In a remote and barren mountain village, young Li Ming clenched the pen to rewrite his destiny with his calloused hands.
His parents died young and his grandmother was sick, so he managed to make ends meet by picking up scraps and digging wild vegetables. During the day, he was a "poor boy in patched clothes" in the eyes of his classmates; at night, he was a stubborn figure curled up under a kerosene lamp and chewing old textbooks. Fate has never been kind to him, but he firmly believes: "As long as you can still crawl forward, you will never admit defeat."
When an admission notice from a key high school hit him, the whole village sneered: "A sparrow in the ravine still wants to become a phoenix?"
But Li Ming walked into the city's steel forest carrying a moldy quilt and worn-out cloth shoes. Here, he encountered an even colder reality - the rejection of his classmates, the humiliation of working part-time, and even almost dropped out of school because he could not afford the tuition. But the twist of fate was hidden in an abandoned "Business Legend" in the library.
When everyone laughed at him for being "whimsical", he gritted his teeth and typed out his first entrepreneurial project with code; when his partners betrayed him and the capital chain broke, he set up a stall under the overpass to save up his last-ditch bet;
Until one day, the name that had been stepped into the mud became the most dazzling presence on the list of technology upstarts...
This is an ant's declaration of war against fate: from picking up garbage to sitting on a billionaire empire, from squatting in a leaky hut to standing on the Nasdaq bell ringing platform, he proved with blood and tears that poverty can crush the spine and temper the hardest bones.
