"Lin Sen, what are you shamelessly standing here for? Get back to your country doghouse and stop getting in our way!"
On a moonlit night in autumn, outside a three-story villa in the central street of Linhai County.
A round-faced woman in a blue dress was pointing at a young man with disheveled clothes and a dirty face, angrily berating him.
"Splash."
It seems the insults weren't enough.
The woman with the round face picked up a basin of mopping water from the steps and splashed it hard on the young man's head.
The young man was soaked to the bone.
But this act of watering, by a twist of fate, completely awakened the young man.
"Didn't I fall off the handrail and die?"
"Have I... been reborn?"
As black mud slid down his hair, Lin Sen suddenly opened his eyes.
Under the bright moonlight, Lin Sen's dazed pupils gradually became clear.
Lin Sen got a good look at the grumpy face of the woman with the round face in front of him, as well as the three-story villa with lights on behind her.
Lin Sen subconsciously turned his head to scan the area.
Then he saw walls everywhere printed with slogans such as "Fewer births, better births, a happy life," "Family planning is good, the country will support you in your old age," "Unity and friendship, revitalize China," and "To get rich, have fewer children and build more roads."
"I've been reborn back to that day in 1984..."
The fresh scent of earth and the fragrance of osmanthus filled the air, making Lin Sen's eyes widen with excitement!
God still has a conscience.
This can be considered a chance to start over for him, who lived a muddled life until the age of sixty, filled with regret and self-blame his whole life!
...
Lin Sen, formerly known as Chen Sen.
The son of Shen Youde, the richest man in Linhai County.
But it is true.
Fake!
Yes, that's the coincidence.
Twenty years ago, in 1864, the year Khrushchev stepped down, Shen Youde's wife, then an ordinary fisherman in Linhai County, gave birth in the same clinic as Lin Sen's biological mother.
Because the conditions at the health center were so poor at the time, with frequent power outages at night, and the nurses were also careless, Lin Sen and Shen Zhao were switched at birth.
From then on, Lin Sen became Shen Sen, and Shen Zhao became Lin Zhao.
In the following two decades, with the vigorous implementation of reform and opening up, the coastal areas experienced rapid development.
With his quick wit, Shen Youde's luck turned around. Starting from nothing, he became the richest man in Linhai County in just two or three years.
Then, by a twist of fate, Lin Sen became the richest young master in China for seven or eight years, living a life of extravagance and luxury.
But all of this came to an abrupt end six months ago!
Shen Youde, who suffered a sudden accident, urgently needed a blood transfusion, but Lin Sen and Shen Youde's blood types did not match.
Thus, a long-standing unsolved case was solved.
Shen Zhao was invited back to the Shen family.
Lin Sen, on the other hand, was kicked out of the Shen family!
They were driven to Haiwan Village in Linhai County, to a poor and ordinary fishing family.
He went from being a pampered rich second-generation heir to a penniless poor second-generation slave.
Lin Sen couldn't accept this cruel reality!
To keep Lin Sen, his biological parents spent all their savings to marry him a virtuous and beautiful wife.
However, Lin Sen still didn't want to stay in that poor and backward fishing village.
Over the past six months, Lin Sen has visited the Shen family several times.
He went so far as to kneel and kowtow, weep and plead for mercy from Shen Youde and Li Guihua, hoping to return to the Shen family and continue being the eldest son of the Shen family.
But all they received was the Shen family's disdain.
"The Shen family."
Looking at the three-story villa in front of him, and Shen Hui, the 'eldest sister' who was pointing at his nose and cursing him viciously.
Lin Sen gave a bitter smile.
Laugh at your own foolishness, absurdity, humility, and cowardice in your past life!
In his previous life, unable to accept the impoverished life in the small fishing village, and repeatedly humiliated by the Shen family, Lin Sen left Linhai County in a fit of anger and went to work in the north alone.
That departure lasted for a full twenty years.
In the year 2000, Lin Sen, who had made some money by running a transportation business, gradually reconciled with his past self as he got older.
So Lin Sen drove back to Linhai with the gifts.
I want to see my parents, whom I haven't seen for twenty years, and my wife!
But unfortunately.
When Lin Sen returned to Haiwan Village, the old Lin family house was already dilapidated and the walls had collapsed.
All that remained were five lonely, dilapidated graves, their tops already overgrown with grass a meter high.
It turns out that in the winter of 1984, Lin Sen's wife, Li Yueru, gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl.
But because Lin Sen suddenly disappeared, his father, while searching for him, unfortunately fell into the sea and drowned.
After Lin Sen's father died, the Lin family, having lost its pillar of support, faced even greater poverty and hardship.
But misfortune never comes singly; bad luck seems to target the unfortunate.
In the twelfth lunar month, Lin Sen's mother wanted her daughter-in-law, who was in postpartum confinement, to eat something good.
He went fishing alone in a small boat during the dead of winter and eventually froze to death at sea.
After Lin Sen's mother died, Li Yueru cried until she went blind. In the end, she took her two children and ate rat poison together.
Apart from Lin Sen, the family of five remained forever in the bitter winter of 1984.
After the neighbors recounted the tragic deaths of the five members of the Lin family, Lin Sen knelt before the graves of his parents, wife, and children for three days and three nights.
Afterwards, Lin Sen left Haiwan Village. He squandered his fortune and spent his days with cigarettes and alcohol, living like a walking corpse, much like in Train to Busan...
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