Reborn in '88: From a Small-Town Painter to National Fame

Lu Chen finds himself back in 1988, at the very start of his journey as a humble painter. In his past life, he climbed to the heights of success and acclaim, yet the one thing he could never reclaim was the woman he lost—the pure, unattainable love that haunted him to the very end. This time, he returns armed with more than three decades of professional painting experience and a deep command of postmodern artistic techniques. His modern knowledge and skills are nothing short of a revolution, delivering a crushing blow to the old-guard industry of the era. But that upheaval is secondary. What truly drives him now is not merely making a living through his art or staging a spectacular comeback—it is the resolve to spend every remaining year of this new life pursuing the love that once slipped away, and finally writing its perfect, lasting ending.