[Period] [Reborn] [The 1980s] [Feel-good revenge] [Ensemble cast, lightly] [Family and neighborhood life] [Past and present lives] [Rags-to-riches] [Taking down the worst of the worst]
A satisfying takedown of the worst of the worst, getting rich through business, career advancement, a happy love life, and everyday life as a Beijing rascal.
Gao Dashan, a seventy-two-year-old neighborhood rascal from old Beijing, only realized on his deathbed that he’d been the biggest fool of all. His remarried sister-in-law poisoned him to death. He raised her deadbeat husband’s son for forty years, had his two courtyard houses swallowed up, and watched his own children deliberately spoiled until they turned against him. Everything he’d earned in a lifetime ended up benefiting someone else. He died with bitter regret.
When he opened his eyes again, he was back in 1980. His mother-in-law was throwing a tantrum at the entrance to the crowded courtyard, demanding that he marry his sister-in-law and hand over his compensation money.
This time, Gao Dashan refused to be guilt-tripped and set about plotting a revenge scheme that would pit his enemies against one another.
He gave his sister-in-law a five-hundred-yuan dowry so she could elope, binding the parasitic Zhang family tightly to the deadbeat Chen family. He watched the families go from in-laws to bitter enemies, tearing each other apart. He got his revenge for his previous life with a smile.
He revived his five-star head chef skills, opened a braised-food shop and a restaurant, and rode the wave of reform and opening up. He snapped up courtyard houses and expanded his restaurant empire, becoming a legend in Beijing’s food scene. He married the gentle, capable Su Naying, had his children gathered around him, and repaired his family ties, transforming from a neighborhood rascal into a business tycoon everyone envied.
This is a good book, highly recommended, very immersive, and I look forward to finishing it.
The male protagonist is sinister and cruel, repaying injustice with injustice, repaying kindness with kindness, and is not forceful in his revenge. He uses his brain before doing things and puts his own interests first. He specializes in killing people with borrowed knives and relieves his anger without being suspended. The plot is not bald, the era setting is not unrealistic, and the design of Golden Finger is reasonable. It basically restores the price of goods, workplace ecology, and alley rules in the 1980s.
It's nice to watch, with detailed descriptions, offbeat characters, and light and odd angles, making it suitable to follow.
This book is really good, especially the description of Lu Bu's fight for Diao Chan and Sun Wukong. Hundreds of people gathered together in the battle, but Xue Baochai was indeed too strong. If Nuoshou hadn't used an outer ring + Noxian guillotine, this wave of M4 six-fold strafing would have killed him. But I prefer what Zhuge Liang said to the 108 monkeys in Huaguo Mountain: "Young man, you are proud, don't show off in front of your brother Liang." It shows Zhuge Liang's indignation at the monkey who knocked him to death with three sticks. Luffy spent an entire episode fighting waves and rays for Rem and Ultraman. But Pikachu's skin is indeed too thick. If Yasuo hadn't blocked the 100,000 volts with a wind wall, and then followed it with a steel-cutting flash, this wave of turtle Qigong would have been interrupted. But I care more about Lin Daiyu's line to the Avengers: "Brother Baoyu, are these weirdos wearing leather jackets here to rob the Grand View Garden?" It shows that Lin Daiyu and Iron Man are flying in the sky and unable to come down. All in all, this book has an interesting plot, a clear system, and many foreshadowings. The fighting scenes are like being there.
For now, the writing is pretty good. If the writing is not good in the future, it will be downgraded. If the writing is good, I will give it five stars.
A good character is portrayed in detail and in detail
Very interesting novel platform
Looks great, highly recommended.
So far so good, watchable.
The writing is good, but what about Chapter 18?