At thirty-eight, he had been unemployed for six months. He’d sent out a thousand resumes, and not one had gotten a response.
His wife had divorced him, and the house had gone to her. He moved into a rental in an urban village, surrounded by instant noodle containers and empty liquor bottles.
After a night of heavy drinking, Lin Yan woke up in 2009, at the post-college-entrance-exam class reunion dinner.
His high school girlfriend, who had cheated on him just after the previous life’s school year began, was holding a glass and smugly mapping out their future together.
Lin Yan raised his glass and dumped her in front of the whole class.
He even let slip the name of the guy she’d cheat with once school started. Her face went deathly pale, and she confessed on the spot.
With the next fifteen years of memories in his head, he knows which homes will increase in value eightfold in 2009, which industries will take off, and which stock market crashes can be shorted...
This time, he won’t be a step behind.
(He also has a secret buried in his heart: in his previous life, a girl jumped from a rooftop. In this life, there’s still time to save her.)
