People say that behind every successful man, there is a woman who silently supports him, and for Ma Yun, there is also a dream lover behind him who has been haunting his dreams.
In 2004, a 44-year-old Japanese actress, Yumiko Araki, appeared on CCTV's "Art Life" interview program.
Later, after careful understanding, netizens found that Ma Yun actually went to Japan six times to find her whereabouts, and she came to China at the invitation of Ma Yun.
Jack Ma and Yumiko Araki
Later, in the many interview programs that Ma Yun participated in, the relationship between the two for decades was gradually understood by everyone.
The spiritual dynamic of youth
Ma Yun first met this dream lover in his youth.
When Ma Yun first took the college entrance examination, although he fought all day and night like other students, he still fell behind Sun Shan after careful preparation.
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In that era, high school graduates were already highly educated talents, and college students were even more hot, so only a few people could be admitted to universities in the village, and those who were admitted to prestigious universities were even rarer.
Therefore, some relatives around Ma Yun advised him that if he did not enter the university, he would be able to find a good job by going out with a high Chinese, but Ma Yun still chose to repeat the study.
He knew in his heart that he wanted more than just a diploma, but a different vision.
In the second year of the college entrance examination review process, Ma Yun carefully formulated a new review plan based on the experience and lessons learned in the previous year's study.
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In addition to continuing to consolidate the relatively good liberal arts, he also tried to make up for the shortcomings in mathematics, so the next year he went to the college entrance examination again with full expectations, thinking that although he might not be able to enter a very good university this time, he could at least learn.
However, the sky is not the same, Ma Yun in the second college entrance examination again fell off the list, this failure really caused a certain degree of blow to Ma Yun, although not to become completely discouraged, but also fell into a deep dazed, even if they can still adhere to continue to take the exam, then how many years to be able to take the exam to be admitted to the university?
In the dead of night, Ma Yun lay in bed for a long time and could not sleep, and he could also go out to find a job with a high Chinese, but college graduates were different from high school students in terms of vision and starting point.
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In addition, for their own appearance, although they do not feel inferior, but in the future path of life, if they do not rely on more knowledge and broader insights, what can they rely on to succeed?
College is a good path to pursue greater happiness through knowledge and insight, but my current academic performance, even after unremitting efforts, seems to be close to its ceiling.
Especially the poor math score, it is already difficult to achieve significant improvement, and it is already difficult to re-study with such a grade, and how many years will it take to enter the university?
Just when Ma Yun was hesitating about whether to continue to re-read things during the summer vacation, frowning and thinking about tea, he accidentally came into contact with a TV series that almost played a role in changing his entire destiny.
Stills from the TV series "Volleyball Girl"
At that time, not every family had television sets, and once Ma Yun went to see TV with his classmates, when a TV series "Volleyball Girl" was broadcast on the screen from Japan to China.
The heroine of the TV series, Junko Koga, is intelligent and cheerful, and her cheerfulness and self-motivation have deeply attracted Ma Yun, although her mother died of illness when the little girl was young, but she has always been able to maintain an optimistic attitude towards life.
In order to fulfill her mother's unfulfilled dreams when she was young, Junko Ogre began practicing volleyball with the support of her father from the age of four.
Later, after going to Tokyo to join the high school girls' volleyball team, Junko Oga and her teammates united in training together in order to achieve better results, worked hard, experienced various difficulties, and finally successfully entered the Olympic Games.
Junko Fawn in the TV series "Volleyball Girl"
Ma Yun was deeply impressed by the wisdom and beauty of Junko Xiaolu and his cheerful ambition, and the gray mood that had lingered for a long time because of falling off the list had also disappeared at this time, and the left and right entanglements about whether to continue to re-read or give up on it were gradually left behind.
For the next ten consecutive days, Ma Yun went to his classmates' homes every day, just so that he could fully watch the daily updated episodes of "Volleyball Girl".
Whenever his family asked him about his plans for his future life, Ma Yun always kept his mouth shut, as if he had already forgotten his confused self not long ago, and it seemed that his life had a new hope because of the emergence of the TV series "Volleyball Girl".
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Ten days later, at the end of the broadcast of "Volleyball Girl", Ma Yun still felt unfinished and endlessly reminiscent, and when his mind gradually returned from the addiction to the TV series to reality, his mental outlook had long since lost the downturn when he had just fallen off the list.
In this regard, he firmly made a decision: to continue to re-study, he must be admitted to college.
After the beginning of the summer vacation, although Ma Yun could no longer watch the TV series "Volleyball Women", the voice and smile of the volleyball players in the play, as well as their optimistic and cheerful and tenacious appearance, have been deeply engraved in Ma Yun's mind.
Junko Fawn in the TV series "Volleyball Girl"
Whenever he becomes physically and mentally exhausted because of a long period of study, as long as he thinks of the various plots in "Volleyball Girl", Ma Yun will soon become energetic again.
In the process of Ma Yun's third college entrance examination review for nearly a year, the TV series "Volleyball Girl" has become one of the important sources of motivation for Ma Yun, and it can even be said without exaggeration that the heroine of it, Junko Fawn, has become Ma Yun's dream lover.
Kung Fu paid off, Ma Yun finally successfully entered the university in the third college entrance examination, and successfully entered Hangzhou Normal College, majoring in English.
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Ma Yun cherishes this hard-won opportunity to go to college, studies extremely hard, in addition to going to and from the teaching building, library, canteen and dormitory every day, he also specially goes to hangzhou where there are more foreigners, and cheekily takes the initiative to communicate with foreigners.
Whether he said it well or badly, he didn't care, because he knew in his heart that his goal was to practice English well.
For the TV series "Volleyball Girl" that once provided himself with great spiritual motivation, although Ma Yun did not deliberately find relevant video resources to watch repeatedly, junko's voice and smile and the various good characters he showed have been deeply engraved in Ma Yun's heart and become part of his personality.
Stills from the TV series "Volleyball Girl"
The psychological pillar on the road to entrepreneurship
When he graduated from college, Ma Yun was left as an English teacher by the school with excellent results, and although he was very happy about it, his desire for success did not stop himself.
Because he is an English teacher in a university, Ma Yun has the opportunity to travel abroad as a temporary translator for others, and over time, not only is his English translation ability more and more pure, but his personal vision is constantly broadened.
Later, Ma Yun discovered the entrepreneurial business opportunities hidden in the international development trend with his unique vision, and after careful consideration, he resigned as a teacher and began to start a business in the sea.
In the era when the entrepreneurial tide had just begun, the Internet business that Ma Yun was optimistic about was not favored by many people, even if Ma Yun persevered in many ways, went to the government department to handle various relevant qualifications, or visited various related companies to discuss cooperation intentions, but many people regarded him as a liar and refused.
Failures and setbacks hit Ma Yun again and again, but Ma Yun did not lose confidence in this, no matter what kind of setbacks he encountered, he could always learn from them and then move forward with confidence.
During this period, there are a few companies that do similar business, all of which have collapsed because they can't see hope, but Ma Yun can always insist on going all the way, and the reason why he can have such a strong perseverance is inseparable from the spiritual comfort given to him by his dream lover Junko Fawn.
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As an ordinary female student, Junko Xiaolu can walk into the Olympic arena with her teammates through unremitting efforts, and Ma Yun also believes that she can achieve the success she wants in her career through perseverance.
After several years of market and technical competition, Alibaba, founded by Ma Yun, finally showed its prominence in the Chinese market, and quickly developed rapidly, and Ma Yun also changed from a "liar" in people's mouths to the leading Internet business tycoon in China.
Ma Yun, who has achieved great success in his career, looks back on the past at this time, whether it is the early college entrance examination, or the later sea business, every time he loses and battles, he still remembers it vividly.
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And whenever he is in trouble, he can get great motivation from it, that is, the TV series "Volleyball Girl" that he still remembers, and his dream lover Junko Oda.
Look for the lover of your dreams
By chance, he once again found video resources about the TV series, looking at the familiar scenes playing on the screen in front of him, as if his struggle along the way also flashed through his mind like a movie.
Now he clearly realized that his life had already been invisibly integrated with "Volleyball Girl" and Junko Koji.
Junko Fawn
Because of his nostalgia for the role of Junko Oda, Ma Yun could not help but begin to learn more about the actor Yumiko Araki who played this role in his spare time, when he discovered that the original life course of Yumiko Araki was as inspiring as the fawn Junko she played.
When she was a teenager, Yumiko Araki was just an ordinary girl, and did not have the heart to enter the entertainment industry, and later a small famous star scout accidentally discovered her sweet appearance and beautiful temperament, and with the encouragement of the scout, she began to appear in the public through talent shows.
However, after participating in the show many times at first, no TV station or entertainment company asked her to sign a contract, and at the end of a talent show, Yumiko Araki couldn't help but shed tears of sadness.
Yumiko Araki, who plays Junko Ogre
However, this cry of hers was filmed by media reporters, and after this shot was broadcast, her popularity soared rapidly, and the ratings of the programs she participated in doubled.
Soon an entertainment company came to the door, and Yumiko Araki successfully signed a debut, and the company specially created a youth idol TV series "Volleyball Girl".
In order to successfully make this TV series, Yumiko Araki, who is just in her early twenties, has undergone another arduous trial.
Since Yumiko Araki's height of 1 meter 51 did not meet the standards of a volleyball player, she needed to use some props to make up for the lack of height when filming, although there were various discomforts, but he always tried to persevere.
Yumiko Araki
In order to play the role of a volleyball player, Yumiko Araki improved her physical fitness through systematic running training, and in volleyball training, occasional physical injuries were inevitable, and it was precisely because of this that Yumiko Araki's filming process and Junko's training story almost merged into one, and later the TV series was widely praised by the audience as soon as it was broadcast.
After Ma Yun learned about Yumiko Araki herself, he felt that she was so similar to the fawn Junko who haunted his dreams, and he seemed to have suddenly crossed the limitations of space and developed a certain connection with the woman in reality.
He then decides to visit Yumiko Araki.
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Ma Yun quickly took the time to go to Japan expectantly, but the result disappointed him.
Because the TV series "Volleyball Girl" was set in the Moscow Olympic Games, and it was in the Cold War period between the United States and the Soviet Union, the United States did not recognize the Moscow Olympic Games, and Japan was in the capitalist camp led by the United States, so the TV series was hidden in the snow shortly after it was broadcast.
And it has been many years, Araki Yumiko has already withdrawn from the entertainment circle because of marriage, Ma Yun inquired in many ways, and did not get the whereabouts of Araki Yumiko, had to return disappointed.
However, he did not give up, and in the days that followed, he either traveled by business or made a special trip, and went to Japan five times to look for Yumiko Araki, and finally got in touch with Yumiko Araki as he wished, and after Ma Yun explained his identity and indicated his intentions, Yumiko Araki agreed to meet with him.
However, due to the difference in language and the fact that Ma Yun had important things to fly back to China at that time, the first meeting between the two lasted only 15 minutes, and it was hastily concluded before the opening began.
To Ma's delight, before he left, Yumiko Araki offered to find time to visit him in China.
Yumiko Araki
In 2004, the 44-year-old Yumiko Araki really came to China, and after meeting and talking with Jack Ma, she also participated in the China CCTV talk show "Art Life".
After forming a relationship with China, Yumiko Araki became more and more interested in Chinese culture, frequently participating in Chinese social activities, and also opened a microblog to interact with Chinese netizens.
In 2021, she cheered on China's women's volleyball team on Weibo, and in early 2022, she also posted pictures on Weibo to share the official closing of the Beijing Winter Olympics.