Jianghe's Way Out

Fifty-three-year-old Chen Jianghe fell from being a boss with a net worth of tens of millions to the bottom. He clicked on ads with sore fingers on a broken sofa, earning 30 cents an hour. He sneaked into a secret world called "Sewer Gold Diggers", where laid-off top architects, programmers with training loans, and mothers who took care of their children to earn money for milk powder gathered, struggling to survive in the cracks of the Internet. Chen Jianghe's dormant business instinct was awakened. He teamed up with "outdated" architects and desperate young people, determined to "lay pipelines" for this darkness. There is no capital or team, only remaining skills and unquenchable ideas. They created "Glimmer" – a simple little program with only a 5% commission and full financial guarantee. It does not promise wealth, but only provides a fragile "reliability": so that publishers are not afraid of being cheated, and workers are not afraid of working in vain. The first income from the platform was 25 yuan, which was shabby but clean. This is not a counterattack myth. These are a few people who have hit rock bottom, using their dignity and remaining warmth to shine a small but conclusive light for each other and for countless strangers trudging in the darkness. It cannot illuminate the bumpy road ahead, but only wants to let night walkers see their feet clearly and know that they are traveling with them. The way out is in that crack that happens to be at hand when you hit rock bottom.