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At 58, Lin Weidong had spent his whole life building a successful construction-materials business, yet one regret still haunted him: his childhood fiancée, Su Xiaoqing, had died young in an accident, becoming an obsession he could never lay to rest. On a stormy night, as he returned to his hometown to visit her grave, he was reborn in a northern village in 1982, just six days before Su Xiaoqing would meet with disaster while buying fabric for her wedding dress.
He risked everything to stop the young woman from rushing to her death. After surviving the ordeal, they pledged their lives to each other on a path between the fields, and he finally put right the greatest regret of his previous life. Seizing the opportunities brought by reform and opening up, he started by traveling from village to village to buy local goods and sell them at market stalls. Then he opened a clothing workshop, expanded into home appliances and building materials, and ventured into the provincial capital's business world. At every step, he caught the wave of opportunity, rising through hard work from a village peddler to the head of an industrial enterprise.
Together, the couple weathered buying frenzies, economic readjustments, and financial crises. They went from a humble earthen house to a vast fortune, always devoted to one another and unwavering in their love. They witnessed the simple kindness of everyday life in a changing era and the shifting loyalties of the business world. After a lifetime of ups and downs, they finally had children gathered around them and grew old together, fulfilling the hopes they had carried across two lifetimes.
