Becoming a Billionaire From Awakening a System

The next day arrived.

Liu Bowen insisted that Hu Dawei not accompany him.

"You’re about to leave on a long trip, so you should spend more time at home with your parents. Besides, it’s not like I’ve never been to Cyan Mountain Town before. I’ll be fine exploring on my own."

Hearing this from Liu Bowen, Hu Dawei didn’t press the matter further.

It just so happened that Hu Zhanyong had been feeling unwell the past couple of days and wanted to go to the hospital.

"Alright, go have a look around then. Have fun!"

Hu Dawei stopped insisting.

Liu Bowen slung his camera over his shoulder and walked through the streets of Cyan Mountain Town...

The environment here was quiet and serene.

The local customs were simple and honest. And because most areas consisted of single-story houses, the residents living in the alleyways all had good relationships with one another.

When Liu Bowen got tired from walking, he could ask for a bowl of water at any doorstep and receive it.

This kind of atmosphere sparked Liu Bowen’s creative impulse.

In fact, Liu Bowen used to be a photography influencer who ran his own social media accounts.

However, he had a rather unpleasant falling out with his previous company.

On top of that, the company had saddled him with an overwhelming workload.

Every day, he agonized over the company’s so-called hard quotas and targets.

It had been a long time since Liu Bowen had produced any decent work.

And because he hadn’t uploaded any good work to his platforms, his fan engagement was also declining.

It was like a vicious cycle.

But amid the slow-paced life in Cyan Mountain Town, Liu Bowen gradually let go of the tension coiling inside him.

He shouldered his camera and quietly documented the silent tenderness of the small town.

A small river ran through the center of Cyan Mountain Town.

On both sides of the river were residents who had built their homes along the water.

On a whim, Liu Bowen rented a small, black-canopied boat.

He sat in the boat, recording the scenery on both banks with his camera.

The blue sky, the white clouds, the babbling stream, and the antique charm of the buildings along the banks—all of it was captured in Liu Bowen’s camera.

After he disembarked from the black-canopied boat,

Liu Bowen took a deep breath of fresh air and felt his mind grow clearer.

He switched to photo mode, capturing the blue sky, white clouds, and the river below in his lens.

There was no need for deliberate composition.

Any casually taken shot was splendid and colorful.

Because Liu Bowen had signed the contract with his personal media accounts, he still owned his social media accounts even after terminating his contract with the company.

He uploaded the photos he had casually taken of the town’s peaceful life to his social media account.

Then, Liu Bowen went offline.

He didn’t bother checking what was happening on his account.

This time, Liu Bowen had truly uploaded the photos just to share his current mood.

He wanted to share the beautiful scenery he had seen, so that the fans who still followed him could enjoy it too.

That was all.

As an influencer with a good aesthetic sense, at the peak of his career, Liu Bowen once gained over a hundred thousand followers in a single day.

It was because of a series of photos he took of the beautiful scenery on a high plateau.

His professional skill was high, and the place Liu Bowen had visited was indeed remote and rarely frequented.

An undeveloped, pristine landscape was all the more captivating to people.

It was precisely because of the immense traffic he generated at the time that Liu Bowen signed with his former company and became a professional photography influencer.

Even though Liu Bowen had now announced his departure from the company, some of his longtime fans had not unfollowed him.

Due to a lack of inspiration, Liu Bowen hadn’t uploaded any new work for a long time.

But this time, he uploaded over a dozen photos as soon as he came online.

This attracted the attention of some of his followers.

Because for a period of time, Liu Bowen’s photography techniques had been highly controversial, he had many fans who followed him.

But he also had many haters.

When he made this post, it wasn’t just his fans who took notice.

Some of the haters who specifically targeted Liu Bowen also flocked over.

They came specifically to see if there were any flaws they could criticize in the photos Liu Bowen had posted this time.

Sometimes, a photography influencer like Liu Bowen could even sustain a few haters.

After all, Liu Bowen himself had a certain amount of online traffic and influence.

When they clicked on the new photos Liu Bowen had posted, both his genuine fans and his haters were, for the first time, speechless.

The photos depicted a small town.

The tranquility of life in the small town seemed to radiate from the images.

This serenity instantly washed away the clamor of the big city.

In the photos, the quaint and antique buildings exuded a charm completely different from modern steel and concrete.

Blue skies and white clouds were a rare sight in today’s cities.

And yet, all this scenery was presented in the photos.

The haters who had been saying that Liu Bowen had lost his touch and hit a creative wall suddenly discovered something.

This time, Liu Bowen’s work lacked its previous artificiality.

It felt more like something real.

It was a genuine reflection of every scene in this small town.

For a while, all of Liu Bowen’s works were deliberately framed from a professional angle.

The compositions all felt forced.

This time, the photos Liu Bowen uploaded were full of casualness.

It was as if an ordinary person had stumbled upon a beautiful place and simply snapped a few pictures.

But it was precisely this authenticity that attracted people living in big cities.

"Where is this little town in the photos?"

"Begging for the town’s address, I want to go travel there!"

"The place he chose this time is so peaceful! It’s been a long time since I’ve seen somewhere with such a magical vibe!"

"I can’t believe that right after Bowen left his company, he turned around and found such a perfect place!"

"Camping here for the address. What town is it?"

"Judging from the photos, it doesn’t look like a town in the north... Where on earth is this place?"

Many people spontaneously flocked to the comments section of Liu Bowen’s post.

Perhaps it was because Cyan Mountain Town was simply too obscure.

It didn’t even have a place among the successfully developed ancient tourist towns.

However, the harder it was to find, the more it piqued everyone’s interest.

Suddenly, the search volume for "nameless little town" skyrocketed.

In an instant, those three words shot to the top of the trending topics.

When ordinary browsers clicked on this trending topic, the first post they saw was Liu Bowen’s, and they saw the scenery in the photos from his post.

Many people who didn’t know who Liu Bowen was started following the influencer.

And when they opened the comments, they discovered that nobody seemed to know where this town was.

More and more people’s attention was drawn in.

While Liu Bowen was enjoying the quiet time in the small town, he was completely unaware that the internet was in an uproar over finding it.

Without any backing from investors or corporations, Liu Bowen’s post shot straight to the number one trending spot.

Many people were captivated by the scenery in the photos, and the fact that they didn’t know where this beautiful place was left them feeling frantic.

The leader of Cyan Mountain Town had just finished a meeting about tourism.

Suddenly, he received a phone call from his son.

"Dad, the town’s gone viral! Your reaction time is too slow! The entire internet is looking for Cyan Mountain Town right now!"

Hearing the frantic tone of his son’s voice on the phone, the leader of Cyan Mountain Town, Zheng Yan, was completely baffled.

He felt his son was speaking nonsense, without any logic at all.

’What does he mean, my reaction time is too slow?’

"What are you talking about? Explain it to me in detail."

Zheng Yan spoke with his son as he walked toward his office.

Zheng Yan’s son, Zheng Xiaolong, anxiously explained to his father about the "nameless little town" on the trending topics list.

Zheng Xiaolong was an avid internet user who loved to follow online drama.

When he casually clicked on the trending topic, he never expected the familiar scenery to be Cyan Mountain Town.

Because of his father’s work, although Zheng Xiaolong attended school elsewhere, he had visited Cyan Mountain Town a few times to have fun.

So, after carefully examining the dozen or so photos, Zheng Xiaolong recognized the place. It was definitely where his father worked.

"Right now, everyone online is extremely curious about this set of photos, and about the location pictured in them."

"Dad, this is your chance!"

Previously, when Zheng Yan was planning to pursue economic development through tourism, he had discussed it a little with his son.

Therefore, Zheng Xiaolong knew very well that his father was currently working on some tourism-related plans.

He understood perfectly that "nameless little town" trending was, in effect, bringing the first wave of traffic to the town.

After ending the call with his son, Zheng Yan didn’t say another word and immediately opened a search app on his phone.

Sure enough, he saw that the hottest search term at the moment was "nameless little town."

He clicked on it and saw a set of photos posted by an influencer named Liu Bowen.

This set of photos had captured all the antique charm of Cyan Mountain Town.

Although there was no deliberate composition, the scenery of Cyan Mountain Town under the high-definition lens was still breathtakingly beautiful.

Zheng Yan had always been aware that Cyan Mountain Town was a beautiful place.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t have chosen to pursue tourism in the first place.

It was just that Cyan Mountain Town’s economy didn’t allow for a massive, blanket promotional and marketing campaign on the internet.

It wasn’t that Zheng Yan hadn’t hired professional photographers to shoot Cyan Mountain Town’s scenery before.

But none of them had made much of a splash.

At most, it just resulted in a few more photos appearing when people searched for Cyan Mountain Town online.

He never expected that while his intentional efforts had failed to bloom, this unintentional act would flourish so magnificently.

Now, to everyone’s surprise, Cyan Mountain Town had gone viral.

To be precise, the photos of Cyan Mountain Town’s scenery had gone viral.

The entire internet was now searching for the location of this nameless little town.

The comments section under Liu Bowen’s post was already filled with numerous guesses.

Zheng Yan realized that time was of the essence.

He had to ride this wave of popularity and make a name for Cyan Mountain Town.