Frogs in Warm Water

On August 1, 2026, Ouyang Yi, a 34-year-old product manager at a major Internet company, was laid off. When his mortgage payments were cut off and his wife left, he moved into a village in the city to run a takeout business. At the tea stall at the entrance of the alley, retired foreign trade cadre Wang Shimin did not talk sense, but only told stories. The old man has been doing business in the Middle East for twenty years and has experienced wars and sanctions firsthand. Those stories were like needles pricking into the warm water of "personal struggle" in Ouyang Yi's mind. By chance, he went to Dubai. At the intersection of desert and capital, he saw with his own eyes how the US dollar harvested the world, how the AI ​​wave was packaged into bubbles, and how Western education domesticated people into willing screws. Chen Du, a financial man who returned from Wall Street, taught him to read "The Language of Capital". After returning to China, he saw clearly a network - educational installation system, financial harvest, technological destruction, and the value makes people willing. When boiling a frog in warm water, it's not that the frog is stupid, but that the water is too slow. He didn't complain. In turn, he used the other party's language to find a flaw in the AI ​​bubble and stabbed it in the opposite direction. After making money, I did things I shouldn't have done. The lawyer's letter came, the car tires were punctured, and the rental house was turned over. At the last moment, a phone call came, with three sentences and no self-introduction. The next day, everything changed. He didn't go back to a big factory or go to an investment bank. He found the old folding table and set up a new tea stall in the old alley. One day, a man who had just been laid off came. He poured him a cup of tea: It's not that you're not good enough, there's something wrong with the water. Sit down and I'll tell you.