Reborn in 1982: I Drove Out the Ungrateful Wolf and Led My Wife and Children to a Better Life

[Period Setting + Reborn + Family Life + Reckoning with Ungrateful Children + Reversing His Fate in Old Age + Rural Enterprise + Building Wealth]

In 2026, eighty-six-year-old Chen Jianguo lies paralyzed in bed, waiting to die.

In his previous life, he was a selfless workhorse who gave everything for his family. He sold grain to build his eldest son a house, sold pigs to help his second son pay for a bride, and saved his eldest daughter’s tuition to help his son get married. When his youngest daughter was tricked into an abusive marriage, he couldn’t protect her. His wife was worked to death at the stove at just fifty-eight.

But when floodwaters swept into the village, not one of his five children came back to save him.

He listened as the water rose over the edge of his bed, over his chest, and finally over his last breath.

When he opened his eyes again, it was 1982. He was forty-two, strong and healthy. His children had yet to grow into ungrateful ingrates, the contracted farmland had just been allocated, and he knew exactly what the next forty-four years had in store.

His eldest son’s wife cries poverty and asks for money? He lays out the ledger and calculates every last cent of six months’ living expenses.

His second son steals a pig to pay for a bride? He gets the money back for the pig and splits the household on the spot.

Anyone dares touch his daughter’s tuition? He’ll break their legs.

This time, there’ll be no mooching off the old man.

Come try to scheme against him, and see who outsmarts whom.

He’ll hold on to every penny, raise fish, farm the land, and build a factory, then move with his wife and the children who treat him well from their mud-brick house into a little home in the county seat.

This time, he’ll live only for himself and the people who love him.