The Joys of Life

Zhang Jiayi, a talented young professional in culture and tourism!

With her own efforts, she brought a tourist attraction back to life!

A workaholic in the eyes of outsiders, but a needy little crybaby behind closed doors.

Abandoned by her mother at eight, she grew up dependent on her uncle's family. Trapped in the tangled emotional and family dynamics of her older cousin, younger cousin, uncle, and aunt, she swore she would one day break free.

After decades of hard study, she enjoyed astonishing luck in exams. She graduated and joined a culture and tourism group, rising through the ranks on merit within a few years to become a department manager in tourism planning.

Buy a house! Buy a car! Buy designer handbags! Eat well and look fabulous!

She had the enviable life everyone dreamed of: refined, comfortably middle-class, a city professional with an impressive career. Yet, hidden from others, her soul had a hole in it. She suffered from emptiness and an inability to love.

The culture and tourism group was making rural revitalization a priority, and villages across the country were competing to develop cultural tourism brands. Young Party members were given priority, and Zhang Jiayi was selected by senior leadership to take charge of a rural tourism project in a village. She was sent back to the nightmare of her childhood, her hometown: Lang Village!

After overcoming countless hardships with her indomitable spirit, and with help from family, friends, and villagers, she finally helped Lang Village, a centuries-old village, find new life through cultural tourism.

The village's marriage customs, passed down for millennia, were improved, preserved, and transformed. The Lingnan art of embroidery, and the distinctive gold couching embroidery of Guangdong, were also revived, bringing this thousand-year-old intangible cultural heritage to new heights.