Return to the 1986 Mountain Village: Hunting in the Southwest

No system, 1980s farming story, daily life in a southwestern rural village, hunting, mountain goods, wild mushrooms, and medicinal herbs. In his past life, Zhou Jianye lived a muddled and cowardly existence until the age of sixty. On his deathbed, not a single soul was by his side—a bitter fruit of his own making. In his early years, marital discord led to frequent quarrels, and his wife eventually passed away young due to lingering illnesses. Their two children were taken away by his family, leaving him a true outcast. His older sister and second brother resented him because their aging father had favored him when dividing the family property, leaving him completely alone in his old age. During his middle years, he achieved nothing; in his forties, he still had to report to a chairman in his twenties. Unable to climb the corporate ladder, frail, and plagued by illness, it was only the moment his wife died that he finally woke up, realizing she had always been wonderful and that he was simply a scoundrel. For countless nights afterward, he dreamed of returning to that year to make amends for the foolish and bastardly mistakes of his past. Until one day, after a lifetime of mediocrity, Zhou Jianye suffered a fatal myocardial infarction—and unexpectedly was reborn back in 1986. This is the inspiring struggle of an ordinary man striving to reform his ways. Free from exaggerated tropes or arrogant face-slapping, it is a steady-paced tale of achieving a prosperous life through the labor of one's own hands.