Reborn: How I Ended Up Worked to the Bone at a Design Institute

​​Other people are reborn with golden fingers and get to live out the high-flying life of a feel-good novel.​​

​​Lin Lin is reborn and still crammed into a four-square-meter partitioned room, earning a salary of 2,400 yuan and revising drawings at the design institute until midnight.​​

The administrative teacher’s cold stares, the greasy department head’s provocations, Director Zhang’s empty promises, and that cup of soy milk that’s always gone cold... She’s no less put-upon in this life than she was in her last!

​​But this time, she has the future in her pocket.​​

​​Being reborn isn’t a vacation. It’s returning to the beginner’s village with maxed-out experience!​​ She knows which project is headed for disaster, which boss is about to fall, and which emerging technology is about to take off. Once meek and timid, “Little Lin” begins learning how to strike with precision in the cracks between the rules.

​​Her goal is simple:​​ First, keep her job. Then, turn the tables on workplace bullying. And finally, make everyone who calls her “Little Lin” willingly address her as “Engineer Lin”!​​

Then, on Mid-Autumn Night, amid the smoke curling over a barbecue stall, a weary-looking civil engineer hands her a skewer of grilled meat. “It was tougher than this in Africa.” There seems to be a secret in the way he looks at her...