80S Surge Era

In the spring of 1982, Lin Hao, a young man from Rongcheng, woke up on the green train traveling south to Pengcheng and found that he was twenty years old again. In his previous life, he moved bricks on a construction site, was defrauded of money, missed every trend of the times, and finally died alone on a rainy night in 2023. In this life, he returned to the starting point of reform and opening up with the memories of the next forty years. But he soon discovered that rebirth was no shortcut. He knew that real estate would skyrocket in the future, but all he had in his pocket was the thirty-seven yuan and sixty cents his mother had sewn into his waistband. He predicted that stocks would skyrocket, but he couldn't even find a way to open an account. Starting from secretly selling three electronic watches in Laojiekou, to teaming up with fellow villager A Qiang at the construction site to survive; from holding all his savings at the land auction site with trembling hands and holding signs, to witnessing the first batch of colleagues to fall during macro-control... Lin Hao's every step is stepping on the tightrope of the times, with opportunities on the left and abyss on the right. And Chu Man, the girl who silently served porridge at the old street porridge shop, became the first and last ballast stone in his shaky reality. She said: When you look up at the sky, I have to look down at the road under my feet. This is not a simple myth of getting rich. This is a story about atonement - guilt towards family, debt towards lovers, righteousness towards brothers. When the tide of history roars, Lin Hao must answer: What price does a person have to pay in order to catch up with the times without being swallowed up by the times?