Reborn in 1982: I Married the Factory’s Most Beautiful Woman

In the bitter winter of 1982, at the Red Star Textile Mill, where the temperature has dropped to minus fifteen degrees, Lin Chen is reborn at the moment of his death from terminal lung cancer. He arrives just in time to catch Zhao Qiang framing him for spying on his sister-in-law, Su Wan, while she bathed.

In his previous life, Lin Chen was falsely accused and ruined, Su Wan was driven to suicide, and their enemy rose to become a business tycoon by stepping over their corpses. This time, armed with forty years of memories, Lin Chen publicly exposes every detail of Zhao Qiang’s frame-up. To the shock of the entire factory, he then proposes to Su Wan: “I’ll spend my whole life making amends and keeping you safe.”

Despite being condemned for “marrying his sister-in-law,” he uses his memories to seize every opportunity brought by reform and opening up: stockpiling fabric to earn his first fortune, securing prime storefronts before they’re demolished, leveraging the dual-track pricing system to mobilize capital, rescuing a loss-making workshop with technological improvements, and making a bold bet on land during the development of Pudong. In the end, he builds a business empire spanning textiles, electronics, and real estate.

From a lowly factory worker everyone looked down on to a titan of his age who protects the woman he loves and changes his family’s fate, Lin Chen uses his knowledge of the future to plant the seeds of his own legend in the soil of the 1980s. And Su Wan, once crushed by fate, blossoms under his protection from an insecure widow into a soulmate who stands by his side.