Chen Fan was reborn in a fishing village in 1985. In his previous life, he was a spineless man shackled by blind filial piety. His father, Chen Dahai, was vain and obsessed with appearances, yet lavished attention on Bai Xiulian, a beautiful widow in the village raising two children. Bai Xiulian always put on a helpless, pitiful act, leading Chen Dahai to keep giving her the family's money and food.
His mother tried to stop him, only for his father to berate her as vicious and heartless. In his previous life, Chen Fan couldn't see through the selfishness beneath his father's hypocritical facade. Instead, he thought his father was a great man, joined in criticizing his mother, and even helped his father carry the family's belongings to the widow. In the end, his pregnant wife fell ill and died; the family was left penniless and buried in debt. Only as he lay dying did he finally realize that he had destroyed the happy home they could have had with his own hands.
Reborn into a new life, Chen Fan opened his eyes at the very moment his father was about to take the money set aside for his wife's medical care and the family's last half-sack of rice to the widow.
This time, Chen Fan didn't push his mother aside. He stood in front of her and snatched the money and rice from his father's hands.
Just then, he saw a label appear above his father's head:
[Name: Chen Dahai]
[Status: Blinded by lust, congratulating himself]
[Inner thoughts: If I can make Xiulian happy, maybe tonight I'll get to... Heh heh.]
Chen Fan could see the labels on all things. With this ability, he avoided every trap and seized every opportunity, building his own business empire, starting with fishing and treasure hunting. After his father was thrown out of the house, all he could do was watch Chen Fan's family build a new house, buy a television, and thrive. In the end, he was left to regret everything amid poverty and the villagers' contempt.
Thank you to all my readers for your support. As a new author, my writing skills are limited, and my understanding of the 1980s is also limited, so many plot points are quite convoluted. The information I found online is also relatively limited, resulting in many inconsistencies in the plot. Sometimes I even had to revise the plot after finishing it, and sometimes I missed some parts.