Return to 1983: Memories of Northern Fujian

Qin Huai is reborn in the midsummer of 1983. His wife, children, friends, teachers, and classmates from his past life are seemingly wiped away overnight, a heavy price for rebirth that leaves him breathless. Confronted by his cautious family, a sixty-year-old soul trapped inside an eighteen-year-old body, he chooses to accept reality, shoulder the responsibilities of the eldest son, and carry the burden of his household. The story begins with the simple act of selling the family's piglet. Even having lost his status as a university student, his forty years of accumulated knowledge, worldly sophistication, and profound life experience allow him to become a capable man at the dawn of the reform and opening-up era. Rooted in his homeland and dedicated to bringing prosperity to his local community, he spends his lifetime interpreting the life philosophy of revitalizing the nation through industry. Bound by emotional ties to his high school classmate from this lifetime, he chooses to build a stone statue in his heart to silently protect his wife from the past. Yet, beneath the chasm of changing identities, can he truly rekindle his former romance and reunite with her? This book reflects the changes of an era through personal destiny, carries cultural renaissance through commercial struggle, and reveals the warmth of human nature through the rise and fall of a family.