Lin Jun, 30 years old, worked diligently for seven years, saved 200,000 yuan, and got a layoff notice in return.
The company shortchanged him on severance, and he couldn't outlast them in arbitration, so he accepted it. He sold his little QQ car and spent 100,000 yuan on a secondhand B-class camper van. Then he ripped out the kitchen, built a huge bed, installed a fireplace, and set off west from the Pearl River.
He'd planned to visit western Sichuan, Tibet, Xinjiang, and Inner Mongolia to see what the “outside world” was like, and give himself a long vacation along the way. But as soon as he hit the road, a livestream System appeared in his mind, automatically editing and distributing his videos and paying him according to their view counts.
And so, a jobless loser's trip to clear his head turned into a mobile reality show watched by the entire internet.
The rain in Guizhou, the mountains of Sichuan, the clouds over Tibet, the snow in Xinjiang. Drunken stories at the Yi Torch Festival, butter tea offered by a Tibetan auntie, and a Kazakh herder's lamb offal soup during the winter slaughter... Lin Jun's wheels rolled for ten thousand kilometers, while his livestream audience grew from a handful of viewers to hundreds of thousands.
It's well-written; I love its soothing and healing rhythm.
The male lead can't even buy clothes by himself!
It's a very good article, and the author writes it very well.