Reborn in the 80s: Success Begins with Refusing Matrilocal Marriage

In 1983, Qin Huairen and his younger brother were both accepted into university. However, their impoverished family could only afford the tuition for one person. With no other choice, the brothers drew lots to decide their fate. The loser would agree to a matrilocal marriage into Xu Meiling’s family, taking the place of her former husband as a coal miner. Qin Huairen lost the draw and ended up marrying into Xu Meiling’s household. Every day, he descended into the pitch-black coal mine to dig coal for a monthly wage of 80 yuan. He used his earnings to support his younger brother's university education while also providing for Xu Meiling’s two children. Cruelly, fate dealt him a devastating blow in a mining accident. Although Qin Huairen managed to survive, he was left entirely disabled and unable to care for himself. At first, Xu Meiling took care of him for a few years, but eventually, she and her two children simply threw him out onto the street. With nowhere left to go, Qin Huairen sought out his younger brother, only to be turned away at the door as well. In the end, it was his elderly parents who used their life savings to send him to a nursing home, where Qin Huairen finally ended his life with a cloth strip. Yet, just when he thought he had found release, Qin Huairen unexpectedly found himself reborn back in 1983, right at the moment he had just been accepted into university. From this moment on, Qin Huairen sets out to rewrite his destiny.