Reborn in 1985 in a border town in southern Xinjiang, Lin Jianjun clutches his discharge papers, his eyes filled with burning determination! In his previous life, he watched the veteran brothers who had risked their lives alongside him either die without access to medical care or fall into poverty after being bullied while selling goods on the street. In this life, he vows to help his brothers earn a steady living and make it big!
“Take the narrow gate, walk the broad road.” It is his creed, and the source of his confidence!
He earns his first fortune selling braised snacks at a street stall. Drawing on modern business thinking, he trades polyester fabric for Soviet steel, uses light-industry goods to open up supply channels in Eastern Europe, and seizes every opportunity of the age: border trade, imported goods from Hong Kong, the stock market, and the auto industry!
He gathers disabled scouts and elite military drivers to build a hard-as-nails team of veterans. They guard underground supply lines and clear out thugs and desperadoes, while taking on crooked businessmen and bureaucrats head-on. They steamroll every obstacle in their path!
Su Wanqing, a powerful politician’s daughter, backs him with official documents and clears policy minefields with a single move. Lu Qingyuan, a formidable woman from the military, takes down enemies with her bare hands and provides military support, risking her life to protect him at a critical moment. Shanghai tycoon Shen Ruobing battles him fiercely in business, their relationship swinging between love and rivalry, until she becomes his partner in an overseas empire!
From a street-stall hustler to a titan at the helm of a business empire, he takes on corruption and financial behemoths, and establishes a veterans’ fund so that everyone left behind by the times has a way forward!
Business battles are fought one careful step at a time, underground clashes land blow after brutal blow, and he makes his way in politics, the military, and business alike. Reborn, he intends to lead his brothers to run wild through the 1980s and forge an enduring legend!
