The next six months were very dull, and Yahan never came to me again. After I was forced to resign in July, I started to prepare for the war abroad and borrow money from everywhere.

Half a year later, in October, Yahan asked me to help with some personal matters, and after successfully completing the task, Yahan invited me to dinner, which was the evening of October 9, 2001, and the lights were on. There was almost no talk of Milu during the dinner, and I think she must have been completely desperate for me at that time, but she just wished me all the best and a bright future. She talked about the feelings of Meilu in the past two years (entering the palace on the second day in September 1999), and inadvertently mentioned a sentence in her lyrical exclamation: Do what you should do before you succeed, and do what you like to do after success! After hearing this, I was silent for five minutes, and I remembered a lot, thinking of the struggle that I had been fighting in poverty since the third grade of elementary school, thinking of years of unstable wandering, thinking of my mother in poverty, thinking of the university that made me suffer endlessly, and also remembering the ups and downs of the workplace for four years...... Perhaps, from the moment my heartstrings were plucked, I was destined to join this "magical" career!

Five minutes of silence ended, and I only said one word to Yahan: "Tell me about OPP!" ”

After dinner, I came to the center of Yahan, which was an old-fashioned residential building in Rongqian Xili behind the center, and I listened carefully and calmly to Lin Chao (my best friend in my later American career, the only descendant of Wu Zi, and later an elephant leg DD, also a American refugee, now immigrating to Canada) finished speaking OPP, 4% hereditary bonus (that is, leadership bonus) basically did not understand, but this is no longer important, because in my heart I have silently calculated an account for myself:

Study

- Time cost: 3 years.

Capital cost: 490,000 yuan (including 140,000 yuan in advance in China and money earned from future jobs abroad).

Psychological cost: endure the hardships of the bitterness!

Investment income: After three years, the annual salary is 100,000 yuan (calculated based on the domestic benchmark income of EMBA), and I will continue to work as a wage earner!

Ending: Continuing to wander around the world (Switzerland is a non-immigrant country, France is also difficult)

Meilu

- Time cost: 2 years.

Cost of capital: 12,000 yuan (calculated based on a net amount of 9,600 yuan).

Psychological cost: endure the hardships of the bitterness!

Investment income: After two years, the annual salary is 100,000 yuan (calculated based on the DD benchmark income), and you will change your career to become the boss!

The end of life: rich, idle and successful!

Then Yahan appeared on the stage, holding a kit of information (i.e., the sales representative application form) in his hand, and solemnly handed the pen to me (this is a very important detail in the facilitation process). At that time, it cost 101 yuan to join Meilu, and I resolutely refused to sign it.

Actually, as early as dinner, I had secretly made up my mind to join Meilu, and I listened to the OPP just for the sake of prudence, and the reason why I refused to sign it was because I was too shy in my pocket. I haven't been working for a few months, and the savings from the previous years were used to buy a second-hand house, and all the funds in the later period were spent on studying abroad, with only 200 yuan in my trouser pocket and only one dollar left in my bank passbook.

So, Yahan and Lin Chao's two-hour follow-up began, moving with emotion and reason, and my face is thin-skinned, how can I show my cowardice in front of strangers. Eventually, Yahan pulled me to another room and started the stove, and I finally told her about my worries. Yahan solemnly told me that she could borrow no living expenses, but the money to join had to be paid by herself, because it meant that I had really made up my mind in this business!

I finally signed my name on the sales representative application that night, when I was 27 years old, and I began a seven-year gamble on my life. I even set a goal for my future life: to go up in five years, then retire, travel to speak, write a book, open a café called "Geometry of Life", and travel all over the world......

Hand in hand with the world, smiling proudly! It was the highest level of my life at that time.

Sensual and rational thinking, passionate but not fanatical, excited but not impulsive, rich experience has created my style of acting without surprise. Unlike the vast majority of American passers, I have never really entered the "mad dog period", and I am always asking myself why, which may be the fundamental reason why I was able to finally get out of the American road and the loss of my personal department is not large.

However, seven years are gone, and the seven years of life that are the most idealistic, the most passionate, the most talented, and the most able to work are gone! All that is left is exhaustion and scars, which is the so-called "Meru syndrome". How many such seven years are there in life?