Buddy, It’s 1978

In 2026, Lin Dachui was struck by a tower crane. When he woke up, he found himself on the streets of Guangzhou in 1978.

He had two yuan in his pocket, nothing on but a pair of shorts, and a sharp-tongued AI living in his head.

“Host, you should donate that IQ to a research institute.”

“Buddy, what’s the best way to make money in 1978?”

“Eggs. Buy them for twenty cents, sell them for fifty.”

Three months later, he was Guangzhou’s biggest egg wholesaler.

Three years later, he was among Shenzhen’s first ten-thousand-yuan households.

Forty-three years later, his business empire was valued at hundreds of billions.

This is the story of a construction worker who rises from a street stall to an empire with the help of a sharp-tongued AI.