Reborn in 1970: Success in Business and Love
In 1978, Lin Weidong, whose business ventures had ended in failure, is reborn on a field ridge during the autumn harvest. The dirt mark left by the team leader's clod of earth is still on the back of his neck, but in his hands he holds the key to changing his fate. The first winds of reform and opening up are blowing, restrictions are beginning to loosen, and the barren hillside behind the village, the stalls in the county seat, and goods sourced from other cities all offer him a path to success.
He asks his gentle, capable neighbor and cousin, Su Xiaoyan, for start-up money. She not only gives him three years' worth of private savings, but is also willing to tend the livestock shed and make pickles with him. She always keeps a hot meal for him until late at night. When he meets Xia Lan, a Shanghai-educated youth with an open mind, she uses the wording of policy documents to get him out of a jam and postpones her return to the city to help him connect with suppliers in Shanghai. Their shared late nights checking orders conceal her admiration for him. He covers the medical expenses of Zhao Chunlan, a widow raising a child alone, and she repays him with her life: she visits every village to sell eggs and shields him from the neighbors' gossip, making her reliance on him part of everyday life. There is also the outspoken supply-and-marketing cooperative saleswoman Liu Yumei, the thoughtful commune nurse Zhou Li, the nimble-fingered tailor Wu Xiulian, and the spirited woman driver Chen Hong. They help him open up business channels, protect him, or venture into commerce by his side. One by one, their heartfelt affections become bound to him.
From raising livestock in the countryside to opening a shop in the county seat, then building a chain across the region, Lin Weidong grasps every opportunity and advances steadily in business. Faced with the different feelings of seven women, he comes to understand his own heart amid gratitude and stirring emotions, and ultimately holds on to the purest companionship. This is the story of a man who makes a fortune amid the tides of his era, finds a love meant for him alone, and leads those around him toward better lives. Wealth in his left hand, true love in his right: his double success in the 1970s begins here.
