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After Being Laid Off, the System Helped Me Turn the Tide

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Yang Lijuan was the "scapegoat" of an advertising company—she took the blame for client revisions, covered for colleagues, and even topped the layoff list on her 30th birthday. Staring at her mother's chemotherapy bill and her bank account with only three digits left, she cried until she nearly fainted on a footbridge—when her phone suddenly popped up: "The Tide-Turning System activated. Complete tasks to earn cash, skills, or connections." Her first task: help an elderly grandma under the bridge sell hand-sewn insoles. Using her advertising instinct, she wrote a copy: "Grandma's insoles, sewn with 30 years of warmth," which went viral. She not only sold out all insoles but also unlocked the "emotional marketing" skill. Next, the system tasks got wilder: helping her former boss solve a school district housing dispute (landing a referral to a top 4A company), helping a delivery guy retrieve his stolen e-bike (unlocking a "resource integration" buff). Just as she got a 200,000-yuan-a-year offer, the system issued the ultimate task: "Find the mastermind behind your layoff." She then realized the layoff wasn't random—she was close to exposing the company's project kickbacks. And the system's creator? Her father who had been missing for eight years.

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