1978: Zombies? Is This for Real?

[Folk horror and suspense, rebirth, period setting] This story is entirely fictional.

Zhao Decheng kicked the bucket. Zhao Qi’an sent him off with a bottle of erguotou, and when he woke up, he had become his own grandfather, Zhao Decheng.

He never wanted to become his father’s father just to get one over on his old man. But the fact was, he’d been reborn as Zhao Decheng, barely in his twenties and raising a three-year-old son. So now it was his responsibility to save the Zhao family business from ruin and raise little Zhao You’an, while making sure everything stayed on course with the future he knew. But… Zhao Qi’an discovered that the moment he’d been reborn into had one thing in common with the tall tales his grandfather Zhao Decheng used to tell. And he meant that literally: just one thing. The other ninety-nine things were completely different.

Just as the Zhao family legacy was about to pass down to him, Chen Jinbao, the “funeral affairs chief” from next door, showed up at his door and said he wanted to introduce him to a lucrative “business”…