Ordinary World: I Became Sun Shaoping

After modern-day overworked office worker Ruan Xinglang suddenly dies, his soul transmigrates into Ordinary World, where he becomes Sun Shaoping, hauling bricks to survive in Huangyuan in 1976. With memories of the original story and a modern perspective, he refuses to passively accept his fate. Instead, he uses practical wisdom to break through the constraints of an era ruled by work points and grain coupons, determined to rewrite its regrets. In Volume One, "Awakening on the Loess Plateau," he earns trust by applying piece-rate thinking to brick hauling and wins recognition with his knowledge of health and wellness. At the library, he bonds with Xiaoxia over How the Steel Was Tempered, planting the seeds of a promise to protect her. Seizing the opportunity of the 1977 college entrance exams, he prepares with modern methods, helps Shaoan avoid a brick factory crisis, and inspires Lanxiang to dream of pursuing an education. When his acceptance letter from Huangyuan Teachers College arrives, the sunset by the Yan River is beautiful, and Xiaoxia arrives with her own acceptance letter to study history. They confess their feelings and vow to go to Huangyuan together and stand by their ideals: he will protect her from the flood tragedy, and she will be with him as he transforms from a day laborer into a college student. The story carries on the theme that "ordinary lives can be great," but its transmigrator's perspective gives the struggles of ordinary people a more tangible warmth. There is no cheat-powered reversal, only steady progress through the mud and the rewriting of regrets through devotion, until an ordinary life shines with warmth.