Against the Tide in 1975

**A car crash turns her from a business queen into a village girl in the 1970s; reborn, she sets out to rewrite the era and her own fate.** In 2023, Lan Jin, CEO of a multinational technology group, gets into a car accident after successfully concluding a negotiation. When she wakes, she discovers she has transmigrated to a northern village in 1975 and become Lan Zhaodi, an eighteen-year-old country girl. A dilapidated mud house, a family that favors sons over daughters, backward farming methods, and an arranged marriage in which her parents treat her as a bargaining chip: faced with it all, she decides to use modern knowledge to defy fate. ** [Outsmarting the Village, Starting from Scratch]** From improving grain-drying methods to secretly running a black-market business, from organizing women to start their own ventures to standing up to corrupt village bullies, Lan Jin uses her business acumen to carve a way forward through the constraints of the planned economy. When news comes that the college entrance exams are being reinstated, she studies during the day and reads banned books by lamplight at night, joining forces with Ji Mingyuan, a Tsinghua professor sent to the countryside, to use knowledge to pry open the shackles of fate. ** [The Truth Emerges, A Mystery of Her Origins]** An old case involving the drowning death of a sent-down youth reveals a shocking secret about her birth: the birthmark on Lan Jin's ankle, the Shanghai watch chain treasured by her younger brother Baogen, the birth certificate in barefoot doctor Wu Qiaozhen's medicine chest... Every clue points to that bloody night at the county hospital in 1972. When family ties clash with the truth, she must choose between emotional bonds and self-redemption. ** [Against the Current, Riding the Tides of the Era]** When the spring thunder of reform and opening-up sounds, Lan Jin has already transformed from a workshop laborer into one of the first leaders of a township enterprise. Foreign investment, policy risks, and technological barriers: with her far-sighted vision, she rides the waves of the era