Back to 1995: Getting Rich with My Family on an Island

Meng Wanxing spent her previous life enduring one misery after another.

Her father was treated by her grandmother as unpaid labor, with his entire salary going to support her uncle and aunt. He grew bitter and unfulfilled in middle age. Her mother swallowed her anger until she became a resentful woman. The two of them fought every day and nearly broke up the family. Her uncle was spoiled into an overgrown child and eventually landed in jail. Her aunt was conceited and married the wrong man, then came back to her parents' home every day to stir up trouble. As for Meng Wanxing herself, after a serious illness at fifteen, her family had no money for follow-up rehabilitation. Her condition worsened over time, and she died at twenty-nine.

When she opened her eyes, she had been reborn in 1995. She was fifteen, in her first year of high school, and had just left the hospital after recovering from a serious illness. There was still time to change everything.

That year, Linwan Island was littered with unfinished buildings after the real estate bubble burst. Everyone said the place was finished. But Meng Wanxing knew that in just over a decade, it would be developed into an internationally renowned tourist island, and the coastal wasteland that could be rented for just one yuan would eventually be worth a fortune.

Her father, Meng Heping, was quick-witted and silver-tongued, but seemed chained in place by the word "filial."

This time, Meng Wanxing would be his strategist, pushing him out of that mire. Starting with a roadside food stall, she would build a restaurant chain across the island and become a major player in other fields, too. She would stand up for her mother, put her biased grandmother, freeloading uncle, and vain aunt in their places, get her grandfather to take better care of his health, and bring home early the quiet neighbor boy she had missed out on in her previous life.

Others laughed and called her crazy. Meng Wanxing just smiled without a word. The winds of change had only just begun to blow.