How an Impulsive Young Man Achieved a Wealth Comeback

This young man is very impulsive. He took his buddies to start a business, imagining a dreamy future, but reality turned out to be... Watch how this impulsive young man pulled off a successful comeback, breaking through 180 million in 5 years!

Pork salesperson: Line up and eat. Good, the auntie has already finished one piece and is ready for the next.

Li Longlei: Line up, line up.

You read that right. What they are eating is pure fat.

Such a big chunk of fat looks quite intimidating, but this auntie ate 5 big pieces in one go!

Li Longlei: The auntie has finished her fifth piece, and the uncle has started his fifth. Good, the auntie has successfully finished five pieces of Longlin black pork.

Li Longlei: As long as you dare to eat, I dare to give. Today we are here holding the Longlin black pork fat-eating contest. For every piece of fat you eat, we will give you a 10-yuan voucher.

His name is Li Longlei, the organizer of this fat-eating contest.

Eat one piece of fat and get a 10-yuan voucher. The contest attracted more and more onlookers.

Consumer: Eat more.

Staff member: That is the uncle's tenth piece.

Li Longlei: The tenth piece. Uncle Lu, go for it. Uncle Lu, go for it, Uncle Lu, go for it.

This uncle ate 10 pieces of fat in one go!

Li Longlei: Challenging 10 pieces.

Staff member: Uncle, come collect your prize.

Li Longlei: First give this uncle here his five pieces. Successfully challenged 5 pieces. Good. Because Uncle Lu successfully challenged 10 pieces of Longlin black pork fat, his reward is a 200-yuan voucher.

The contest was in full swing, and more and more vouchers were given out. But the purpose of this contest was not just to give out vouchers and boost sales. In Li Longlei's view, behind this fat-eating contest was a 180 million market waiting to be tapped.

Li Longlei was born in Longlin Various Ethnic Groups Autonomous County, Guangxi, and is a 30-year-old young man of the Yi ethnic group. Five years ago, he had nothing and nearly could not even afford food. Five years later, he created a miracle with annual sales of 180 million. Li Longlei says all of this is the result of impulsiveness. But in his family's eyes, Li Longlei is not just impulsive.

Grandfather: I was afraid he would be thrown into jail.

Reporter: You were all afraid he would go down the wrong path.

Grandfather: Yes.

Reporter: You had thought about this possibility in your heart?

Grandfather: I had.

It turns out Li Longlei was once a troubled teenager. He was expelled from school twice for fighting, and his family had once given up hope on him.

Grandfather: I do not know how he got expelled from school. It hurt my heart. Instead of being a good person, he wanted to be a bad person.

Father: Of course I hoped he would make something of himself.

Reporter: At that time, given the way he was, did you think he would make something of himself?

Father: Definitely not. I did not even dare to think about it.

After being expelled and sent home just two years into vocational school, Li Longlei spent every day drinking with his buddies in the village and occasionally causing trouble. In those days, the person Li Longlei admired most was the street gangster.

Buddy: Whenever he was around, we walked tall. In our village, he was Chen Haonan, and I was Chicken. We were always fighting, and he was the one leading.

Reporter: Leading fights?

Buddy: Yes.

Reporter: Group fights?

Buddy: Group fights. Carrying knives. Now it is holding knives.

Reporter: You used knives when fighting back then too? Was it that serious?

Buddy: Back then, sometimes we would occasionally use them to scare people, but I never saw him actually use a knife to slash anyone.

Li Longlei: I got excited easily, like a hornet. The slightest touch and I would go off.

Reporter: Are you still like that now?

Li Longlei: Not anymore. Now you have to have a higher level of self-cultivation.

In the village, the adults all thought Li Longlei was beyond saving.

Great-uncle: When he caused trouble and would not listen to me, I hit him.

Reporter: You chased him with a stick to hit him.

Great-uncle: Right, chased him to hit him, and he would run.

Reporter: Really? He was that much trouble as a child.

Great-uncle: Because his temper was bad.

Reporter: Bad temper, always fighting.

Great-uncle: He went out specifically to fight. I told him, if you keep fighting like this, you are breaking the law, and the police will arrest you. He would not listen, so I swung a wooden stick at him.

Buddy: The person my dad least wanted me to hang around with was Li Longlei. Back then my dad said Li Longlei would never amount to anything, that he was a bad egg.

Reporter: He would not let you play with him?

Buddy: Right, but I still loved sticking with him every day.

Reporter: Why?

Buddy: Because he was a true friend.

After being expelled from school, Li Longlei also felt that idling around at home every day was not a solution, so he went to Beihai to work as a cement worker at a relative's construction site. At that time, this 18-year-old youth experienced the hardships of life for the first time.

Li Longlei: I put four bags of cement onto a wheelbarrow at the same time and went up a small slope. People my age could all pull it up, but when I got there I got stuck. The cement was heavy, and the handles swung up and hit me on both sides. I got injured, here on my hand.

After 10 days, Li Longlei ran away from the construction site with not a single cent on him and no way to go home, so he slept in a park. It was that night sleeping in the park that Li Longlei nearly made a huge mistake.

Li Longlei: When it got dark and the streetlights came on, there was an ATM next to the park, a bank ATM. I watched people come to withdraw money, and I thought, why do others have money to withdraw and I do not? If I could also go withdraw some money, 100 yuan would be enough, not more, 100 yuan would be enough to get home. At the time I thought, when I saw someone come to withdraw money, I said I could go ask him for it. If he gave it, I would count it as borrowing from him. If he did not give it, I would rob him. Rob 100 yuan and I could go home. At that time I had this thought.

Although he had often caused trouble before, he had never thought about breaking the law. Yet because of 100 yuan, he actually had this terrifying thought. In that instant, Li Longlei felt deep self-reproach. In the end, he still called a classmate for help. It was precisely this experience that completely changed him.

Li Longlei: In Beihai, I resolved to change this miserable life.

After returning from Beihai, Li Longlei went back to school, admitted his mistakes to the teachers and classmates, and started over for another year. After graduating from vocational school in 2005, he and three classmates came to Nanning to work in sales at a feed company. Li Longlei, quick-witted and efficient, was highly valued by his leaders. By 2010, he had become assistant to the sales general manager, with an annual salary of 100,000 yuan. But at this point Li Longlei felt very uneasy inside, and he decided to resign immediately. He had only enjoyed the good life for a few days. What exactly happened?