Qi Tongwei is reborn on the school field where he once knelt to propose. The roses are in his hands, Liang Lu is waiting, and the whole school is watching.
In his previous life, that one kneel brought him twenty years of wealth, but also a bullet at Lone Eagle Ridge.
"Teacher Liang," he says, standing up and tossing the flowers into the trash, "you're ten years older than me. You don't need a son, and you certainly don't need a dog."
As Liang Lu screams, he turns and walks away. In this life, he will stand tall and tear a hole in the sky.
He uses memories of the future to seize the era's opportunities, and modern thinking to crush the 1990s. Borderland black-market gold, Hainan property speculation, state-owned enterprise reform, playing both sides of the law...
He becomes the youngest anti-drug hero, and the most discreet godfather of the black economy.
Gao Xiaoqin is the front he has groomed, Hou Liangping is the hunter he toys with, and the Zhao family is a shield he is always ready to discard.
Then, on the eve of the inspection team arriving in 2017, he sits in his Public Security Department office, facing three choices:
Destroy himself, go down fighting, or swallow triple the dose of heart medication and return to the school field in 1988 to kneel once more.
"I knelt this time. But next time, I'll kneel differently."
The meaning of the question is very novel and interesting.