[Period Setting + System + Raising a Child + Getting Rich + Model Worker + Women Helping Women]
In her previous life, Lin Sufen’s life ended in tragedy. Her daughter died young of an illness, her husband sank into grief, and Lin Sufen closed her eyes overwhelmed by endless regret.
When she opened them again, she had somehow returned to the stormy night of 1983!
Her four-year-old daughter lay on a hospital bed, burning with a fever and close to death, while Lin Sufen didn’t have a single mao to her name.
[Ding! Strong goodwill detected. The Value Sight System has been activated!]
[Imported agricultural machinery parts being sold as scrap metal: core technology, priceless!]
[Waste-paper box beneath the supply-and-marketing cooperative counter: contains a handwritten copy of a Qing Dynasty medical text, worth 300 yuan!]
Starting out in half a room in a leaky apartment block, Lin Sufen took her sweet little daughter by the hand, grabbed the other hand of her taciturn factory-worker husband, who always stood up for his family, and stepped into the scrap-recycling business everyone looked down on.
She didn’t just make herself rich. She led laid-off women from the whole neighborhood in sewing fabric flowers, opening a processing plant, and building a “Renewable Resources Technical School.”
Five years later, as Lin Sufen walked into the Great Hall of the People with a big red flower pinned to her chest,
foreign media were stunned. “This woman, who monopolized rare-earth recycling nationwide and made the United Nations take notice, was a scrap collector just five years ago?”
Lin Sufen smiled calmly. “In my eyes, nothing is waste. Scrap is treasure in the wrong place, and so are people.”
