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Laid Off and Back Home to Retire, I Became the County's Most Wanted

share time: 2025-12-05 00:35:59

Lin Xiaoman, a 35-year-old operations expert at a Beijing internet company, was laid off at 3 AM right after finishing a project. Heartbroken, she returned to her small hometown in northern Jiangsu, planning to live off savings and “retire.” But when she helped her neighbor Aunt Wang’s struggling restaurant go viral on Douyin with a video about “hidden spicy stir-fried intestines,” she suddenly became the county’s most sought-after talent: clothing stores begged for live streaming help, tea factories asked for online promotion, even her mocking relatives came to curry favor. To her surprise, Chen Mo—her high school crush—was now a technician at the county science park. Together, they used internet thinking to transform local industries. Going from a “discarded Beijing drifter” to a “live signboard for county revitalization,” she realized: it wasn’t the world that abandoned her—it was that she hadn’t found her own “battlefield.”

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