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As dawn spread across the winter city, its sleeping residents were quietly awakened.

With winter vacation and the weekend arriving together, commercial districts everywhere were bustling. After many years away, Master Xing had returned to the big screen as a director, bringing a new film, Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons, to the New Year season, and the hype had already begun.

Major shopping malls followed suit by launching all kinds of promotions and bundled marketing campaigns, continually adding fuel to the prosperity of the market.

Cui Yiting's nail salon in Kyoto also entered its peak season at this time. Customers came nonstop from morning until night.

She was the person who had severed ties with Internet commerce most thoroughly. Although working in the service industry now lacked the thrill of burning ten million at a time, she felt exceptionally grounded.

Every penny she earned belonged to her. That was far more comfortable than taking someone else's investment and recklessly burning it on an industry.

Though she had withdrawn from Internet commerce, Cui Yiting could still occasionally sense the smell of gunpowder from online commercial warfare.

Take the current market battle between Alipay and Cloud QuickPass, for example.

From summer through autumn, Cloud QuickPass had pushed its promotions with tremendous force. Combined with the joint efforts of commercial districts such as Xi Han He Qing and Wanzhong Mall, it had practically squeezed Alipay into a corner.

After winter arrived, however, and payment boxes became widespread in first-tier cities, Alipay once again suppressed Cloud QuickPass.

To ordinary people, six months might seem like a long time. But when it came to business, Cui Yiting could sum up her feelings in four words: things changed in an instant.

The people who came to their salon for manicures were mostly young women