?Chapter 30: Episode 30: Start Fresh Again 1 Chapter 30: Episode 30: Start Fresh Again 1 Zhou Xueyin opened her computer and rifled through her previous transfer records to find the recipient’s account number.
“Hmm, you scammed me out of my money! I’ll make sure you can’t get your hands on it either!” Zhou Xueyin said with venom.
The other three people looked at Zhou Xueyin in confusion, having no idea what she planned to do next.
Zhou Xueyin entered the bank account number she had transferred money to into the online banking page, then randomly typed in a few numbers…
“Huh?” The website displayed the following message: “Sorry, you have entered the wrong password too many times, and your bank card has been locked.”
“What? Somebody already did what I wanted to do?” Zhou Xueyin said in surprise as she stared at the screen.
“Yinyin, were you trying to lock the scammer’s bank card?” Kang Siyin figured out what was going on.
“Yes! But it seems someone beat me to it. Look, see for yourselves…” Zhou Xueyin showed the screen to everyone.
“Genius! Right, you should report this to the police immediately and file a report. Who knows, if they catch the scammer, you might be able to recover the money you were conned out of!” Kang Siyin thrust her phone into Zhou Xueyin’s hand.
“Right! Call the police! Got so wrapped up in anger when I got back that I forgot the most important thing.” Zhou Xueyin quickly dialed 110.
It turned out that the incident of being swindled out of the internet package money by the fake Ying Haiwei was already on file at the police station. Now all she needed to do was give her personal details, bank account number for the transfer, and wait for further information. As for the final outcome, that would depend on whether the mastermind was caught.
“Oh well… Live and learn. I can’t be this impulsive anymore,” Zhou Xueyin muttered to herself after hanging up the phone.
“Actually, when it comes to entrepreneurship, we really need that kind of impulse to just go for it like you do. Otherwise, people like me, KK, and Shanbao, who have a tendency to procrastinate, could never have started a small company right after graduating,” Li Jixiang admired Zhou Xueyin.
Her admiration was sincere; she had missed out on a lot because of her own procrastination and still hadn’t changed her ways or rather, found it impossible to change.
Unless things were at a critical point, she was generally not in a hurry.
But Zhou Xueyin wasn’t like that. Once she set out to do something, she would meticulously plan her time and organize all her work properly, leaving a margin for error. sea??h thё N?velFire(.)net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.
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“Right, right, Yinyin is all about action, saying she’s going to go street shooting and actually hitting the streets the very next day. Unlike me, I wait until the last minute to start designing clothes and practice dancing…” Yao Shanshan remembered her own chaos when she cosplayed as Yuna.
“I won’t flatter you anymore — would hate for you to get too cocky… Just make sure you think twice the next time you make any money-related decisions, and you can avoid this kind of incident,” Kang Siyin pushed her glasses up.
“Okay, okay, I got it. But with Ying Haiwei, I did compare different options and asked a lot of people… and you all saw what happened. We all fell into the trap together…” Zhou Xueyin defended herself, “Of course, I know I was looking for a bargain. Who knew that with virtual hosting cheap is not always good… Next time, I’ll definitely be more careful!”
Although Zhou Xueyin still harbored doubts about whether she was really cut out for entrepreneurship, now that she had embarked on this path and brought her three dormmates along, she resolved to stay the course!
Besides, she had already made a “boastful claim” to make those who looked down on female entrepreneurs drop their jaws in shock — she couldn’t let the bumps in the entrepreneurial road intimidate her.
This time at worst, she was just paying for a lesson. It was better that it happened in the early stages of her business than later on, when the company was more established and a mistake would be more costly.
“Phew…” Zhou Xueyin took a deep breath, “Today’s the first day of August; let’s just call it the website’s establishment day, the day of rebirth!”
After speaking with such poise, Zhou Xueyin deflatedly asked Kang Siyin, “So, have we already transferred our forum data and domain name out?”
“The good news I hadn’t shared with you yet is… actually, while you were out street sweeping, Jixiang, Shanshan, and I pitched in our pocket money and rented a Wanwang virtual host for one month, giving us 200MB of space,” Kang Siyin paused, “Then, I’ve already moved all the data and the domain name over to the new space, so you can rest easy!”
“Really? Why didn’t you tell me sooner?” Zhou Xueyin’s eyes welled up with tears as she heard Kang Siyin’s words.
“I was really just thinking of it as a backup, but who knew it would actually come in handy…” Kang Siyin pushed her glasses up.
“You guys are too good to me…” Zhou Xueyin suddenly hugged all three of them tightly.
These three people were really the most important in her life, second only to her parents.
Zhou Xueyin firmly believed that with them three as her support, she would definitely carve out a space for women in this internet world dominated by men.
The next day, the four of them slept in until 11 am, something they hadn’t done in a long time.
The first thing Zhou Xueyin did after getting up was to turn on her computer to make sure the forum was still there.
Only after confirming the forum was still there did she relax.
All of yesterday’s events felt like a dream; thinking back, it all seemed so unreal.
“Hmm? Where did the forum go yesterday? I always check for new content every day, but I didn’t see it yesterday…” Zhou Xueyin unexpectedly found that a netizen had left a message on the forum.
“Ahh!! KK! Our forum has a living netizen!” Zhou Xueyin excitedly yelled.
“There have always been netizens…” Kang Siyin said nonchalantly, as she backed up the data every day and was well aware of how many new users registered, “It’s just that they never posted any content…”
“This one! This one’s alive! Their name is… Curly Cat! This must be the first netizen to leave a message on our forum, right?” Whenever someone she didn’t recognize posted on the forum, Zhou Xueyin felt that her efforts were not in vain.
She quickly pulled up a chair, sat down at the computer, and replied to Curly Cat: ‘It’s like this, our forum experienced some unexpected issues with the provider yesterday, plus we went to a comics convention and couldn’t spot this problem in time, causing you trouble, for which we’re truly sorry…’
“As compensation, we could make this Curly Cat a moderator,” Kang Siyin added.
“Moderator?” Zhou Xueyin sought confirmation from Kang Siyin.
“Yes, you don’t really think that, once the forum grows, it will still be just the four of us running it, do you? That’d be death by exhaustion,” Kang Siyin said with foresight.
“Hmm… that makes sense. However, we’ll manage the important sections ourselves. Maybe in the future, familiar netizens could be allowed to apply for moderator or deputy moderator positions on their own?” While saying this, Zhou Xueyin set Curly Cat as the moderator of the Water Cooler section.
“That works! Perfect, why don’t you write up a set of rules for moderator applications?” Kang Siyin tossed the writing task to Zhou Xueyin, then went to brush her teeth and wash her face.
“Stinky KK!” Zhou Xueyin stuck out her tongue at Kang Siyin.
Afterward, she drew from the application rules of other social forums and finished writing the rules for her own forum, then went to wash up as well.
“Which one of you can help turn on my phone…” Yao Shanshan held her phone as if it were a time bomb, looking helplessly at everyone brushing their teeth crowded in the bathroom.