I Broke Off Our Engagement to Marry a Beautiful Educated Youth, So Why Are You Crying?

Li Lang spent half his previous life down on his luck, unable to tell good people from bad. His life ended in bitterness, but in a single moment he was reborn in 1977, a year of sweeping change.

They think I'm a failure? They laugh at me for being useless? They don't know I'm the first person in my village to have ten thousand yuan!

Li Lang rises from adversity, gets revenge on his fiancée, marries the daughter of a high-ranking official, rides the wave of reform and opening up, seizes the opportunity of the household responsibility system, and reaps every benefit of the era.

Starting out farming in the countryside and dabbling in shady side hustles, he builds his fortune from nothing, climbs to the top step by step, and reaches the pinnacle of life with a beautiful wife and untold wealth!