Back to Nineteen, This Time I’ll Beat Everyone

At 19, weighing 180 pounds and covered in acne, Song Fengning is driven to the brink by campus bullying. After dying at 35 during a late-night overtime shift, she opens her eyes and finds herself back in the year her nightmare began.

In her previous life, she was timid, poor, and invisible. Mocked as an ugly, fat country bumpkin and swindled out of her savings by a scumbag, she eventually became a shadow no one remembered. This time, a 35-year-old soul sneers inside her 19-year-old body: To hell with love, to hell with groveling. All I want in this life is money, lots and lots of money, and to win back every bit of my dignity.

From the start, she “accidentally” collides with Li Li, the aloof campus heartthrob everyone admires. Her public “confession” intimidates her bullies and unexpectedly catches his attention.

From café waitress to founder of a campus e-commerce business, from an unpopular major in animal science to a rising star in the finance department, Song Fengning draws on the drive she forged in her previous life to assemble a “weirdo dream team”: tech genius Shen Muyan, design prodigy Su Qingyue, traffic king Lu Zeyu, sweet and guileless Jiang Yicheng... and Li Li, who seems to live above the clouds yet keeps making exceptions for her.

On the road to entrepreneurship, malicious reports, price wars, and smear campaigns come one after another. On the road to love, a devoted younger guy’s protection and an aloof heartthrob’s attention intertwine with a fiercely matched attraction and the pressure of a family-arranged marriage. All she wants is to focus on making money, building her career, and studying.

This is a story of a comeback rising from the ruins, and a passionate journey of self-reinvention, breaking through class barriers, and two people finding their way to each other.