In his previous life, he was a senior architecture engineer at Zhongxin Micro, one of China’s top semiconductor companies. After fifteen years in the chip industry, he was one of the few leading experts in the country who understood 2nm chip architecture inside and out. But he was reserved and poor at office politics. A colleague stole his research, his boss stabbed him in the back and laid him off, his mother fell seriously ill, and his wife took the money and divorced him. At thirty-five, he died of a heart attack in a rented room barely ten square meters wide, clutching unfinished chip blueprints. Even as he died, he was listening to news about foreign chip companies imposing technological restrictions on China.
Reborn on the very day he was laid off in 2023, he carries with him the complete chip technology roadmap for the next three years, strategies for navigating global patent barriers, and the key breakthroughs needed across the entire semiconductor supply chain. His personality changes completely: he becomes decisive, refuses to waste energy on needless worry or endure injustice, and hits back on the spot. His goal shifts from “getting a promotion and a raise” to “breaking foreign technological monopolies and building Chinese chips that are fully independent and controllable.” His intelligence stays sharp throughout. He is neither a pushover nor blinded by romance, and he has both principles and vision. He can deliver satisfying face-slapping to villains while also shouldering responsibility for the industry.
