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Fired at Year-End: I Achieved Financial Freedom Through My Severance Pay

share time: 2026-02-27 00:34:58

Lin Shen, a five-year copywriter at a shady ad agency, was fired at year-end under the guise of 'team optimization,' receiving only 3,000 yuan in severance. As he walked home in the snow with a box of his belongings, he got a bank alert—30 million yuan had been transferred to his account! It turned out the boss’s secretary had mistakenly sent the 30 million yuan intended for a partner’s termination fee to him instead of the 3,000 yuan severance. Just as he panicked about returning the money, he learned the boss was under investigation for embezzlement, and the company account was frozen—making the money unclaimable. To his surprise, the boss’s daughter, his college crush, showed up and confessed she’d arranged the mistake; she’d long hated her father’s greed and wanted to help Lin Shen escape his plight. Now Lin Shen faces a dilemma: keep the money to save his sick mother, or return it and risk losing everything. But is the daughter’s help genuine, or is there a hidden agenda?

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