Quenching 1996

Thirty years of endless regret, nightly blood-soaked nightmares. Du Jianjun, destitute and lonely, terminally ill on his deathbed, can only hear echoing in his mind the blood-red dusk of 1996. An alcoholic and violent man, self-abasing and cowardly, he feared power outside but bullied his wife and child at home. Because Factory Director Zhao and his son maliciously framed him and publicly slandered him, he swallowed his pride for the enviable state-owned enterprise iron rice bowl, then turned all his rage on his gentle wife. He humiliated her in public, suspected her, beat and cursed her, let the neighbors watch and mock, crushed her innocence, and drove the desperate Zhao Shujuan to slit her own throat with a knife, blood staining the whole house. Their four-year-old daughter witnessed her mother's tragic death with her own eyes, lived half her life in shadow and hatred, and cut off all contact with him until he died. Family destroyed, alone in misery until old age—this was the final retribution for Du Jianjun's sins in his previous life. Closing his eyes and starting over, he returns to the morning of the day the tragedy happened—his wife still alive, his daughter unharmed, the sin not yet committed, everything still salvageable! In his previous life he was useless his whole life, unable to protect his wife and child, letting villains run rampant; in this life he will redeem himself through blood, abandon the iron rice bowl, make big money, and protect the rest of his life! He slaps the arrogant powerful in public, seizes a sky-high compensation as his first pot of gold, resolutely goes into business and turns his fate around, trampling every obstacle flat step by step. From then on he reins in his violence, gives tenderness to his wife and love to his daughter. In this life, he turns the tide against the wind, spends the rest of his life protecting his family's completeness, and lives a life without regret! — Description from novelcodex.org