1980s: Changing My Fate to Become the Richest

Blurb:

After spending three sleepless nights fixing bugs, Zhao Yizhi and her coworkers were hungrily slurping instant noodles in the office. As they opened a second cup of braised beef noodles, a news report about Ji Bai, the richest man in the city, suddenly started playing on a coworker's phone.

Looking at the richest man on the screen, leaning on a cane with gray already showing at his temples, Zhao Yizhi glanced at the instant noodles in her hand and sighed to her coworker, "Someone as rich as him must have authentic braised beef for a midnight snack, right?"

"Of course! He must eat steak every meal, and it has to be Michelin-starred," her coworker joked between noisy mouthfuls.

"How wonderful." Zhao Yizhi immediately felt envious. She hadn't even eaten at a Michelin-starred restaurant, let alone tried Western food!

"But I heard he had a pretty rough life when he was young. His fiancee not only dumped him and took all his money, someone also crippled one of his legs, and I think his family died in some kind of accident..."

Zhao Yizhi wanted to hear more gossip, but her coworker's voice seemed to drift farther and farther away. She closed her eyes in a daze, and when she opened them again, she seemed to be sitting in a restaurant.

She looked down at her white blouse and bell-bottom pants, the floral tablecloth in front of her, and a steak that hadn't been touched. Suddenly, she heard a woman's voice from the next table, dripping with disdain: "Ji Bai, how can you not even know how to eat Western food? Can you stop making noise when you cut your steak? You're so embarrassing!"

Hearing that familiar name, Zhao Yizhi instinctively turned her head, then widened her eyes. Wasn't that the richest man in their city?

Only this Ji Bai looked twenty or thirty years younger than the man she'd seen on TV...

Theme: Help others, bring joy to yourself.