Chapter 1: Reborn 1987 Chapter 1: Returning to the Eighties

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Protagonist:

Jiang Wenyu

Gripping the old door handle, Jiang Wenyu's body trembled slightly.

Several times he wanted to push the door open, yet he lacked the courage.

Afraid that everything before his eyes was merely a dream.

Jiang Wenyu had originally been a successful tycoon of the 21st century, worth over a hundred billion; unfortunately he died young, passing away from cancer in his early fifties.

The moment he closed his eyes, he felt time reversing endlessly.

Finally, it froze outside this small room.

This was his home from when he was young.

But after his wife and daughter left in a car accident, this home ceased to exist.

For the death of his wife and daughter, Jiang Wenyu regretted all his life.

He thought he would never be able to make amends in this lifetime, yet he never expected heaven to grant him a chance at rebirth.

Taking a deep breath, calming the excitement in his heart, Jiang Wenyu turned the door handle.

The wooden door swung open, and a not-large room came into view.

On the living room cabinet sat an old black-and-white television, beside it a slightly yellowed round wooden table, several enamel mugs placed neatly.

In the bedroom of less than ten square meters, a simple wooden wardrobe, an old-fashioned sewing machine...

Unknowingly, tears blurred Jiang Wenyu's eyes.

All of this was so familiar.

In his previous life, countless times his soul yearned in dreams, only hoping to return here.

At this moment, he saw on the wall that old yellow calendar with pages torn off one by one; the date on it was September 31, 1987.

Jiang Wenyu's body shuddered; his wife and daughter had met with the car accident in this very year.

The Jiang Wenyu of the eighties had also been a young man full of ambition; seeing his old classmates start businesses one after another and then live dazzling lives, he too borrowed a sum of money wanting to open a factory.

But he, without any experience, failed without a doubt!

Having never endured society's beatings, after the entrepreneurial failure Jiang Wenyu never recovered; his temperament changed drastically — he drank heavily, gambled, and often went gambling while drunk, letting people set him up, owing a mountain of debt.

When he lost money gambling, he took it out on his wife and daughter, beating them severely.

It was also because of this that his wife Chen Lan ultimately took their daughter and ran away from home.

But just at the moment they went out the door, a large truck leapt out from the road, and tragedy struck.

"My wife and daughter leaving is my greatest regret; since heaven let me be reborn, I will definitely change all of this."

Jiang Wenyu's heart was firm.

That year's car accident occurred in late October of '87; there is still one month's time from now!

In this life, he absolutely will not let the tragedy repeat!

Just then, the house's front door opened, and a plainly dressed woman of about twenty-three or twenty-four appeared before Jiang Wenyu.

By the woman's side, she led a petite little girl with pigtails.

"A Lan, Nuan Nuan..."

Seeing mother and daughter in that instant, Jiang Wenyu's tears welled up again.

Chen Lan married him at twenty and gave birth to their daughter Jiang Nuannuan that same year.

This year, Nuan Nuan is four, yet because of long-term malnutrition she is frail and sickly.

Gazing at his exquisitely lovely daughter, Jiang Wenyu's body shook.

After that car accident in his previous life, his wife and daughter's figures could only appear in his dreams; Jiang Wenyu never dared imagine that one day he would see them again.

Unable to restrain himself, he stepped forward, wanting to embrace his daughter in his arms.

But just as Jiang Wenyu reached out his hand, Nuan Nuan suddenly shrank back behind Chen Lan, her eyes full of fear; "Mama, he's back!"

Chen Lan's body also trembled; she instinctively retreated, her gaze at Jiang Wenyu clearly carrying fear.

But as a mother, she tightly shielded Nuan Nuan behind her; "If you want to hit someone, hit me, don't take it out on the child!"

Jiang Wenyu froze.

Only then did he remember that at this time he was still that good-for-nothing who idled away his days, knowing only how to drink and gamble recklessly.

If not for this, Chen Lan would not have taken their daughter and left a month later.

"Nuan Nuan, don't be afraid; from now on I won't hit you two again." Jiang Wenyu said.

Chen Lan was surprised by Jiang Wenyu's words; is this Jiang Wenyu?

Nuan Nuan clung tightly to Chen Lan's thigh, her little face full of terror, not daring to make eye contact with Jiang Wenyu, afraid he would go into a drunken frenzy and beat them again.

Looking at mother and daughter's fear of him, Jiang Wenyu silently cursed his former self for truly being a beast.

Such a beautiful wife and adorable daughter, he did not know to cherish them, only regretting bitterly after losing them.

Thinking of this, Jiang Wenyu voluntarily stepped back, showing he would not lay a hand on them.

He knew that to change Chen Lan and Nuan Nuan's view of him would still take time.