With the main tasks settled, I relaxed.
Su Zelin opened QQ. It was a five-digit number, which would be incredibly valuable if sold later on.
Five-digit QQ numbers could only be registered in 1998. At that time, internet cafes in the country were still rare, and the high internet fees discouraged many curious people, so internet users were quite scarce.
However, Su Zelin was among the earliest internet users, someone who loved chasing new things, even at great cost. He came from a well-off family, with plenty of pocket money from his parents. Although he never experienced the 40 yuan per hour internet cafes, once the price dropped to 10 yuan per hour, he stepped into his first internet cafe and became a regular.
Back then, everything on the internet fascinated him. Not long after QQ was launched, he immediately registered to try it out.
If delayed by just one year to 1999, he would have only been able to register a six-digit QQ, and by 2000, a seven-digit number.
