Back in the City in the 1980s, I Made My Own Fortune

During the wave of people returning to the cities in the late 1970s, I, Xu Nian'an, was the one my own parents left behind in the countryside.

They stole my place on the return list and gave it to my older brother. Then they forced me to marry a lame old bachelor in exchange for a bride price. In the end, I froze and starved to death in a dilapidated woodshed, without even a hot meal before I died.

When I opened my eyes, I had returned to the day the return list was announced.

This time, in front of the whole village, I tore up the contract my parents had signed to sell me and cut ties with them for good. With the five yuan I had saved over several years in my pocket, I squeezed onto a train to the city that very night.

With no connections and no household registration, I started by selling snacks at a stall and sewing clothes on a machine. Drawing on my memories of my past life, I slowly built up my savings amid the opportunities of the 1980s.

Later, I opened a restaurant and started a clothing factory, becoming a capable businesswoman everyone called "Boss Xu."

The parents and siblings who had once ground me into the dirt now crowd outside my company, crying and begging me to acknowledge them as family. I only have one thing to say to them through the security guards:

"The way you treated me back then is why you won't get a single cent from me in this life."

I'll make my own way to wealth. No one else gets to ride my coattails.