Chapter 9 : Thought of a Way to Make Money
Chapter 9: Thought of a Way to Make Money
"Did you quarrel with Chen Fan?"
Facing her friend's inquiry, Su Ruochu shook her head.
"No."
"Then why didn't he talk to you during lunch, and it seemed like he was avoiding you just now?"
Su Ruochu didn't speak, pursing her lips and staring at the figures of Chen Fan and Guo Shuai running away.
A thought flashed through her mind.
"Could it be that I hurt his self-esteem by rejecting him the other day?"
At this moment, Su Ruochu herself didn't know what she was feeling.
Seeing that Su Ruochu didn't speak, Li Na hurriedly came over and linked arms with her.
"Hey, tell me the truth, do you like Chen Fan?"
Su Ruochu's pretty face immediately turned red.
"What... what are you talking about?"
"When did I start liking him?"
"The other day he suddenly kissed you during class, and you didn't even get mad."
Su Ruochu felt a bit awkward: "He said he was dreaming, it wasn't intentional..."
"You really don't like him?"
Seeing Li Na's insistence, Su Ruochu shook her head helplessly.
"It's not about liking or not liking, it's that I wouldn't consider these things before the college entrance exam."
"That's true."
Li Na muttered, "There's less than a month left until the exam."
"Even if you two got together, it would only be a sunset romance before graduation..."
"Chen Fan is really something, he's been your deskmate for so long, why is he only realizing it now."
"It's almost graduation and he's just getting anxious. But..."
"But what?"
Su Ruochu looked over curiously.
Li Na giggled and joked casually.
"But Chen Fan is actually quite handsome, especially those eyes of his, he looks really good when he smiles."
"It's just that I've heard his family's conditions aren't that great, otherwise I might have tried going out with him."
Su Ruochu stared at her friend with wide eyes, then suddenly reached out and pinched her arm.
"What... what are you thinking about all day?"
"Of course I'm thinking about handsome guys, don't tell me you've never secretly thought about it..."
"I haven't!"
"Hehehe, I don't believe you!"
"You brat, come back here..."
The two girls chased each other all the way to school.
On the other side, once inside the White Birch Forest and deftly getting a temporary card, Chen Fan couldn't wait to run and turn on a computer.
"I'm telling you, did we really have to play games today?"
Guo Shuai looked disgruntled beside him.
"Buddy, you finally had some progress with Li Na, and you're openly destroying our relationship..."
"Less talk! It'll be ready soon."
Chen Fan excitedly opened a webpage and entered some content to start searching.
Just now, a flash of inspiration had struck his mind.
He thought of a way to make money.
Yesterday, Chen Fan had spent half a day researching domain names, but found that all the good domain names he thought of had already been registered by others.
Buying and selling domain names was temporarily not going to work.
But he could take a different route and create a website specifically for buying and selling domain names.
In fact, Chen Fan had to thank Mr. Yao from 59.com for this idea.
In his previous life, Yao Jinbo held a large number of domain names, and in order to facilitate domain name transactions, the guy founded Yiyu.com.
Within just a few months, Yiyu.com became the largest domain name trading platform in China.
That same year, Yiyu.com was acquired by Wanwang, and Yao Jinbo received the first pot of gold in his life.
There were no detailed accounts online of exactly how much Yiyu.com sold for, some said tens of millions, some said hundreds of millions.
But Chen Fan estimated that it definitely wouldn't be less than one million.
Keep in mind, this was one million in the year 2000.
Chen Fan came to the White Birch Forest this time to confirm whether Yiyu.com had already launched or not.
A few minutes later, Chen Fan excitedly slammed his fist on the table.
"Great. It really hasn't launched yet."
Yiyu.com hadn't launched yet, which proved that he still had a chance.
From now on, he had to hurry up and create Yiyu.com first, successfully preempting it before Mr. Yao could react.
Chen Fan remembered that in his previous life, Yiyu.com seemed to have been acquired by Wanwang in September of this year.
That meant he had less than four months left.
The time was tight, but it was worth a try.
Beside him, Guo Shuai couldn't help but lean over and take a look when he saw Chen Fan sitting at the computer grinning like an idiot.
He found that Chen Fan was just looking at an ordinary news webpage.
"Hey, did you drink your wife's pee? Why are you smiling so happily?"
Chen Fan turned and grinned, "Really?"
"Really...? If you open your mouth any wider, I'll be able to see your prostate."
"Idiot! That's the thyroid gland."
"Brother, you really need to study biology better."
Guo Shuai wasn't embarrassed and just grinned.
"You know me, I get sleepy as soon as class starts. In biology class, except for the few lessons on human physiology and health at the end that interested me, I don't understand anything else..."
Guo Shuai suddenly remembered something and said angrily,
"Damn it! Speaking of which, I'm pissed. Do you know how long I waited just to get to those two lessons on physiological structure? In the end, the biology teacher just had us preview those few pages on our own and skipped right over them..."
Chen Fan didn't bother with this guy's nonsense and directly shut down the computer and stood up.
"Let's go."
"Leaving already?"
Guo Shuai stared wide-eyed.
"It hasn't even been an hour yet, how about letting me play a round of Red Alert?"
"We're leaving, leaving. The next class is with the class monitor, you dare skip it?"
Chen Fan said as he dragged his friend out.
"Let me play one round, just one round... We paid money, it's a shame to waste it..."
In the end, Guo Shuai didn't get to play and was forcibly dragged back to school by Chen Fan.
During the afternoon classes, Chen Fan was too excited to even look for practice questions.
He kept his head down, writing and doodling with his pen.
For a programming expert like him who had been reborn from the future, creating a forum or website wasn't difficult at all.
What Chen Fan was worried about was whether Mr. Yao's Yiyu.com would launch before his own.
If the other party also launched, the two websites would inevitably compete in a bloody battle for traffic.
And to gain the upper hand, he would have to promote and advertise.
That would require a lot of money.
Moreover, to create a forum, he would need a computer himself.
He couldn't go work at an internet cafe every day, right?
Not to mention being able to reserve a spot.
More importantly, it would waste too much time.
For Chen Fan's current situation, buying a personal computer was simply a pipe dream.
Laptops in 2000 cost over ten thousand yuan.
Even the cheapest desktops cost over five thousand, and those were garbage configurations...
Money, money, money...
In the end, what really stumped him was money.
Chen Fan frowned, feeling a bit depressed as he looked at the list he had written on the paper, his expression unsightly.
The previous excitement and enthusiasm seemed to have been doused with a bucket of cold water.
Instantly drenched in a bone-chilling coldness.
Alas, even a hero has difficulty without money.
Beside him, Su Ruochu was distracted in class for the first time.
Although she was sitting upright, her mind kept wandering aimlessly.
She wondered if she had upset Chen Fan.
Otherwise, why didn't he actively talk to her today?
Moreover, this guy had been lying there writing and doodling ever since the start of class, muttering to himself, she didn't know what he was up to.
She wanted to ask him about it but felt too awkward.
She struggled with this for most of the class, and as it was about to end, Su Ruochu could no longer hold back.
She picked up her pen and wrote a line on her notebook, then quietly pushed it over and nudged Chen Fan with her elbow.