Shen Zhou lived a miserable life in his previous one.
He earned a PhD in history from Dongjiang University and stayed on as a lecturer. Seventeen years later, he still hadn't made associate professor, and students called him “Professor Forever” behind his back.
At fifty, lying in a hospital bed, he watched Chen Liheng's triumphant face on the news and closed his eyes.
Then he opened them again.
June 2008. His doctoral defense. He was twenty-eight.
The doctoral service program position he'd turned down in his previous life still had two months before applications closed. The four-trillion-yuan stimulus he'd missed was still five months away from being announced. Chen Liheng, who had stepped over him to climb the ladder in his previous life, was sitting beside him, his palms sweating with nerves over his thesis defense.
This time, Shen Zhou didn't turn off his phone and hide in his dorm.
No System, no status screen, no cheat power. All he had was the memory of living one life already, and a way with words that could make anything he wrote ring true.
From deputy county magistrate to county Party secretary, from a poor county to the provincial capital, from being dismissed as “someone here to pad his résumé” to making everyone fall silent.
No cheats, no brainless decisions, no womanizing. He simply wanted to finish the road he hadn't been able to walk to the end in his previous life.
Maintain quality, stable updates, and robust content. I just have a question, will my personality in my previous life really not affect my future life after rebirth?