My Restarted Life

The male protagonist, Wang Xiaochuan, is an honest man who is upright and kindhearted, but rather timid by nature. Though born into poverty, he graduates from college with his parents' loving support and encouragement, then passes the civil service exam and joins the county's Bureau of Culture and Tourism. He marries the daughter of a retired deputy county magistrate and has a child. Apart from facing some discrimination from his mother-in-law's family, everything goes fairly smoothly. But it all changes after a car accident. Tensions between him and his wife grow, while he faces relentless exclusion and suppression at work. One misfortune after another follows: his wife cheats on him, he gets divorced and loses his job, then gets swindled and goes bankrupt. Crushed by these blows, Wang Xiaochuan never recovers. Even past the age of fifty, he has no home and has achieved nothing. Even his own daughter despises him and refuses to acknowledge him. Looking back, he feels that fate has treated him so unfairly. Yet a chance encounter presses the rewind button on his life. Still penniless, how will he begin his life again?