The 1970s: You Left Me for the City, Became a Tycoon, and Now You Regret It

In his previous life, Lin Chuan was the most pathetic doormat in the entire courtyard.

For his childhood sweetheart, Meng Xiaoqin, he meekly gave up the only chance his parents had secured for him to return to the city, staying behind in the countryside to undergo reform instead.

In return, Meng Xiaoqin went back to the city, married the deputy factory director's son, and spread rumors all over the courtyard: "Lin Chuan is lazy and good-for-nothing. He deserves to rot in the countryside!"

Despairing, his former self jumped into a river, only for modern-day tycoon Lin Chuan to transmigrate into his body.

On the eve of an era of earth-shaking change, when fortunes were waiting to be made everywhere, what did one lousy factory job matter?

Using modern technology, Lin Chuan made sure the educated youths in his rural commune had meat at every meal. He also met Zhu Lin, who had come to the countryside to perform.

The following year, news arrived that the national college entrance exam had been reinstated. While all the educated youths scrambled to find study materials, Lin Chuan was already heading to the exam hall, brimming with confidence.

In the end, Lin Chuan stunned everyone by placing third nationwide. Admissions teams from top universities rushed to the village that very night to recruit him!

A few years later, as the tide of a new era surged in, he took charge of cutting-edge technology with one hand and seized the era's opportunities with the other, rising from a cramped courtyard in the capital to become a global business titan!

What made talented young men across the country even more envious and crazed was that Zhu Lin, a peerless beauty hailed as the fairest woman alive, had seen all the world's splendors, yet was content to be the gentle, virtuous wife at his side.

Years later.

Meng Xiaoqin, who was beaten and humiliated in a dilapidated apartment block over a few pennies for vegetables, happened to see Lin Chuan on television, returning to invest as an international business titan.

At his side stood the peerless Zhu Lin. Behind him lay wealth and power so immense that Meng Xiaoqin could never hope to reach them.

Clutching her hair, Meng Xiaoqin broke down sobbing: "The one who should have been standing beside him back then... should have been me!"