[1970s setting | reborn and rising against the odds | sign-in System | building wealth | grassroots success | commune and brigade enterprise | multiple female leads | mindless power fantasy]
Lu Cheng is reborn in 1975 as a poor orphan with neither father nor mother in the Qingshan Production Brigade.
The moment he opens his eyes, the brigade leader’s son shows up to extort him, demanding one yuan and five jiao. Then he’s punished by being sent to haul the entire brigade’s filthiest waste water?
[Ding! Daily sign-in System activated!]
His first sign-in unlocks basic carpentry skills. He casually fixes a broken-legged bench and gets out of the punishment.
While others toil in the fields all day for six work points,
Lu Cheng uses sign-ins to power his way ahead:
He masters Bajiquan and takes down four thugs single-handedly. No one dares come looking for trouble again.
He develops composite boards, pressing scrap wood and sawdust into high-quality panels and cutting costs by two-thirds.
He unlocks primitive chemical techniques. Someone cuts off his supply of raw materials? The mountains are full of treasures, from straw to wood ash!
Starting out as a carpenter who fixes hoe handles, he makes furniture, opens a processing plant, and wins designated supply contracts from the provincial Light Industry Bureau.
He turns the production brigade’s ramshackle mill into a model for commune and brigade enterprises across the province.
The brigade leader and his son, who had been stealing grain rations, end up in prison. The state-owned factory section chief who tried to steal his formula is disgraced.
Once an orphan anyone could bully, he is now Deputy Brigade Leader Lu, respected by everyone.
A brick-and-tile house rises, food and meat coupons fill his pockets, and a kind educated youth stays by his side.
By the time he realizes it, he has become the richest man in the entire commune, with no one else even close!
