Lying Flat, Starting with Fishing Back in the Village

The year he graduated, Jiang Ming chose not to take a 996 job at a major tech company. Instead, he returned to his rural hometown. Unexpectedly, right off the bat, he won first place in Lianxi Village's summer fishing contest. His cousin's video went viral, bringing in more followers and more sponsorship deals. Lianxi Village became famous. Even the beautiful village secretary in charge of poverty alleviation arrived. The village primary school was rebuilt, and a new volunteer teacher came to teach there. The village also got a clinic, complete with a resident doctor. Before he knew it, he was starting a business and revitalizing the countryside. A rural life imagined by an author trapped in the suburbs of a first-tier city.