In 1984, nineteen-year-old Chen Tiesheng dropped out of school.
His father was hospitalized with a cerebral hemorrhage. The operation cost 1,200 yuan, so Chen signed away his freedom and became a loan shark's "puppet."
Everyone said, "That kid's finished."
But he knew how to fix things.
Radios, lighters, imported appliances... He could repair what others couldn't.
A piezoelectric ceramic component inside a Ronson lighter showed him the technological bottleneck that let Japan hold the industry hostage.
"Some things, you only know once you've done them."
From setting up a stall on the street to breaking monopolies, from a boy buried in debt to a business magnate.
Over the forty years of Reform and Opening Up, he seized every turning point of the times:
The dual-track pricing system, stock subscription certificates, state-owned enterprise reform, the real estate boom, joining the WTO...
The boy who was once trampled into the mud spent forty years doggedly pursuing one goal: mastering and surpassing the electronic components monopolized by Japanese giants, and climbing step by step to the top of the industry.
**Period novel + entrepreneurial success + satisfying comeback**
**Time span: 1984-2025**
**The male lead, Chen Tiesheng, goes from nineteen to retirement at sixty.**
I've read Chapter 50, and it's getting better and better from now on, keep up the good work
I didn't think it looked good at first, but it got better as I went on.