Thirty-eight-year-old Lin Wanqing breathed her last on the hospital bed, her heart filled with regrets about the quarrels, cold wars and eventual alienation with her ex-husband Lu Mingyuan during their twenty-year marriage. When she opened her eyes again, she went back to the summer of 2000, when she was twenty-two years old and squeezed into the starting point of a ten-square-meter rental house with her boyfriend Lu Mingyuan. The air was filled with the hum of old-fashioned fans and the smoke of fireworks from street food stalls. Lu Mingyuan was leaning on an old desk, studying a software development manual under the light of a desk lamp, his brows furrowed but his eyes firm.
This time, Lin Wanqing decided not to make the same mistake again. She knew very well that Lu Mingyuan was down-to-earth and hard-working but didn't know how to adapt. In his previous life, he suffered a huge loss in the Internet bubble because of his insistence on technical ideals. He was also repeatedly ostracized in the workplace because of his poor handling of interpersonal relationships. After her rebirth, she holds the "golden finger of memory" for the next twenty years - she knows which companies will rise, which wasteland will become a CBD, and even remembers several key family crisis points. But she understands better that rough interference and advanced wealth may destroy Lu Mingyuan's self-esteem and the emotional foundation of the two of them through thick and thin.
Therefore, Lin Wanqing chose to become the staunchest supporter and wisest guide behind Lu Mingyuan. In the name of "intuition" or "accidental news", she cleverly reminded Lu Mingyuan to avoid career traps and encouraged him to stick to technical directions with potential. She used her meager salary and forward-looking vision to make very small-scale but precise investments (such as buying stamps destined for demolition, early subscription of potential internal company shares), silently accumulating start-up capital for the small family, and at the same time carefully managing the relationship between the two: learning to communicate, and resolving the problems caused by poverty.
