At the age of twenty-five, Zhang Lingwen landed in Melbourne alone with a full scholarship and 23 kilograms of luggage.
High school entrance examination, college entrance examination, postgraduate entrance examination, and thesis, transcripts brought her here from the small town. Her doctoral project is to let a machine identify where a building will be damaged from photos; in her life, she is used to getting every question right by herself.
Chen Jing, the Chinese founder of Linework, gave her access to 47,000 real architectural photos. The email only said:
Let me know what we got wrong.
Later, Zhang Lingwen turned the algorithm into a company and earned himself a little bit of money. Chen Jing finally understood that what this girl was reluctant to buy for a car worth sixty-eight Australian dollars had never been about technology.
It's herself.
Zhang Lingwen originally only wanted to finish her PhD, but later she and Chen Jing shared projects, a bed, and a company she built with her own hands.
What is really attractive is not how a rich man loves her, but how Ling Wen relies on his ability to reach the world where he is, and then still has the qualifications to choose him.
Purpose: Knowledge and labor can enable people to gain independence and the right to choose. No matter where you come from, you can move towards the larger world on your own ability; a good intimate relationship is not about saving or possessing, but about respecting each other's ambition, dignity and freedom.