Before he was reborn, Xu Nanzhou was a worker at a bankrupt factory somewhere in Northeast China. He spent his whole life as a meek nobody. His wife ran off with another man, and his son looked down on him for being useless. On the last day of the twelfth lunar month in 2017, Xu Nanzhou was playing cards with Liu Tiejun, the factory manager’s brother-in-law, when he accidentally caught him cheating. As they argued, Xu Nanzhou hit his head on the corner of the table and passed out. When he woke up, he discovered he had been reborn, back in 1998, on the day the factory announced its first round of layoffs. Since I’ve been reborn, what the hell have I got to be afraid of?
Xu Nanzhou’s personality: a typical rough-and-ready Northeastern man, quick with a joke, talkative, and loyal. He’s a little crafty and likes to show off. After being reborn, he has the advantage of knowing what’s to come, yet his Northeastern “straightforwardness” keeps landing him in awkward situations. His motto is: “I can do anything well, I just tend to get things mixed up.”
