A Male Matchmaker Born in the '90s

Ding Tao graduated with a degree from a top-tier 985 university. After the pandemic, he was suddenly laid off in his thirties, despite having started out as a software engineer. He sent out countless resumes, but heard nothing back. After five months of unemployment, he really couldn't hold on any longer. Car payments, mortgage payments, household expenses, and all the little worries of daily life were closing in on him until he could barely breathe. He resolutely decided to return to his rural hometown and start a new business. His wife, who worked in tourism, didn't understand and didn't want to give up life in the big city. After countless arguments, they finally sold the house and went their separate ways. They had two children: their elder daughter, who was in elementary school, went with his wife, while he took their just-turned-one-year-old son back to the countryside. He left most of their money with his wife and drove off in a car of his own.

After suffering the double blow of a broken marriage and a failed career, and seeing his nearly thirty-year-old younger brother struggle to find a wife while his younger sister, a teacher, had also become a leftover woman, he decided to start over. He would become a matchmaker, bringing together local single men and women past the usual age for marriage and helping them find happiness. That decision set him on the path to an extraordinary life.