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In the 1980s, Lu Yuan, a technical expert at the state-owned Hongguang Machinery Factory, was divorced by his wife Chen Xiufen for being “poor and obsessed with workshop innovations.” The day his divorce was approved, Lu’s half-year secret design for energy-saving machine tools unexpectedly won the factory’s contracting pilot. Once mocked as a “hopeless loser,” Lu led his team to adopt piece-rate pay and sell new products, becoming the factory’s reform star. When Chen, realizing his worth, tried to reconcile, Lu had already found a female technician who understood his blueprints and stayed up with him. The day he was abandoned turned out to be the start of his new life—breaking free from the old chains to build something real.
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