If you had one chance to restart in 2004 and live the next twenty years all over again, which opportunities would you seize?
In his previous life, Lin Chen was manipulated by Zhang Yang until his family was ruined. His parents worked hard all their lives, only to end up sick and suffering. His business ventures were repeatedly sabotaged, and he ultimately died alone in a run-down rental apartment.
He is reborn in his high school classroom, before any of those tragedies have happened.
First, protect his family and turn down his relatives’ demolition-compensation scam. Next, seize the early boom in online shopping and earn his first startup capital with MP3 players.
He and Gu Nian find happiness together. She heads overseas for further studies, and they support each other across the time difference.
He brings together ordinary people like Zhao Lei, Chu Chu, and Meng Yao to build an entrepreneurial alliance. Yiwu suppliers, Hangzhou warehouses, and branches in six cities all come together one by one.
Zhang Yang’s underhanded tactics come one after another: from campus bets and ambushes off school grounds to poaching a business partner, flooding the market with cheap knockoffs, and publicly smearing Lin Chen’s patents at a competition. Every confrontation becomes a tug-of-war with fate.
There’s no mindless overnight fortune. Every sale, every shipment, and every business battle reflects the realities of the 2004–2005 internet landscape.
The entire novel is a complete twenty-year life epic from 2004 to 2024:
The struggle through senior year, topping the college entrance exams, studying at Zhejiang University, starting a campus business, expanding a brand, branching into ringback tones and domain names, building offline chains, charity work for veterans, expanding overseas, and finally settling into middle age.
This isn’t a fast-food power fantasy with face-slapping every three chapters. Instead, it slowly unfolds the youth, struggles, comeback, and warmth of an entire generation.
Are you willing to follow Lin Chen and live these twenty years from the beginning?
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I have always felt that the protagonist is too honest and always suffers hidden consequences for following the rules. Chapter 67 The turning point is here! With the heart of a Bodhisattva, you can use thunderous methods and no longer tolerate blindly. I want to see how Zhang Yang and his son's methods will be dismantled next, and I look forward to the subsequent business war showdown.
After reading one chapter, I still want to read the next one. It's well written! 👍👍👍