On her 28th birthday, Lin Wei received a layoff notice and a breakup text on the same day. Her former boss said, “The marketing department needs younger blood.” Her ex-boyfriend said, “How can we get married if you don’t have a job?” When she went back to her hometown for the New Year, her relatives mocked her to her face: “What’s the point of a girl getting so much education? She’ll end up getting married anyway.” No one believed in her. But she refused to give up. She went straight to a rival company, landed her former employer’s biggest client, and fought her way to the top of the industry. When the people who had looked down on her one by one bowed their heads, she said only three things: “To myself. To every girl they never believed in. And to everyone who rose from the ruins and kept moving forward.” This is the story of a 28-year-old woman who was laid off and made it from nothing to the top of her industry in just two years.
