Reborn in 1982: Starting a Business from a Street Stall

In his previous life, Lin Chen was timid and content with a few acres of farmland, never daring to venture out. He was repeatedly exploited by his scheming relatives and missed every opportunity to get rich in the changing times. His father died early from overwork, his mother endured a life of hardship, and the woman he loved married someone else due to his poverty. He ended up in debt, filled with regret. A heavy rain brings him back to 1982, when individual business policies had just been relaxed, and opportunities were everywhere. Armed with decades of future memories, Lin Chen sheds his former weakness. He first confronts his snobbish aunt who comes to collect debts, then scrapes together a small capital to set up a stall at the market, earning his first pot of gold by selling small commodities. From street stalls to shops, wholesale, and factories, he seizes every wave of opportunity—treasury bonds, land, light industry—protecting his parents, making up for past regrets, and silencing all those who looked down on his family. Together with his beloved, he rises from a rural vendor to build his own business empire, riding the tide of reform and opening up.