short series

My Days in Dongguan

share time: 2025-11-06 00:30:15

Lin Xiaoman, a fresh graduate screenwriter, arrives in Dongguan with 3,000 yuan and a script. On her first day, she’s scammed out of her rent by a shady agent and ends up eating instant noodles in an alley—until Granny, the soy milk seller, hands her a hot bun: her son was once a drifter here too. What’s more, Chen Mo, the cold-faced supervisor at her interview, is the “masked guy” who helped her chase a thief the night before. The workplace PUA, the leaky rental room on cold nights, and the breakdowns from rewriting scripts until midnight are all slowly warmed by Granny’s hot soy milk and the throat lozenges Chen Mo quietly leaves on her desk. When Lin’s script finally gets approved, she realizes: her days in Dongguan are never about “overcoming hurdles”—it’s the city that, in its most down-to-earth way, has turned “strangers’ kindness” into the warmest script of her life.

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