At 40, Lu Yuanzhou is laid off. When he wakes, he's back in the summer after his final year of high school in 2010.
That year, the iPhone 4 had just launched, Android had yet to take off, and Bitcoin cost eight cents apiece.
That year, Meituan had just been founded, WeChat didn't exist yet, and the sharing economy wasn't even a concept.
That year, homes in Nancheng cost 3,600 yuan per square meter, while Pudong in Shanghai was still one giant construction site.
With a business roadmap covering the next fifteen years in hand, all he wants is to quietly make a fortune:
food delivery on campus, group-buying wars, mobile apps, ride-sharing, e-commerce for lower-tier markets…
He knows the answer to every new trend before it arrives.
This time, he can see the future.
He tells himself: just make money, no romance.
But fate has two people in store for him:
One is the childhood sweetheart and dream girl he missed in his previous life.
She'll never admit it out loud, but she's already accepted it in her heart.
“Lu Yuanzhou, remember this: you're the one who doesn't want me.”
The other is a precious girl he never helped in his previous life.
She traveled thirty hours in a hard-seat train from the mountains of Guizhou to enroll,
with eyes as clear as a mountain spring.
“Grandma said that if someone helps you, you have to repay them.”
He thinks he's making a grand move in the business world,
without realizing the two girls have already covered the board with their own marks.
The day the dream girl and the precious girl discover each other's existence,
Lu Yuanzhou finally understands: the hardest thing to calculate in this life isn't money.
