In 2026, 38-year-old corporate drone Chen Beichen dies suddenly at his desk after working overtime.
When he opens his eyes again, he is back in 1990.
An 18-year-old body, a shabby mud-brick house, and just 3.7 yuan in his pocket. But he has something new in his mind: the Myriad Phenomena System.
The Eye of Insight lets him spot fakes, identify antiques, and see through people's hearts at a glance.
The skill library offers fighting, law, investment analysis, and more, all instantly learned in exchange for points.
The Time-Space Mall unlocks business secrets from the next thirty years ahead of time.
In his previous life, he suffered for lack of education, missing out on Shenzhen, the stock market, and an entire era.
This time around
He finds a Qianlong imperial kiln piece in a pickle crock and unearths a Ming-dynasty annotated edition at a street stall.
He heads north to the border, trading light-industry goods for military binoculars and multiplying his money fivefold in a month.
He goes south to Shenzhen and makes a fortune wholesaling surplus goods in Huaqiangbei.
In Shanghai, he bets everything on subscription certificates and builds his assets to over a million.
Someone bullies the townspeople? He gathers evidence and tears down their protectors root and branch.
Someone tries to use connections to crush him? His investment analysis is sharper than anyone else's.
This is the story of a reborn man quietly making a fortune in the 1990s.
He isn't invincible thanks to a System; he simply advances one careful step at a time.
His life isn't a cheat code. He just gets another chance, and this time he refuses to lose.
The protagonist is reborn with a system, and there's another character who is also reborn or has a system, and they're fighting against the protagonist. If you like this kind of story, you can check it out.