Pengcheng, Longgang.
Lin Yizhou opened his eyes in his rented room and stared blankly at the ceiling for a moment before gradually coming to his senses.
He had stayed up late again the night before to catch Riding the Wind's quota reset. The first thing he did upon waking was check whether he had transmigrated.
Lin Yizhou sat up, gathered his wits, and checked the time. It was already past ten.
Right beside his bed was a desk covered with a monitor, a laptop, a mouse and keyboard, a half-finished bottle of water, and last night's leftover takeout.
To get Yuanxiao Mailbox launched and updated as quickly as possible, Lin Yizhou had stopped taking on new freelance jobs lately.
Freelance jobs were getting harder to land anyway, because everyone had started using Riding the Wind to do the work.
The email app had been live for a while, and Lin Yizhou had been actively updating it, responding immediately whenever users reported problems.
But there was one fatal problem-
There were too few users.
Glutinous Rice Ball Chat was growing more popular by the day, and using its Agent features to manage email seemed to be a common use case. Since Yuanxiao Mailbox integrated the Tangyuan Protocol, it natively supported calls from Glutinous Rice Ball Chat, delivering excellent accuracy and speed when handling email.
But the problem was that nobody knew. Many people simply gave Glutinous Rice Ball Chat a task and walked away, only coming back to check several minutes or even an hour later.
In that scenario, reducing email operations from several minutes to a few seconds barely mattered.
Lin Yizhou had practically given up.
Until one day, while scrolling through short videos, he came across an account called Xiao Fei Talks AI.
Normally, Lin Yizhou would swipe straight