Reborn in 2008: Using Technology to Reform Exploitative Industries

Reborn in 2008: Saving the Nation Through Technology, Starting by Reforming Sweatshop Industries

In 2025, 45-year-old Su Zhe dies suddenly in a rideshare car, earning just 6.6 yuan an hour. When he opens his eyes again, he's back in 2008, 28 years old, still an assembly-line worker at the Binjin Electronics Factory.

With memories of the future, Su Zhe sets out to turn his life around. He makes his first fortune by buying stocks at rock bottom and winning the lottery, but donates most of it to Wenchuan. He knows all too well that simply making money cannot save the man he once was, trapped by algorithms.

In a basement in Shanghai, he meets a future tech genius. During his research, he witnesses the blood, sweat, and tears of delivery workers. From building a cloud computing business to secure lasting cash flow, to investing in the three essential livelihood industries of food delivery, transportation, and package delivery, Su Zhe wields capital as a blade and raises the banner of "fair algorithms." Before the giants can launch their cash-burning wars, he hopes to establish new business rules that treat workers fairly.

But his ambitions don't end there. After amassing a hundred billion in wealth, Su Zhe turns his attention to the toughest challenge of all: chips. He will use all the capital, connections, and foresight he's accumulated since being reborn to break the technological chains and embark on a long journey from business revenge to saving the nation through technology.

This is the passionate journey of an ordinary man reborn, who spends twenty years reforming sweatshop industries and tackling core technologies, rewriting his own fate while forging a sword for his country.