[Tags: Period Setting + Devoted Husband + System + Getting Rich by Spotting Hidden Gems + Building a Powerful Nation Through Technology + Extreme Contrast]
In his previous life, Wang Lei was a compulsive gambler. He drove his beautiful wife to despair until she drank poison, and his three-year-old daughter froze to death in misery.
Carrying 46 years of regret, he is reborn in 1980, on the very day his wife and daughter were driven to the brink of death!
From the start, his house is bare, the rice jar is empty, and the village bully shows up with a pack of awful relatives to break down the door and drag his wife and daughter off to settle his debts.
Just as all hope seems lost, Wang Lei unexpectedly awakens the Rejuvenate Everything System!
[Ding! A broken, discarded alarm clock detected. Spend rejuvenation points to restore it perfectly into a brand-new Shanghai-brand mechanical clock. Sell it for a fortune and bring home a whole basin of braised pork!]
[Ding! A rusty, decommissioned homemade hunting rifle detected. Restore it perfectly into a brand-new double-barreled shotgun. Point it at the village bully's forehead on the spot and scare the hell out of everyone!]
[Ding! A decommissioned 28-inch bicycle detected...]
In an era when even buying pork requires ration coupons and a household worth ten thousand yuan is the stuff of legend, Wang Lei quietly makes a fortune collecting scrap with one hand, while using the other to lavish all the love he owes his darling wife and adorable child!
Awful relatives...
Heartless black-market dealers...
Unscrupulous foreign investors...
Everyone assumes Wang Lei is just a lucky "scrap king" who spoils his wife, until the day he finds a mud-covered old radio at the junkyard.
[Ding! Military-grade wreckage with a special encrypted frequency detected. Start reverse-engineering the blueprints?]
Wang Lei is stunned.
Years later, when Wang Lei has transformed an abandoned tractor factory into the world's leading heavy-industry conglomerate, casually developed domestic lithography machines and high-end chips, and forced the Americans to beg for technology quotas...
Everyone is dumbfounded: You were supposed to collect scrap to support your family, but instead you turned the country into the world's technological superpower?!
