Back to 1978: I Made My Fortune Fixing Junk

In the height of summer, 1978, the great wave of educated youths returning to their hometowns swept across the city.

Lin Chen, burdened with modern-day experience, transmigrates into the tragic original host and returns to the dire straits of Forty-Nine Alley from the start.

In his previous life, the original host gave three years of wholehearted devotion to the wrong person, only for his girlfriend, Meng Hua, to cozy up to the powerful and dump him in public. He endured everyone’s scorn. His birth family favored others to an extreme, and even his own flesh and blood treated him coldly. With no food, no money, and no one to rely on, he died in despair.

Given a second life, Lin Chen cuts off the emotional turmoil of romance, sees through the warmth and coldness of human nature, and refuses to be weak or ingratiating.

With jobs in the system saturated and every path into government service firmly blocked, he finds himself at the end of his rope, just as the God-Tier Repair System gradually awakens!

Detecting flaws, repairing objects, turning trash into treasure: damaged hardware, old furniture, and broken antiques can all be restored and made more valuable.

No sudden riches from heaven, no privileged connections, no powerful network that lets him skip the line.

He puts down roots in the neighborhood, sets up a stall to repair junk, earns his first pot of gold, looks after his soft-hearted neighbors, settles the romantic debts of his past life, delivers face-slapping justice to his snobbish relatives and friends, and protects the kind people around him.

From a down-and-out educated youth returning to his hometown, he steadily builds his skills, seizes the opportunities of the times, and makes his fortune from scratch with his repair trade, rising to the pinnacle of wealth and rewriting the fate of the common people!

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.