Period: I Ran Into the Gorgeous Gong from the Start

[A period novel, not about a literary genius. The protagonist is intent on getting ahead.] A deputy general manager at a company lost his promising future after taking the fall for a subordinate. His soul traveled back to the late 1970s, landing in the body of a country boy who scraped a living from the soil. His first step forward was to change his fate as a dirt-poor farmer, starting by heading to Shanghai to work as a translator. Fresh off the train, he took shelter from the rain and happened to meet Gong Xue, who had come back from the capital to visit family in Shanghai. And so the story begins...