In my previous life, I was the biggest loser in all of Qingshi Town: 45 years old, unemployed, divorced, and in debt. Even my daughter’s 480-yuan school fee was arranged by going around me and asking her mother.
It wasn’t that I never had a chance. In the 1990s, street vendors, traders, and contractors all made fortunes. I was the only one who backed out every time.
I woke up in September 2, 1991, back in the body of a ten-year-old third grader. I recognized every character in the textbooks, and my deskmate was still singing, “The sun shines bright in the sky.”
In my previous life, I copied answers for years, yet never got a single one of life’s big questions right. This time, I know all the answers: which industries will make money and when, and how every successful person made their fortune. I know it all.
This time, I won’t back down. Starting with the first piece of scrap metal I pick up, I’ll reclaim, bit by bit, all the dignity I lost in my previous life.
I, Tu Jianjun, will show everyone in Qingshi Town that the Tu family’s fortunes turned around on this day in 1991. Come witness a child’s rise to success.
