1. First Time Eating KFC

Today, while playing with my baby, I ordered two portions of KFC’s New Orleans Wings. Watching my child eat happily, I reflected on my journey.

Before graduating from university, I had only eaten KFC once. It was during high school when my cousin married a woman from the county town. Her family worked in real estate, placing them at a different social level than my cousin, but she treated us to a meal. My brother ordered a family bucket—it felt like a celebration for us. Although he and that cousin-in-law later separated, I still feel grateful to her today. She introduced me to KFC and revealed that such delicious food existed in the world.

My younger brother was also present; he even commented that it didn’t taste good. My brother responded, "You should have said so earlier—we’re still hungry." In the 2010s, KFC was a rare luxury in our area. Back then, my brother and his wife were deeply in love, and she showed great care for me and my brother, considering we came from the countryside.

When I attended university, I still couldn’t afford KFC, but there was a cheaper alternative called Wallace. Once, at my ex-boyfriend’s place, I ordered 50 RMB worth of Wallace food. He remarked, "You really know how to spend money—just don’t let my dad see this." At that time, 50 RMB was a significant amount for us. We secretly ate those Wallace burgers in the room. They were delicious, and every burp filled my heart with joy. However, this incident highlighted that my ex and I weren’t meant to be. He viewed 50 RMB as a fortune not to be wasted on such food, while my taste buds knew exactly what kind of life I desired.

Eating KFC Again

Later, when I started working at a clothing store, the store manager was from Anhui province. They loved noodles, but I found noodles unsatisfying and often unpleasant, sometimes even disgusting. Once, I ate shredded pork with pickled vegetables noodles and discovered a fly in the vegetables. When I complained to the plump auntie, she dismissed it, saying flies contain protein. Unhappy, I still paid. 😭

When I didn’t bring lunch, I would order the work meal. There were about 18 or 20 KFC work meal combos, always including cola. I adored the New Orleans Wings but couldn’t afford to order them separately. If they came in a combo, I would splurge and savor the meal.

At that time, my salary was 3500 RMB. After working for half a year, I saved enough to buy a washing machine and a TV for my family, earning recognition from all the elders in my village. People assumed I was thriving away from home. But I worked extremely hard. I hated taking the bus due to motion sickness. Commuting for morning and evening shifts left me feeling deeply depressed.

2. Entering Crypto and Saying Goodbye to KFC

At the end of 2015, I met my first boss by taking a Didi ride in his BMW. Didi had just entered the Nanjing market, with rides costing just over 2 RMB. The bus also cost 2 RMB, but transfers totaled 4 RMB, so I naturally chose Didi. My boss perceived me as very open to sharing. After attending an Amway course, I rode home in his car. He reasoned that since I could accept courses like Amway’s, I was open-minded enough to embrace crypto or financial pyramid schemes.

My boss operated financial pyramid schemes using crypto. At that time, I had just graduated and understood little. During his meetings, I served his clients diligently. Once, for business purposes, he introduced us to #Bitcoin and #Ethereum for the first time. My eyes lit up. Ethereum had dropped from over $20 to $3, and market users were despairing, but then it surged to over $800 (details are fuzzy and might be slightly inaccurate). I first encountered Yunbi exchange. I went home and researched how to deposit and withdraw.

Unfortunately, from late 2016 to 2017, I missed a 20 million RMB opportunity. Yunbi featured many coins like SC that surged a thousand-fold. I was nearly among the top 100 holders on the platform but sold out after some fluctuations. Crypto awakened my greed. From then on, I scorned working for others and enrolled in a semi-pyramid scheme course costing about 80,000 RMB. How could someone earning 3500 RMB a month afford that? Loans, credit cards, and online lending became my primary funding sources. In the following years, I sank into a debt hell.

I borrowed 30,000 RMB and repaid over 50,000 RMB to Yirendai in less than a year. The memory remains vivid. Later, the company that promised results from the course collapsed, but many people like me were squeezed dry by it. Companies went bankrupt, marriages ended, and young people like me lived burdened by debt. During that course, I also met a scoundrel who tricked me into buying fake forex in 2017, causing me and my friends to lose over 100,000 RMB. At that point, I no longer qualified to sit down and eat KFC.

After finishing my university internship and returning for graduation, I passed by a KFC and swallowed hard. I told my elders in a small chat group that I desperately wanted to eat KFC and indulge once. One lady offered me 50 RMB to eat as much as I wanted, but I declined.

3. The Days Without KFC Qualifications

Borrowed 80,000 to All In on #EOS

During my darkest, most indebted days, in the 2017 crypto bull market after the ‘94 incident’, many coins surged hundreds to thousands of times. My EOS holdings on an exchange yielded a 10x profit, amounting to tens of thousands. This opened my eyes.

Borrowing Money Revealed People’s True Colors

Everyone praised me, saying I had potential and worked hard. But when I asked to borrow money, a gentle lady suddenly turned fierce like a tiger. She claimed she was at a KTV and couldn’t hear me, had no money to lend, and told me to find someone else. She used to say she sometimes felt sorry for me and wanted to give me 5,000 RMB. This abrupt shift left me speechless.

Decided to Borrow 80,000 Online

I found a young guy online who was very eager to lend me money, taking a high interest cut. Luckily, there was a senior Chinese ICP investor and ambassador I call "Senior Brother." After meeting me once in Nanjing, he gave me 50,000 RMB and advised me not to borrow further. He was from Shandong. I still recall his kindness. But I remained poor. The ICP private sale I participated in with him didn’t issue tokens for years during the bear market. Eventually, my senior brother ran out of money and demanded repayment. At that time, I was likely pregnant and drowning in debt, with no funds to repay him. I truly felt remorseful. When ICP tokens were finally issued, the private sale portion offset 50,000 RMB of my debt. But my brother was heartbroken.

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