[1980s Period] [No System] [Strong Female Lead] [Ensemble Cast] [Reborn] [The Tide of the Times] [Foresight] [Building Wealth] [Business Wars in the Middle and Later Stages] [The Male Lead Has Little Presence Later On]
Money gives you courage, ruthlessness is the backbone, and a sweet tongue will take you far in life.
In her past life, Wen Yan was swindled out of everything by her paternal uncle, who took the old house her parents had left behind. She wandered for fifty years.
She washed dishes, slept in train stations, and was driven away by people. Like duckweed, she drifted wherever life took her.
She died without ever saving enough for a roof of her own.
Reborn in Shenzhen in 1980, on the morning her uncle's family smashed down her door,
Wen Yan stood covered in kerosene and held the blade of an axe to her uncle's throat.
"Let's die together."
With axe and fire, she forced out two thousand yuan.
Starting as a street vendor selling pork trotter rice, she made the aroma of her pot of braising broth spread across Shenzhen's construction sites.
Her big ladle scooped up the springtime and ambition of the 1980s.
She set up stalls, leased shops, hired workers, and expanded.
From a street vendor to a hundred-billion-yuan empire, from pork trotter rice to monopolizing a nation's lifeline, from a little orphan to a queen of the business world.
Time magazine praised her: "Her abilities are astonishing."
The Sakura Cabinet said: "She took ten years from us."
The Nanyang prime minister said: "It is our greatest good fortune to work with Ms. Wen."
Wen Yan always believed: money should be earned honestly, people should live with their heads held high, and in the end, only you can walk your own path, one step at a time.
