Back to the ’90S: I Made My Fortune Collecting Scrap

[System treasure hunting + antique appraisal + face-slapping feel-good story...] In his previous life, Chen Qing was destitute. He froze and starved to death in a dilapidated house, leaving the world with endless regrets over his shattered family and estranged friends and relatives. Reborn in the opportunity-filled 1990s, he gets a chance to change his fate before tragedy strikes: his parents are still on good terms, and the vicious aunt by marriage who will wreak havoc on the family has yet to marry in. There is still time to set everything right. At the same time, he binds to a divine treasure restoration System that can restore and increase the value of any battered old item. While others find scrap metal, old appliances, and assorted secondhand junk too filthy to go near, Chen Qing sees nothing but wealth. He makes a profit reselling ordinary recyclables, while antiques restored by the System can become worth a thousand times more. Undeterred by his neighbors' mockery, he goes from street to street collecting scrap, saves up to open a recycling depot, and rides the wave of the booming small-goods and secondhand trade. Seizing business opportunities to amass wealth at a breakneck pace, he also protects his family and keeps them safe, averts every disaster from his previous life, and puts troublesome relatives in their place. From a poor kid everyone looked down on, he rises with the tide to build a vast business empire, keep his loved ones safe and prosperous, turn his tragic fate around completely, and become one of the most envied success stories of the 1990s.