In 2024, overworked office worker Lin Wei was calculating the shortfall on her mortgage when she died suddenly from working overtime. When she opened her eyes, she was back in 2004, in a rented apartment in Jiangcheng, as a dirt-poor third-year university student. Even more absurdly, a “Late-1990s Urban Fortune-Making System” had appeared in her mind, handing her an ultimate mission: earn one million yuan within four years or remain trapped in the past forever!
She has none of a reborn person's heaven-defying memories, only a hazy information advantage spanning twenty years and a money-making System that keeps pushing her to hurry. Lin Wei looks at the 50-yuan debt record on her Nokia, then out the window at housing prices of 3,000 yuan per square meter, the fledgling online shopping boom, and the World Cup about to begin...
From handing out flyers to scrape together startup capital, to cashing in on the milk tea craze with a night-market stall; from betting on the World Cup to earn her first pot of gold, to buying up property and testing the waters of e-commerce, then joining the internet boom as it takes off. Once crushed by performance targets, this office worker uses the System's prompts and her foresight to rise, in the golden age of the early millennium, from a poor student in 50 yuan of debt to a “legend of wealth” in everyone else's eyes.
But as she pursues riches, how does she unexpectedly run into her father when he was young, dirt-poor, and still years away from a life of ruin after a failed investment? Looking at the “business plan” clutched in his hands, Lin Wei tightens her grip on her wallet. “Dad, listen to me. We are not investing in this. Let's sell milk tea, buy property, or do e-commerce with me!”
On one side, the System is pushing her to earn a million yuan so she can return to the modern day. On the other, she wants to rewrite her father's fate. Standing on a street in Jiangcheng in 2004, Lin Wei grips the Nokia in her hand. This time, she won't just get rich; she'll turn every regret into a happy ending.
