[Reborn in a Bygone Era] [Entrepreneurship and Prosperity] [Healing Family Bonds] [Advancing the Nation Through Technology]
When Tang Huanyan opens her eyes again, she is back in 1998, the summer just after her high school entrance exams.
Her second uncle's firecracker shop is just three days away from the blaze that will change the fate of the whole family.
This year, her second uncle hasn't lost everything yet, and her hardworking cousin hasn't been pressured to marry far away.
And Zhou Rushan, the boy who loves basketball and is full of scientific ambitions, hasn't yet missed the college entrance exam because of an accident.
There's still time to change everything.
Tang Huanyan starts with a small business selling notebooks, helping her family find a new way forward. As she spends time with them, she slowly unravels the knot that has trapped her for years.
Then the internet takes off, e-commerce begins to emerge, and one opportunity after another arrives with the changing times. She steadily builds her capital, but never forgets how, years later, the country will find itself constrained by others when it comes to crucial technologies.
So she begins investing in research early, hoping to give those who devote themselves to their work a little more time, and make breakthroughs in key technologies possible sooner.
At last, Zhou Rushan gets the chance to follow the path that an accident once cut short.
At first, she simply wants to nurture talent and help the country retain one more researcher. Later, they go from classmates to partners, slowly becoming an essential part of each other's future.
He pursues his ideals in the lab, while she carves out a place of her own amid the tides of the times.
