Since 1979, I've Been Riding the Tide of the Times

The protagonist is weak; anyone with a bit of power can easily manipulate him. If I were him, with my first pot of gold, I would have already headed to a big city like Shanghai. The business environment in places like Northeast China is too poor. If you don't leave yourself a way out, sooner or later your money will belong to someone else.

The historical setting and logic are generally sound, and the writing is good with well-developed characters. However, the business aspects are terribly underdeveloped later on. In 1992, an investment of several million yuan was made to produce a learning machine, with five million yuan spent on advertising during prime time on CCTV. In the end, the profit was less than twenty million yuan!

A major local taxpayer was actually extorted by a thug. Because he was worried about his family and didn't want to cause a conflict, he would damage the thug's motorcycle when he went out. But he didn't care about his elderly parents when he went out.

Wang Weidong does everything himself; it must be exhausting. Last time he climbed a wall to catch a Tibetan mastiff, this time he threatened players at a hotel. A billionaire living like this…

A relatively realistic reincarnation novel set in the 1970s, without any special abilities, and the protagonist is disliked by his parents, somewhat like Zhou Bingkun in "The World," whose father comes over to beat him up for no reason, creating an awkward drama of ethical entanglements. That's all I've gleaned so far; I'm off to read some multiverse novels.

Dear author, this chapter's scope is a bit narrow. Two billionaires personally coming to collect a debt of a few hundred thousand yuan is already outrageous enough. But then they resort to threats and have their bodyguards steal a Tibetan Mastiff at the end??? I hope you'll revise this chapter. Big bosses don't do business like this. A wise person avoids dangerous situations.

The latest chapters are really confusing. Why even mention Zhao Na? She's untouchable, unmanageable—does she think we're still in the Soviet Union? You can't bring her down, yet you provoke her; this isn't how you advance the plot. And you even try to persuade her? This kind of profit can't possibly change her mind. Cutting off someone's livelihood is like killing their parents; the protagonist is killing her parents right now. 😅

This book has a sense of alienation. The protagonist is reborn, but the author deliberately downplays the rebirth. The protagonist is not shown to have a clear goal that people in today's world (three girlfriends, Microsoft or Apple). The protagonist is more like a tool, leading readers to appreciate the glory and storms on the bumpy road that the entrepreneur went through back then.

I don't know why they wrote about Zhao Na and even tried to persuade her. What's the difference between this and persuading someone with narcotics to quit? They might as well have found a reporter to investigate, publish the story, and send her to jail. What the hell? Will the author give her money back later and sponsor her? Does the protagonist fall in love with her?

This is the best urban novel I've read recently; I feel like it's going to be a hit.