short series

Rise of the Hometown Returnee

share time: 2026-03-02 00:35:34

Lin Xiaoman, a white-collar worker at a top city firm, is wrongfully fired for rejecting workplace harassment. Heartbroken, she returns to her village to heal, only to find local organic strawberries rotting in fields due to poor transportation. Using her e-commerce skills, she starts live-streaming to sell the strawberries—from being called a "failed city loser" by villagers to boosting sales tenfold in three months, she becomes the village's revered "wealth mentor." To her surprise, Gu Ye, the "wild boy" who once protected her from dogs as a kid, has long been a rural agricultural technician here. He secretly secures cold-chain logistics for her and brings warm ginger tea during her late-night work sessions. Just when Lin thinks this is "random luck," she discovers Gu Ye gave up an overseas investment bank offer to wait for her for ten years—his "rural entrepreneurship dream" started the day she said, "I want to sell our village's strawberries to Beijing" in primary school…

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