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When Prices Collapse: My 3K Salary Home for New Year

share time: 2026-01-19 06:55:23

Lin Xiaoman, 28, works as an admin in Hangzhou earning 3,000 yuan a month, just scraping by. But when global prices suddenly plummet 100x, her salary instantly becomes a “300,000-yuan” fortune. Determined to make her parents proud, she spends half her salary on Moutai and gold bracelets for the New Year trip home. Yet as soon as she enters, her nosy aunt mocks her: “You’re worse off than Xiao Hui, the vocational school grad next door!” To make matters worse, she runs into her ex-boyfriend who once called her “poor and hopeless”—he’s there to celebrate too. But when she pulls out the gold necklace for her mom, the room falls silent: the girl once labeled “useless” is now an “invisible millionaire”? And to her surprise, Zhou Mingyu, her high school crush for years, quietly steps in to shield her from the relatives’ prying questions…

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