A few warnings up front:
Reborn and transmigration, no System, one male lead with romantic entanglements.
The male lead was an orphan in his previous life. He is reborn in 1978 in the body of an educated youth. Note that he has not returned to his own youth. He understands the environment he finds himself in, but is unfamiliar with the local realities.
The male lead is not a good person. All his motives revolve around his desire for a stable family life.
The body he transmigrates into belongs to someone with a bad local reputation. Influenced by his surroundings, the male lead gradually sheds the halo of an honest man, but he still puts family first.
The book will include glimpses of the era as I understand it, though they are not entirely accurate. This is not a rural story in the traditional sense of this site.
Several characters will struggle with their love lives, and the story covers a variety of themes.
Synopsis:
Zhang Guoqing is middle-aged when he dies suddenly after work and transmigrates into the body of an educated youth in the late 1970s.
He is delighted by his transmigration. In his previous life, he was an orphan, and life had brought him no joy. He had never experienced the happiness of family life, either. In this new life, he wants to experience the life of an ordinary person.
