1988: A Breakfast Stall to Feed the Family

At the moment he died in a car accident, Lin Weidong thought it was all over.

When he opened his eyes again, the calendar read: the seventeenth day of the twelfth lunar month, 1988.

His wife was burning with fever and babbling. His five-year-old daughter was crying from hunger. He had only two yuan and thirty cents in his pocket.

Relatives came demanding repayment, and his father-in-law threatened to take his daughter away.

After spending his whole previous life as a pushover, Lin Weidong wasn't going to accept it this time.

Ding!

[Imperial Banquet Cuisine System activated!]

[The Host is in extreme poverty. Beginner's gift pack awarded: Golden Tofu Pudding Recipe x1]

A single tofu-pudding cart helped him build the hottest breakfast stall on the south side of town.

Workers lined up for his tofu pudding, factory directors came in person to buy his jianbing, and his secret-recipe buns filled the whole street with their aroma.

The System told him: the more he earns, the more incredible the recipes he unlocks.

Earn 500 a month to unlock a lost braised-food recipe;

Earn 2,000 a month to unlock business-management talent;

Earn 10,000 a month to unlock a secret recipe for an imperial-banquet main course...

Everyone said a laid-off factory worker like him was disgracing himself by setting up a stall.

Until he bought his first shop.

Until he opened his first chain restaurant.

Until he stood before the people who had once looked down on him and said calmly:

"Running a stall really doesn't get you anywhere. So now, I'm opening a chain."

This is the story of a man who started with two yuan and thirty cents, using his own two hands to support a family, build up a street, and transform a city.