I opened my eyes and found myself back in the bitter winter of 1962.
As a high school graduate who was "required to go to the countryside," I had my whole family worried sick.
I traded Grandma's gold ring for twenty jin of ration coupons, then turned around and did it.
My father roared, "That's the last thing our family has to keep us alive!"
I answered calmly, "Once I stay in the city, I'll pay you back tenfold."
While others went to the countryside, I joined the neighborhood office.
While others farmed, I wrote proposals.
While others returned to the city only to sit unemployed, I had already been promoted ahead of schedule.
Everyone said I was crazy:
How could a worker's daughter with no connections expect to rise through the ranks in a man's world?
Then the city adopted my reform proposal as a model.
Then the foreign investment project I brought in set the entire development zone abuzz.
Then Zhou Zhengqing, the high-ranking official's son who had always seemed so aloof, asked me with red-rimmed eyes:
"Lin Yue, how much longer are you going to make me wait?"
In this life, I'm not stockpiling goods or chasing wealth.
I will use modern management know-how in this extraordinary era...
to rise from a temporary neighborhood-office worker to the forefront of reform!
