Reborn in 1969: I Support My Family by Hunting

Lin Feng, a modern outdoor adventure blogger and sharpshooter, dies in a landslide during a rescue mission deep in the mountains. When he opens his eyes, he has been reborn in 1969 in Kaoshan Village, on the northeastern frontier. He is now a 19-year-old boy who recently broke his leg in a fall while gathering medicinal herbs, with his family gathered around him in worry.

It is a difficult era, and supplies in the village are desperately scarce. The family eats wild vegetable porridge mixed with acorn flour for every meal. His father, Lin Laoshi, a production team forest ranger, has been reprimanded for "losing half a bag of corn seeds due to lax supervision." His mother, Li Xiulan, has secretly hidden away a few potatoes for his sick grandmother. His little sister, Lin Xiaomei, is only ten, yet she follows the team to gather firewood, her hands covered in chilblains. What weighs on him most is Su Xue, a girl from a neighboring village whom he knew in his previous life. Because her family has the wrong class background, she is about to be sent to work at a remote forestry station, where she will endure ten years of hardship in the bitter cold. Su Xue is known in the village as an educated woman: she can read and do accounts, and has secretly learned to identify medicinal herbs from a hunter. She is both resilient and gentle.

Armed with modern wilderness survival knowledge, a sharpshooter's instincts, and an understanding of the 1969 forestry policies, which allow collective hunting teams into the mountains while requiring individuals to register, Lin Feng resolves to make his start through legal hunting. Before the mountains are closed for winter, he will take his father's old hunting rifle, a registered forest-ranger weapon, into the mountains to hunt rabbits and pheasants. He will improve his family's meals and trade his catch for ration and cloth coupons. He will also help Su Xue's family resolve the trouble caused by their class background before she is sent to the forestry station. With each successful hunt, he will protect the people he cares about, and, through wind and snow, win the outwardly gentle but inwardly strong girl over and bring her into his life.