short series

Back to 1998: From Underdog to Peak

share time: 2025-12-13 00:35:30

Lin Chuan, a modern corporate slave, dies from overwork—only to wake up in 1998 at the old alley, the regretful starting point where he lost his first love Su Xiaotang to poverty and missed the golden opportunities of China’s reform and opening-up! What’s more, a snarky “Counterattack System” pops up in his mind: To earn your first pot of gold? First help the downstairs aunt sell ten crates of popsicles! Want to pursue Su Xiaotang? Do a full set of morning exercises as a “confession ritual”! While competing with Chen Mo, the rich kid who stole Xiaotang and his business back then, Lin Chuan is constantly tricked by the system into making a fool of himself (like buying national bonds instead of stocks due to nervousness, and being ridiculed by the system as “hands slower than brains”). He’s using 21st-century insights to get rich, while trying to “rewrite” his lost love—until the system drops a bombshell: If he can’t save Xiaotang’s family’s failing garment factory by the end of the year, he’ll be trapped in the “overwork death” loop forever?!

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