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Against the Current 1978: From Tanghulu Vendor to Capital Queen

share time: 2026-02-03 00:30:52

Lin Wan, who was reborn in 1978 with the memories of a top businesswoman from her previous life, is forced to sell tanghulu (sugar-coated hawthorns) due to family misfortune. She uses modern business ideas to upgrade the traditional snack but faces accusations of “not doing proper work” from peers, investigations into “speculation” by the neighborhood committee, and early entanglement with her ex-husband who betrayed her in her past life. When she earns her first pot of gold from the tanghulu stall, she meets Chen Mo, the “black tech eccentric” she missed in her previous life—a man once mocked for being “too advanced.” He becomes her key partner in building a food factory and venturing into the capital market. As they navigate the constraints of the old era and develop secret affection, Lin Wan discovers her rebirth is linked to Chen Mo’s “future diary” hidden in an old drawer… An countercurrent journey through a great era, starting with a string of tanghulu, weaving the legend of a capital queen.

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