Reborn as the stubborn holdout in a Beijing courtyard, Li Yi has barely opened his eyes when Yi Zhonghai bellows, “Your parents are dead, so give the Jia family the two vacant rooms!”
Li Yi sneers and grabs the Third Master, who’s trying to stage a fake accident. “If your back’s in bad shape, you’d better stop causing trouble.” He snatches up an enamel mug and smashes it straight into Yi Zhonghai’s nose. As police sirens ring out through the courtyard, everyone trembles. Could that good-for-nothing really have dared to hit someone?
On the day he moves out of the rundown courtyard, Li Yi drives off in his brand-new motorized tricycle, with Xu Huizhen in a red cheongsam riding beside him. Later, word spreads through the whole neighborhood that the poor kid they once drove away has opened three food factories in the south of the city. Even more astonishingly, the factory beauty in his arms is the very woman who once called him a country bumpkin.
Years later, in a hospital corridor, Yi Zhonghai, breathing through a tube, watches Li Yi being interviewed on TV. On screen, his twelve mixed-race sons all shout “Dad!” in unison. Beside the hospital bed, Jia Dongxu suddenly cries out, “Dad! He... he even bought the Red Star Steel Mill!”
