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Dust Fails to Recognize the Pillar: The Misplaced Blind Date of a Returned Chip Engineer

share time: 2026-02-03 00:35:48

Lin Shen, a core chip R&D engineer who spent ten years in the US, secretly returns to China with his independently developed nanoscale chip code, planning to anonymously donate it to his alma mater's semiconductor laboratory. However, his grandfather tricks him into a blind date using the lie of "having a chronic bronchitis attack". The other party is Su Xiaotang, the granddaughter of his grandfather's lifelong friend — a civil affairs bureau marriage registrar who has "stability" engraved in her DNA. Seeing Lin Shen in a faded, pilled white T-shirt and saying "I'm working on an experiment recently", she rolls her eyes on the spot: "My mom said to find someone in the system. Someone like you... forget it." But she doesn't know that this "unemployed" man is the genius her grandfather called "someone who can make our country stop buying foreign chips". Lin Shen also didn't expect that this perfunctory blind date would turn into a "protracted war" — Su Xiaotang's mother stole his resume from his grandfather and chases after her daughter, shouting: "You're letting such a national-level talent slip away just to find a civil servant?" When the "invisible nuclear weapon in the chip industry" meets the "pragmatist in marriage", will this misplaced encounter be Lin Shen's inescapable "marriage pressure disaster" or Su Xiaotang's surprise of bumping into her "Mr. Right"?

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