Dying alone in a hospital bed from end-stage lung cancer, Lu Chen opened his eyes and found himself back in the twelfth lunar month of 1978.
The earthen house was drafty, the grain sack was nearly empty, and his family was so hungry they had grown pale and gaunt.
In his previous life, he was a good-for-nothing until the day he died, unable even to protect his family.
This time, he clenched his fists and started in the hills behind the village:
he would gather medicinal herbs, save money, and seize the moment, leading his whole family beyond their life as farmers.
Amid the surging tide of the 1980s, he would make everyone look up to him!
