Forced to Sell My Daughter from the Start? The Nation's Master Craftsman Leaves with His Wife and Nothing Else

[Rebirth in an earlier era + devoted husband + master of industry + technological superiority + making up for past regrets + hard-core manufacturing]

In his previous life, Lu Yuan was a titan of industry, a pillar of the nation, worth tens of billions.

Yet as he lay dying, he refused all attempts to save him. Clutching a faded, cheap butterfly hair clip, he died full of regret.

His mind was filled with that snowy winter night in 1982, when his daughter died of a high fever and his despairing wife leaped into the bone-chilling river.

He spent his whole life trying to atone. He earned a fortune, but none of it could bring back a steaming bowl of cornmeal porridge or the smiles of his wife and daughter.

He closed his eyes, suffocating with regret. When he opened them again...

He heard his daughter’s weak cries, along with his cruel mother-in-law’s vicious curses as she pressured his wife to sell the girl for a bride price!

In a dilapidated cowshed with drafts whistling through it, his wife wore a thin, tattered padded jacket and held their feverish daughter tightly beneath her.

A rusty pair of scissors was hidden in her frozen hand. Like a desperate she-wolf, she watched him warily...