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In 1990, Lin Shen, a factory worker's son from Northeast China, just lost his "iron rice bowl" (stable job). His childhood sweetheart Su Xiaotang secretly sold her mother's gold ring to fund his street stall. Starting with foreign trade surplus goods at the night market, they faced local thugs demanding protection money, wholesalers hiking prices, and ridicule from former coworkers who called them "unserious". But Lin Shen seized the "market economy" opportunity—he used savings to rent an old warehouse for a clothing factory, recruiting laid-off brothers. When their first batch of "Hong Kong-style" jeans sold out in the wholesale market, he realized: the golden era isn't something you wait for—it's something you fight for, with sweat in your hands and your lover's hand in yours.
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