Name: Hunting in '83: Back to the Golden Age of the Xing'an Mountains
Author: Old Friends from Dragon City

Synopsis

The winter of 1983, in the Greater Khingan Mountains of Northeast China.

When 59-year-old forest ranger Leng Zhijun wakes up, he finds himself back on the snowy plains at age seventeen, at the tragic turning point that left him disfigured, forced his younger sister into an arranged marriage, and drove his parents to exhaustion and illness.

In his previous life, he and his childhood friend Liu Zhengang recklessly hunted a wild boar and nearly died beneath its tusks. This time, drawing on his past-life experience, he hunts boars with a knife, ambushes roe deer with a slingshot, and outsmarts black bears, carving out a path to survival in the vast forest. He sells squirrel pelts for cash, hides ginseng, and trades on the black market, changing his family's impoverished fate one step at a time.

But beyond the mountains, human nature is even more dangerous. Village bully Wang Dapao watches him like a hawk, an iron box left behind by the Japanese draws out the secrets of his father's past, and hidden currents of change swirl beneath the forestry station's job openings...

This is a hunt, not just for beasts, but against fate itself.

As the cold wind whips up the snow and gunshots and roars echo through the mountains,

this time, he will not lose again.

Other names

Reborn in the Great Northeast, 1983: Deer Cry on the Northern Slope重生大东北1983之鹿鸣北坡Alternate title on Fanqie

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1.6kReads · 30 days

67.7kReads · all time

124Shelf adds, last 14 days

5.9Score

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