Muye really needs to play this idiom puzzle game properly.

My impression is that Ma Qiushan blindly chased trends during his entrepreneurial journey, yet he managed to repeatedly misjudge Xie Zhiyao, a future elite in venture capital. This suggests that Ma Qiushan must have exceptional abilities.

Moreover, Yang Muye himself is currently riding the wave of opportunity.

Just as I was about to enter the game, I suddenly received a friend request on the school's intranet.

Upon closer inspection, it was a message from Xie Zhiyao.

Xie Zhiyao applied to the Central University of Finance and Economics, and the admission information can be found on the recruitment website, but the admission notice has not yet been sent.

After adding each other as friends, Xie Zhiyao immediately turned around to talk to Yang Muye, only to find that Yang Muye was engrossed in playing a Chinese idiom puzzle game.

Yang Muyi cleared all 18 levels in one go before the game ended.

Just as Xie Zhiyao was about to speak, Yang Muye suddenly said:

"Want to play a round?"

"Is this game fun?" Xie Zhiyao didn't think so. He only felt it was quite boring when he watched Yang Muyi play it.

"Let's see if you can surpass me," Yang Muye continued to urge.

Upon hearing about the competition, Xie Zhiyao immediately became interested.

From childhood to adulthood, Xie Zhiyao had always been secretly competing with Yang Muye.

They compare height, appearance, academic performance... and finally, they compare college entrance exam scores.

Xie Zhiyao has been consistently in second place, and he's starting to feel a bit paranoid about it.

Fortunately, when it came time to apply to universities, Yang Muyi applied to the unremarkable Yenching University of Economics and Business, while Xie Zhiyao applied to the Central University of Finance and Economics.

This can be considered a comeback.

Now that Yang Muye has issued a challenge to him face-to-face, he can no longer back down.

Moreover, he had just watched Yang Muyi play the whole game and didn't find it particularly difficult. He was confident that he could complete more than 20 levels.

Guided by Yang Muye, Xie Zhiyao opened the game.

Once you actually start playing, you'll find that this game isn't that simple. All the levels are randomized, which means that if you're lucky, several levels in a row will be easy, but if you're unlucky, a single level can keep you stuck for a long time.

Xie Zhiyao was one of the unlucky ones; he only made it to level 15 before the game ended.

Unwilling to give up, he chose to try again.

I played all 20 levels in one go this time.

Xie Zhiyao was fairly satisfied with his results this time; as long as he surpassed Yang Muyi's 18 levels, that was fine.

The game's completion log showed that he ranked second among his friends.

Looking at Yang Muyi, who was ranked first, his best score had become 32 levels.

Turning his head, he met Yang Muye's gaze.

Yang Muye shrugged, indicating that he was just lucky in the last game.

Xie Zhiyao believed this, but he was not convinced.

The third attempt began immediately.

Unfortunately, his good luck ran out in the first two rounds, and he only made it to level 13 on his third attempt.

Unfortunately, this game can only be played three times a day, and Xie Zhiyao's mentality collapsed.

How did I lose to Yang Muye again?

After a moment's hesitation, Xie Zhiyao finally spoke.

Are you coming online again tomorrow?

"your treat?"

Yang Muyi saw through Xie Zhiyao's thoughts at a glance. Unconvinced, he wanted to fight again tomorrow.

Because the game's records are refreshed daily, it wouldn't matter if Xie Zhiyao broke the record of level 32 even if Yang Muye didn't play tomorrow.

That's the charm of social games.

Social interaction comes first, gaming second.

"I'll pay for your internet, but I won't cover your nutritional drinks," Xie Zhiyao emphasized.

"Two bottles of nutritional drinks, otherwise I can't guarantee I won't deliberately let you win the game tomorrow. Even if you win, I won't feel any sense of accomplishment," Yang Muye said calmly.

Xie Zhiyao stared at Yang Muye with his mouth wide open.

Are you the devil?
(End of this chapter)