Reborn in the 1980s: I Reach the Top Through Cause and Effect

The rusted clock hands spun backward to 1980. Lin Mo opened his eyes in a hospital room steeped in the mingled smells of disinfectant and mold.

In his previous life, he scraped by on whatever he could scavenge.

Reborn into this life, he unexpectedly awakened the “Causal Thread” System. Red represented misfortune, gold represented opportunity, blue represented technology, purple represented power, and gray represented danger. In his eyes, they intertwined into a complex web of cause and effect.

Red threads of death coiled around his dying younger brother, while a faint golden thread stretched from the expired penicillin in the corner of the pharmacy.

Clutching the barefoot doctor’s handbook his father had left behind, he snatched his brother back from death.

Blood bags flowed through the black market’s hidden currents, flawed bolts of cloth at the supply and marketing cooperative concealed golden purchase permits, and the squint-eyed director somehow recognized the coded gear mark his father had left behind…

Some called him a beggar with nothing to his name, unaware that he held the threads of cause and effect in his palm

Red threads sever misfortune, golden threads reel in fortune, and gray threads ensnare and kill!

He would tread on the rusted nails of the times and weld an ant’s life into a ladder reaching for the heavens!