In this year, 1998.

Speaking of computer software, people immediately think of Silicon Valley.

The software application market in Hong Kong City is almost completely dominated by foreign products.

After much effort, a local company called tAt was finally born. Although its user base is still small, Su Yehao's background makes it a popular topic, which has brought some attention to him and the company he founded.

More and more people like Zhao Yimeng are proactively seeking financing and cooperation.

Occasionally, investors from Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, and the United States have also set their sights on tAt, which has a promising future. Institutions often arrange for employees to visit tAt's headquarters.

People like personal spaces, personalized signatures, group chats, and other features, which make social interaction more interesting and create a brand-new online dating model. The soaring number of users has proven that it does have the foundation for great success.

On the American NASDAQ market, the list of software companies with a total market value exceeding one billion US dollars continues to grow, giving people a glimpse of a new path to wealth. Under such circumstances, tAt Network Company inevitably attracts attention.

Su Yehao not only rejected Zhao Yimeng, but also turned away any other individuals and companies seeking cooperation.

Other entrepreneurs might have succumbed to the onslaught of sugar-coated bullets, but Su Yehao's potential investors often left with nothing but frustration, after all, his parents were simply too rich.

People couldn't do anything about him, so some investors chose to imitate him and develop similar instant messaging products, such as Uncle Qiu's son, Qiu Yaohe.

Young Master Qiu has high ambitions and doesn't care about Hong Kong City. He has already gone to the United States to start a business, reportedly with a start-up capital of thirty million US dollars...

After sending Zhao Yimeng to the Donghuang Group.

Su Yehao drove to find Yin Liuli, sitting in her apartment in a daze.

Yin Liuli, who had obviously noticed that Su Yehao was preoccupied and whose health had improved, held a warm cup of honey water and asked softly, "Was the signing this morning smooth? You look so preoccupied, are you feeling unwell, and did I infect you?"

Su Yehao snapped out of his thoughts, put his arm around her, and smiled:

"No, I'm fine, and the signing this morning went smoothly. Do you remember that in March, I told you about Miss Zhao from Donghuang Group entrusting me with managing her money? She just decided to withdraw the money and invest in my tAt instead."

Yin Liuli asked, "And then?"

"Nothing, I rejected her outright. I need to raise some money these days to return her principal and interest."

Su Yehao then said:

"I'm not worried about these things, it's just that tAt has become more popular than before, and more people may be paying attention to it than I imagined. Some products that imitate it are emerging, which may be troublesome. I was just thinking about where to draw some funds from to speed up the pace of acquiring new customers. I don't know how long one hundred million Hong Kong dollars can last. There will probably be pressure in the future, and we'll have to start burning money."

So far, tAt's expansion model has been relatively laid-back.

Few people outside care about the mainland market, which is still considered a poor place by most.

Moreover, even if competitors emerge, their capital and technical strength cannot compare with Su Yehao's, which has obviously become his backyard for barbaric expansion.

In addition to the relatively independent mainland version of tAt, the previously acquired document tool, WPS, has also begun to fight back.

The price of WPS documents has been reduced again and again. The full-featured genuine program sells for only nine yuan and nine jiao, and the basic version is free to download and use. Market share has rebounded to around 75%, mainly because there are too few genuine Word users, which has led Microsoft to almost abandon the mainland market.

With the traditional Chinese version of WPS, sold in Hong Kong City, Taiwan, and other places for twenty-nine Hong Kong dollars, it has even taken a portion of the office market share that originally belonged to Microsoft.

The so-called "portion" is only more than 20,000 copies sold, with a total sales of only a few hundred thousand.

Total sales at home and abroad were only more than four million RMB last year, so Su Yehao chose to let go and let Yinhai develop freely, trying to maintain existing business while expanding into portal websites and online games.

After hearing Su Yehao's words, Yin Liuli thought he was really under a lot of "pressure", so she comforted him:

"You're already amazing. Looking at the whole world, how many people can be found who are more amazing than you at your age? I think work is important, but living comfortably and taking care of your health are more important than making money, especially for someone like you who doesn't lack money at all."

She tried very hard to enlighten Su Yehao.

Su Yehao's attention, however, was focused on her neck, and he blinked and smiled: "Don't worry about me, I'm just being nosy and worrying about nothing. If anyone dares to overtake me, I'll just spend money to acquire them. Is your body feeling better? Why don't we exercise a little and sweat, maybe you'll recover immediately."

How could Yin Liuli not understand what he meant, and said speechlessly:

"Okay, but don't嫌弃 me if I suddenly have a runny nose. I might also suddenly faint, see how you'll explain it to the doctor then."

Su Yehao looked indifferent, shook his head with a smile and said, "It's okay, you just lie down, and leave the rest to me. We'll just take it slow..."

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Due to Yin Liuli's illness, he stayed in Casino for another day.

The next morning.

He unexpectedly received a call from Baoya Jun.

As soon as Su Yehao answered, Baoya Jun's loud voice came from the other end of the phone, shouting:

"Wow! It's really hard to see Brother Hao these days. Sure enough, once you have a wife, you forget your brothers. If I hadn't seen the news in the newspaper, I wouldn't have known you were back in Casino!"

"I've been busy and always wanted to treat you guys to a meal."

After Su Yehao perfunctorily said, he asked, "You guys are back in Casino? Today is Wednesday, it's not a holiday, what are you doing back?"

"We're going to the Lisboa. I heard there's a stunning beauty working as a dealer there. Someone asked her, and she doesn't have a boyfriend yet, so we took a boat back..."

Before Baoya Jun could finish speaking, there was a commotion on the other end of the phone.

It seemed that He Shaofan and Zhugan were scolding Baoya Jun for being a pig brain, and saying that Brother Hao shouldn't be allowed to hear such important news, obviously wary of Su Yehao's style of taking everything for himself.

There was no way around it, Su Yehao was not only richer than them, but also more handsome and more successful. He was usually the most popular with the girls.

Su Yehao listened for a while, and said with a smile, "I didn't have any ideas originally, but since you say I like to hog everything, then I'll go with you. See you at the entrance of the Lisboa later?"

On the other end of the phone.

He Shaofan's grumbling continued, sounding powerless no matter how you listened.

Remembering the newspaper Baoya Jun mentioned, Su Yehao found a newsstand before going to the Lisboa Hotel.

He quickly saw a photo of himself and Zhao Yimeng in a morning newspaper, both smiling, with the headline "Su and Zhao Join Forces, Talented Man and Beautiful Woman, Another Billion-Dollar Tycoon?"

This time it was Su Yehao's turn to grumble.

He was now racking his brains about how to explain it to the little girl when he got back...