After graduating with a masters in accounting from the University of NSW in 2019, Li Yuanjing went back to China to start her career at a top international firm in Beijing.
It didn't take long for Ms Li, who grew up in the nearby city of Tianjin, to make friends in the capital.
On her Chinese social media profile she used "tags" to describe herself as "a half-hearted stargazer", a wanderer and an extrovert who followed her intuition and feelings.