In 2023, overworked office drone Lin Weidong drops dead at his desk after another all-nighter. When he opens his eyes, he’s become Lin Weidong, the “wife-beater” of the Hongqi Production Team in 1983. They share the same name, but he’s inherited a complete mess: a bare-walled home, gambling debts, and a wife and daughter who tremble in fear at the sight of the former owner. There’s Su Guiying, his beautiful but battered wife, and their timid five-year-old daughter, Yaya.
Alone in his previous life, and now starting out in hell? Lin Weidong is determined to defy fate and change his life. He has the secrets to wealth from the coming decades, and knows the wave of private businesses is about to arrive and where the policy winds will blow.
But the first step to turning his life around is shedding that “wife-beater” label.
“Rest, honey. I’ll work the fields!”
“Yaya, Daddy will buy you White Rabbit candy!”
“Gambling? I’m never touching it again!”
When a shameless, lazy bum suddenly turns into a devoted husband and doting father, the whole village is in an uproar. Some are waiting for him to show his true colors, but Lin Weidong proves them wrong with actions: he earns his first fortune by taking advantage of information gaps, builds a brick house and opens a factory, becoming a well-known ten-thousand-yuan household in the area.
More importantly, he gradually gives the mother and daughter he once hurt the tenderness he failed to show them in his previous life. From a desperate home full of chaos to a happy, comfortably well-off family, Lin Weidong rides the spring breeze of the 1980s and proves one thing: a man who treats his wife well is bound to have good luck.
