From Assembly Line to Boardroom

In the midsummer of 1996, 18-year-old Lin Xiaoman said goodbye to the smoke of the mountain village in western Hunan, clutching a high school diploma and a train ticket to the south. In her luggage, in addition to a few old clothes, there was also a borrowed old version of the "Self-Study Textbook". Shenzhen, the "world's factory" built with scaffolding and dreams, welcomed her with its roaring assembly lines and cramped working buildings. During the day, she was a codename on the assembly line of the electronics factory; at night, she was a "silly girl" who studied hard under the streetlight on the rooftop. Youth is tempered in sweat, and dreams are climbed on the ladder of self-examination. From factory to foreign trade company, from warehouse keeper to business backbone, Xiaoman used her academic qualifications to knock on doors, and used sincerity and courage to weave her own network of contacts: a Hong Kong business owner with a discerning eye, a Chaoshan roommate who was daring and courageous, a competitor who was both an enemy and a friend, and a first love who was sadly lost at a fork in the road of fate... When the turn of the century rang, the Internet boom swept across. Lin Xiaoman keenly seized the opportunity and resolutely embarked on the road of entrepreneurship with the help of industry insights and connections accumulated over the years. From a counter in Huaqiangbei to a technology company with its own brand, she will lead a group of partners who are also unwilling to be ordinary and write their own business legend on the cusp of the times. This is not only the history of one person's struggle, but also the collective memory of a generation of young people - about survival and dignity, about knowledge and destiny, and about how to create their own future in a hot land.