In the spring of 1980, 20-year-old Shen Qiutong was disengaged by her fiancé Zhou Jianguo in public, so she endured the humiliation and rode a broken car into the city to make a living. She set up a street stall selling dried sweet potatoes and met Gu Huaian, an orphan of educated youth who repaired cars. The two set up a stall together, starting from selling buttons, and their relationship gradually deepened. However, Zhou Jianguo led his people to seal down her stall on the grounds of "speculation", and Shen Qiutong was imprisoned. Fortunately, Gu Huaian ran to rescue her.
After the reform and opening up in 1984, Shen Qiutong opened a clothing store. The business prospered and he became a "household with ten thousand yuan". However, his partners ran away with the money and he was heavily in debt. Gu Huaian used his savings to pay off her debts, and the two reorganized their businesses and established a clothing brand.
After her speech during her southern tour in 1992, she moved the factory to the provincial capital and continued to expand its scale. Zhou Jianguo's state-owned factory was on the verge of bankruptcy, and his request for cooperation was rejected. In 2000, Shen Qiutong became the provincial outstanding entrepreneur. He sighed on the podium: "There is nothing you are not worthy of, except that you dare not fight." In the audience, Gu Huaian and his children burst into tears.
