Lin Zhiyao was laid off.
Twenty-nine years old, a back-end programmer in a large factory. After working for seven years, he returned to zero.
She dragged her suitcase back to her grandmother's old house and found a series of numbers printed on the combination lock: 17.
She didn't recognize the code.
But she knew the person who opened the door - Jiang Yu, the top student in the school in high school and the top student in her neighbor's family.
He held a wrench in his hand and smelled of motor oil mixed with soap.
She thought he went to Qingbei, to Dachang, to what she thought was "success".
But he stayed in this county, guarding a small factory with 43 people and this old house that she thought had been abandoned.
——
Later, Lin Zhiyao found out:
The password 17 was the number that caused her to fall from 3rd to 17th and then climb back to 4th in her sophomore year of high school.
She thought the fall was a stain on her.
He didn't know her name, but he carved the number ten years into it.
——
"She thought she was a loser and returned to the starting point,
But she found that someone had guarded her starting point as her ending point——
And she didn't even know that her "failure" had saved someone. "
Purpose: We are taught that "leaving is success", but we forget that staying also requires courage. This is a story about "coming back" - the female protagonist went from being laid off as a programmer in a large factory to returning to a small town to get to know herself again; the male protagonist gave up his research and guarded the factory, remaining silent for ten years just waiting for someone to discover his password. The two people went from "proving value by leaving" to "allowing themselves to be seen", and finally understood that there is more than one coordinate system in life, and the way back can also be the way to be needed.
