A Corporate Drone Gets a Second Youth

Zhang Fan, an overworked corporate drudge, collapsed at his desk after working late into the night.

When he opened his eyes again, he was back in the year 2000.

He was ten years old, small and skinny, with dark skin and a picky appetite. The scar from being scalded by boiling water had yet to appear on his face.

He was the family's hope, and also its least promising child. His eldest sister was about to drop out of school to work, his third sister did her homework with a pen refill, and his father had to swallow his pride and borrow money just to scrape together a few hundred yuan for tuition. As for Zhang Fan himself, in his previous life he never grew taller than 165 centimeters, had a scar on his face, failed one blind date after another, and eventually worked himself to death in front of a keyboard.

This time, he wasn't going to make the same mistakes again.

At ten, he went into the mountains, dug up an old wild ginseng root, and sold it for over ten thousand yuan, so his eldest sister wouldn't have to drop out.

He wrote game cheats and made a year's wages in a week.

He wrote a novel that exploded across the internet at 600,000 words, with royalties climbing by the day.

He sold the rights to his songs for a share of the proceeds instead of a buyout, earning from a single song for more than a decade.

He played the stock market, buying coal mine and tech stocks, until his account balance reached tens of millions...