Reborn in 1980: From the Start, I Stole My Classmate's Girlfriend

[Rebirth in a bygone era] [Face-slapping a two-timing woman] [Building the nation through industry] [Underhanded business warfare]

Jin Weidong and his girlfriend invested in stamps together and lost his parents' entire life savings.

His tea-loving girlfriend, who had always looked down on his technical college education, dumped him without a second thought, saddled him with their massive debt, and turned around to fawn over a rich heir.

In a single night, he lost the future he and his parents had dreamed of. He dropped out to work, dragged his friends down with him, and though he eventually earned a doctorate through hard work, he spent half his life adrift and the rest in regret.

After being reborn, the first thing he did was break up with his girlfriend.

He had a doctorate, and now he'd been reborn. Who would bother going back to school?

First, he used the stamps he still had to make a spectacular comeback. Then, leveraging technology decades ahead of its time, he brought the richest men together to make money, revitalized his hometown's tea industry, made diamonds by hand, and went overseas to wage financial warfare in Japan and the United States ahead of schedule.

But just as he was about to become the richest man, his ex-girlfriend came crying and begging on her knees for forgiveness...