In 1978, Lin Wanxing, carrying a worn-out luggage roll, finally returned from the countryside facing the loess to the city where he had been away for many years. Good news? The country has resumed the college entrance examination, the spring breeze of reform and opening up is blowing across the land, and cities are full of vibrant hope. The future is promising! Bad news? Her family is no longer the "big courtyard family" it once was. Both her parents are dead, leaving only a sickly sister waiting for food, and a group of excellent relatives who are eager to eat her alive, just waiting for her to spit out her meager pension. "An educated youth with no education or background still wants to take root in the city? What a dream!" The ridicule of neighbors and the calculations of relatives pierced her spine like a knife. Lin Wanxing sneered. No culture? She taught herself all the high school courses while joining the queue, and even secretly read a lot of "banned" books! No background? In this great era, policy is the biggest background, and opportunities are everywhere! She doesn't go into factories and doesn't take the usual route. While others were still queuing up to buy grain, oil and cloth tickets and eyeing the "short supply" from the supply and marketing cooperative, Lin Wanxing could already smell the changes of the times. She saw the opportunity of the household contract system and the rise of township enterprises. From setting up a stall to sell egg pancakes, to contracting a small workshop to produce the most fashionable "Chenliang shirts", to opening the first private restaurant in the city... Lin Wanxing is down-to-earth and takes one step at a time. Some people ridiculed her for "speculating", while others envied her for "making shady money", but many more people saw the hope of getting rich, led by her.
