essence of the Dunhuang dance resembles ancient murals, placing high demands on female dancers who must display continuous flowing movements, harmonious head and neck motions in line with mural poses,...Chapter 2: Founders

One day in the provincial capital city located downstream of the Xiangjiang River, in the Changli Basin, Xu Yi Yang accompanied a senior from school to pick up a computer at Guocun Computer City. Sitting on public transportation while rushing back home, he had two large cardboard boxes containing the monitor and main unit beside his feet. Along the way, that senior kept asking him about StarCraft, jokingly suggesting拜師（becoming an apprentice）him as his master. The level of e-sports in Changsha was relatively advanced domestically, largely due to this kind of atmosphere prevailing among universities since earlier times.

The bus traveled across a historical arch bridge lined with green willows, passing fruit vendors and pedestrians. Xu Yi Yang's blue-screen Nokia phone rang; after picking it up and taking a look, he said, "My childhood buddy is..." He picked up the call and chatted for a bit. After hanging up, Xu Yi Yang became quietly attentive.

After hanging up the phone, Xu Yi Yang suddenly turned to his senior and asked, “Do you know anything about it”

The senior thought for a moment and shook his head, "No idea, what is it"

Xu Yi Yang also shook his head but seemed to still be hearing the excited report from Liu Rui on the phone just now. He said, “It seems like a website that my brother set up; I'll check online later. It might just be a joke since April Fools' Day was last month... Beijing.

Wang Weiwei was hosting a cocktail party at a friend’s Mediterranean-style villa in the Fragrant Hills Park villa district, along with several friends from his social circle. In this era, there were four major planned layouts for villas in Beijing: "One Mountain," "Two Rivers," "Three Lines," and "Four Highways."

"One Mountain" referred to Xishan (Western Hills), generally including Mentougou, the Eight Great Sites Park area, and villa zones around Fragrant Hills and Hot Springs Yongfeng. "Two Rivers" were the Wenju River and Chao Bai River areas. The "Three Lines" included Litu-Tanggu Line, Jingshun Line, and Jingtong Line. As for the "Four Highways," they comprised traditional villa areas along Jingcang Expressway, Jing-Shenyang Expressway, Jing-Kaifeng Expressway, and Jingmi Expressway.

Located in the Fragrant Hills area ("One Mountain"), this Mediterranean-style villa hosted a cocktail party organized by a girl nicknamed "Lotus Seed," whose family had complex connections and was quite influential. The titles held by the members of her clan were like branches on a large mulberry tree, quite impressive indeed. However, there weren’t many in clean government roles; nonetheless, the familial network, wealth, and resources enabled her to become part of Wang Weiwei’s circle.

This girl was also considered from a prestigious background, with impeccable manners, and had some acquaintance with Wang Weiwei. Therefore, Wang Weiwei took advantage of this rare free time to take leave from school and came here with his friends.

Though called a cocktail party, it was basically just a group of people chatting and blowing off steam at the girl’s place. Wang Weiwei did not have an especially close relationship with her; in contrast, Lin Luoran had more familiarity. Moreover, Lotus Seed got along well with Ye Huishang, who sometimes joked about him to Wang Weiwei, leaving him somewhat embarrassed.

"Rumors say that Ming Ji will be graduating soon and might return to the country for development. Weiwei, I’m not saying this to you out of malice. If there are any lingering feelings in your heart, now is the time. There are quite a few young masters here in Beijing who have set their sights on our sister Ye Huishang. If you decide to make a move, I promise to be your ally," said the girl called "Lotus Seed" at the backyard of the villa.

"Let’s take things as they come. Most of my energy now is focused on my studies." He picked up a glass of Jack Daniel's and smiled at his friends in the living room who were boasting and chatting idly.

"Yay, you’re quite progressive! That works well with Ye Huishang’s tastes; she likes men like that. There are plenty of idle suitors who chase after her every day, but not one of them is to her liking. You know what After finishing university, if you plan on taking the postgraduate entrance exam and then entering government service through special talent programs, by the time you’re out, you’ll at least be a department-level official. If you can hold out until your late thirties, hah, I reckon that by then you’d already be a bureau chief or even higher. Impressive."

"You won’t be inferior to Uncle Wang in the future,"

“I haven't thought so far ahead; doing well in the present is enough,” he replied.

The girl squinted her eyes, "Weiwei, you’re becoming more and more intriguing. Even I can’t help but feel a bit attracted to you. Truly, it’s the serious men who are most alluring."

Wang Weiwei scoffed, “Save your breath. Everyone knows that quite a few people pursue Miss Lotus Seed. I won't involve myself in this. However, let me remind you that when two people are together, there's no need for so much weighing and measuring."

Lotus Seed sighed lightly, "You don’t understand our family’s situation. To us, worrying about mismatched social status is pointless, but others might view it differently. That’s why Zhang Fei seemed like a good match, yet I still ended things with him. Regardless of his occupation, he failed the political review in my father's eyes."

As they were talking, several men and women from the villa walked out together, approaching Wang Weiwei with secretive expressions that hinted at many questions. "Right, Wang Weiwei, you’ve introduced us to someone a few times now—Su Can, is it"

Wang Weiwei rolled his eyes and said, “Why all of a sudden are you interested in him” These people were on the fringes of his circle; they weren’t close friends like Zhang Xian or Zhuo Zhiyu from Chengdu. Occasionally mentioning Su Can, he found that these folks barely remembered his name.

One person dramatically covered their forehead with a hand in disbelief. "Oh my God! So he’s the founder of Facebook!"

"What" Wang Weiwei frowned.

The lotus seed next to him was also clearly taken aback, "How is this possible" They were not unfamiliar with Facebook. After all, they often accessed it domestically as well.

"It's absolutely true; didn't you throw the latest weekly magazine in the living room It mentioned one of the Chinese founders who is currently studying at Nan Da University in Shanghai. Oh, I remember Lin Ge Ran also mentioned him before, isn't he from Shanghai" One of them said seriously, a spark of excitement in their eyes.

Wang Weiwei led the group, with others following closely behind. They marched into the living room and pointed at current events while sitting on the sofa in the lounge area. A few people there were slightly older than them, firmly established within state-owned enterprises or government agencies, looked at their bold arrival with a slight sense of surprise.

Wang Weiwei picked up the magazine from the table; it was full of revelations, even disclosing that Su Cen studied at Nan Da University. This showed how powerful and reliable the magazine's sources were.

Su Cen is one of Facebook's founders. Under the winter investment by The Washington Post Group, the website's market valuation had reached billions of dollars. This move indicated that although Su Cen and Mark Zuckerberg didn't have much liquid money in hand, they had indeed become billionaires.

Wang Weiwei suddenly fell silent; this man was originally his goal to surpass. He thought he could work hard for five or ten years and reach the same level as him. But now it seemed that with a few steps taken by the other man, he had already fallen far behind.

In Zhejiang China Academy of Fine Arts, there is a teaching building with a modern avant-garde style. In fact, this picturesque school often features such imaginative architectural structures.

The central dome of the teaching building was made entirely of glass. Surrounding classrooms encircled it, slanted beams of light piercing through and illuminating golden particles in the air.

Zhang Feifei, carrying a painting board, came out from an oil painting classroom holding a magazine and making a phone call. She finally screamed with frustration, "How can he become famous before me! What kind of world is this!"

Her voice echoed in the central dome teaching building, causing ripples in the air. Those around her stared at this seemingly beautiful girl who suddenly lost it and secretly thought to themselves that everyone in this school wanted fame, but this girl seemed intent on becoming mad.

No one knew that in a small cross-bridge rice noodles shop near Chengdu No.27 High School in 2001, the girl had proudly told her crowded high-school friends and classmates that she was going to fly to Hangzhou to study under a famous professor in China, declaring confidently that she would become a million-dollar female painter known across China. She boasted to them that at that time they wouldn't be able to beg for support one by one without backbone.

But the truth is, even if Wang Weiwei and others would cry and plead with her to take a look at them, it's highly unlikely that the boy would beg her to support him financially.

She once asked the boy condescendingly, "Do you have ten million yuan"

Does he have ten million

No, he has a billion dollars.

He owns Facebook and has over a hundred million users worldwide.

In reality, apart from those who saw it in magazines or heard about it through word-of-mouth from people within Su Cen's circle, many others were still unaware of the fact that Su Cen was one of the founders of Facebook.

It must be admitted that the reach and influence of media journals are not as extensive as television. Moreover, their coverage is quite limited.

Af ter all, only a few people like Jack Ma and Robin Li can appear on CCTV's entrepreneurial programs and become economic figures of the year. It was also due to its fashionable nature that Facebook caught some fashion magazines' and lifestyle weeklies' attention, in addition to computer journals and industry journals.

Such reports were not extensive but brief introductions, so many people did not see Su Cen mentioned as a founder in these articles.

For instance, Wu Shiyin, an attendant of the Chuan Nan Airlines Group undergoing restructuring, was sitting in the cockpit after finishing her service on a flight to Shandong and looking out at the cloud sea through the window.

Another example is Lin Zouwu; no one called him to tell him about this. He was still attending school as usual, occasionally going out with his buddies when they had a day off from classes to eat street food, drink beer, and play drinking games. The steam rising from the cooked food on the roadside stalls made him feel that college life was worthwhile despite there being no girls around—just having friends and beer was enough for him. He never imagined that thousands of miles away, people were discussing these topics fervently.over such talents and combine their strengths, our provincial architecture has a significant advantage!"Seeing his father speak so unrestrainedly made Sū Càn feel down.Lǐ Yúhé smiled in an extremely s...