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Chapter 4【Our Past】

At night, Xia Yin had a dream, and it seemed that he had returned to nine years ago, when he just traveled here.

That was 1999.

One sunny afternoon, Xia Yin came to this world when he opened his eyes. That year, he was nine years old.

It's just that he was groggy that day, and he didn't wake up much until late at night. The 13-year-old Xia Yi rushed into his room, and took him to the square of the small town regardless of his discomfort.

There were too many people, and they didn't know which corner they came from. Everyone's face was filled with joy.

Then Xia Yin saw his parents in this life, Xia Sheng and Ruoxin Ryan, and they were extremely pleasantly surprised when they saw Xia Yin.

"Little guy, are you feeling better?"

Before Xia Yin could reply, he was lifted up by his father, and everyone shouted loudly as the fireworks show crackled and exploded in the sky.

"Happy Millennium!"

"Wow, the new century has arrived!"

At that moment, Xia Yin understood the timeline.

At the same time, at that moment, the voice of the system sounded in his mind.

Since then, Xia Yin has lived a good life, loved by his parents and protected by his elder brother, because of the system Xia Yin has become more and more intelligent and capable. This is a happy and happy family.

It's just that this good day was too short. In just a few months, their parents' company went bankrupt due to the collapse of NASDAQ, and their life began to become sad.

But this is just the beginning. In 01, an accident completely broke the only balance of this family. Xia Yin's parents died in a car accident, and he and his brother became orphans in an instant.

The blows came one after another, because the mortgage payment was cut off, the house was about to be taken away by the bank, and he and his brother were about to live on the streets. Fortunately, his parents left a little inheritance.

The 11-year-old Xia Yin was quite calm at the time. Before the welfare agency came, he asked his brother to quickly deal with his parents' inheritance, exchanged it all for cash, and hid it.

Immediately afterwards, Xia Yin was taken away by the welfare agency, and Xia Yi was left to fend for herself because of her age.

Xia Yi suffered a lot outside, and Xia Yin had a hard time in the orphanage, but luckily he met Lisha here.

I still remember the afternoon when he first arrived at the local welfare agency, Lisa with disheveled hair came up to him and asked him, "Do you want candy?"

The sun shines on her face, emitting a holy light.

Xia Yin's flustered heart immediately calmed down, he took the candy with a smile, "After eating your candy, you will be mine, and I will protect you."

Little Lisa smiled, but said no more.

It was only later that Xia Yin found out that in order to protect herself, Lisa deliberately made herself sloppy to cover up her proud appearance, and at the same time pretended to be dumb to reduce the chance of being adopted.

Time came to 02, and Xia Yin had been living in the orphanage for half a year. Xia Yin changed his previous practice of increasing his mental strength and intelligence. He began to increase his physical strength, which allowed him to dominate the fights in the orphanage.

Xia Yin and Lisa have become the overlords of the orphanage.

During this period, Lisa taught Xia Yin to speak Russian, and Xia Yin taught Lisa to speak simple Chinese.

Both of them are very smart and have a tacit understanding, and their language advantage makes them feel like ducks in water.

The key is that they are very smart and have never been caught. Even if they are the one who beats someone, they will become victims in the eyes of the staff.

On Xia Yi's side, besides going to school and working part-time every day, life is very busy and exhausting.

But he will go to college next year, and it is certain that he will get a scholarship based on his grades, but this means that he will have to leave Los Angeles, which is unacceptable to him.

But it’s not all bad news, there is good news too.

After the bank took away the parents' house, it put it on the rental market again. A girl named Kat Dailins lived in that house.

Xia Yi often wanders there, he misses everything here very much, after selling many parents' bequests, this house has become the only thing left.

Fortunately, Xia Yi was handsome enough, and Kate was also rebellious at this time, and the two saw each other for some reason.

The house was also rented to her by her parents because she just got her driver's license and wanted to live independently.

Until the time came to the second half of 02, Xia Yin found a way to make a fortune quickly by learning computers by himself. The key is that it can be controlled by computers and phones, which is very safe.

Because of this, Xia Yin made a big plan, which he told his brother.

Xia Yi smiled gratifiedly after listening, "Do you still remember the story about flowers that my mother told me before?"

"A withered flower will no longer take root and sprout again."

"But the flowers left behind can bloom in various ways"

"Just go ahead and do it, I will bear all the consequences."

Xia Yin also started the show operation.

Now it is 02, Amazon and eBay are relatively mature, and what Shane wants to do is related to this.

In their small town, there is a women's prison. It just so happens that there are many changes on the Internet who like women's underwear, and the cost of buying from the prison is very low.

Through online transactions, a pair of underwear is priced as high as $88, but demand exceeds supply.

In just half a year, Xia Yin earned more than US$2 from this. Although money is very important, it is not the most important thing.

The most important thing is to establish a fictitious identity, and then hire people to adopt Xia Yin and Lisa.

At the beginning of 03, it seemed that all the gloom had passed.

Xia Yin and Lisa successfully left the orphanage, and Xia Yi was admitted to UCLA. The three of them all lived in the house rented by Kate, which was also Xia Yin's former home.

Xia Yin also stopped the underwear business, and started to resell the business on the Internet, which can also maintain the family expenses. This kind of life lasted until 05.

One day, Xia Yin suddenly thought of a legend on the Internet in his past life, in which he exchanged a pin for a house.

He has been in the reselling business himself, and he easily changed from a car needle to a motorcycle after 3 months.

He recorded the whole incident on the Internet, which attracted many people to participate, and also attracted the participation of TV stations.

The deal became bigger and bigger, until the end of 05, Xia Yin finally got a house in exchange. He quickly reached an agreement with the bank, using that house plus a little subsidy in exchange for his parents' house.

Despite paying most of the deposit, they finally got their home, and it was worth it.

At the same time, a new neighbor moved next door in 04, Talia's family. Because they were similar in age, Talia and Lisa became good friends, and they also met Xia Yin.

In an accident, Thalia praised Xia Yin for his beautiful singing, and Xia Yin wanted to become a singer, and the system happened to help him achieve this.

After the house exchange at the end of 05, Xia Yin sang his thank you song through the news report this time, and he wrote a song specially for this event.

"Flashlight" is the excitement of owning this house, but also the gratitude to all the people who exchanged it.

And this song, coupled with the legend of Xia Yin's story of wanting to return to his parents' old house, immediately became popular.

Of course, it’s also important that the songs sound good.

Universal Music approached Xia Yin. In addition to studying, Xia Yin also started working hard for his first album.

In the summer of the same year, Xia Yi graduated from university. At the same time, Xia Yin graduated from high school, and he was also admitted to UCLA.

This time happened to be the time for the 06 World Cup. Xia Yin had also watched this World Cup and made a lot of money through various bets. They really didn't need money.

In October, Xia Yin's first album was released. Xia Yin became popular, his album also sold well, and he made a lot of money.

Xia Yin asked his brother to set up an X capital, and invested the money in his hand. With the opportunities provided by the system, their money in hand doubled very quickly.

It wasn't until the summer of 07 that Xia Yin asked his brother to start investing in subprime mortgages, and he gained a lot in early 08.

After successfully settling the profits, Xia Yin asked his brother to set up a fund "Since Fund" again, and spent 5900 million US dollars to buy 1300 million shares of Apple.

And spent $2200 million to buy a seaside ranch in Santa Barbara, which covers an area of ​​1750 hectares (4323 acres).

This ranch has a hill, a villa, and a private beach. It is also because of the financial crisis that we have the opportunity to buy it at a low price.

Xia Yi studied computer at UCLA, and he was very interested in games. It happened that Xia Yin saw the news about League of Legends, and spent 3000 million US dollars to acquire 70% of their shares.

At the same time, in April, another game company was established, named: [Bonfire Game], and now it is developing a pixel game called: "My World"!
In May, Xia Yin released his first Chinese album and made donations for the disaster in the Mainland. At the same time, the second English album is almost ready.

This is Xia Yin’s past 9 years!
(End of this chapter)