In 2025, 40-year-old Zhang Ming collapses from exhaustion beside the assembly line, his whole life as insignificant as dust. When he opens his eyes again, he finds himself back in a rented room in 1989, now 24 and freshly unemployed. His pockets are empty and the road ahead is uncertain, but he unexpectedly binds to a “Spirit Spring Space,” containing a spring that nourishes all things and a hundred mu of fertile black soil.
This is an age full of opportunity. The fresh winds of reform sweep across the land, bringing self-employed businesses, a rush to enter the private sector, the beginnings of the stock market... Armed with memories of the future and the golden finger of his space, Zhang Ming is no longer an insignificant nobody swept along by the tide. He uses the spring water to grow out-of-season vegetables and the black soil to cultivate scarce saplings. Starting with a street stall, he builds a factory, rising from obscurity to become “Brother Ming” of the business world.
He seizes the pulse of the times, proceeding carefully through the gaps between policy and the market. He makes up for the regrets of his past life and protects his friends and family. Amid the surging tides of the 1990s, he carves out a path to success of his own, making the name “Brother Ming” an indelible mark on that golden age.
