Why Do Men and Women in Beijing Keep Not Getting Married? (A Perfect Closed Loop)

@Signal and Noise: A girl who grinded her way from another province to Beijing and works at a major tech company in Wangjing feels she has successfully navigated the "small-town test-taker" path and naturally deserves a partner who can provide a safety net. So, she sets her sights on an algorithm engineer who leads a team at the same company and earns a hefty annual package.

The algorithm engineer grinded his way up from a provincial key high school to a 985 university, and finally to a master's or PhD at Tsinghua or Peking University. He hopes to build a family with high education, high income, and high certainty. So, he sets his sights on a junior product manager who just joined the company through social recruitment, thinking to himself: "I referred her, polished her resume, and did mock interviews for her; she must have somewhat of a filter for me