Gao Yuan renasceu e voltou para a véspera do exame nacional de admissão à universidade de 1977. Em sua vida anterior, ele era uma pessoa comum, mas agora está determinado a mudar seu destino participa
“Crack!”
The sound of the belt slicing through the air made Gao Yuan shudder from head to toe.
His lower back burned with pain. Looking up, he saw his father, Gao Yuemin, trembling as he held the belt, his face flushed crimson.
“Are you determined to anger me to death before you’ll be satisfied? Don’t you have any idea what our family is going through? Your uncle is still in the cowshed writing self-criticisms. I’m nothing but a stinking intellectual. Who knows when I’ll ever get my teaching position back? Your mother is still working in the countryside as a barefoot doctor.
“It’s been four years. Your sister has been sent down to the countryside for four full years, and there’s still no telling when she’ll be allowed to return to the city!
“And you? You don’t do a single respectable thing all day long. Today you spend the night at a classmate’s house; tomorrow you’re taking liberties with some woman by the roadside. You’re young, but you’ve learned all the wrong things—smoking, drinking, harassing female classmates. How long do you intend to carry on like this?
“Can’t you give me a little peace of mind?
“You have a few drinks and suddenly forget how much you’re worth. What the hell were you doing, running to Qiao Shan’s house in the middle of the night? You’ve disgraced us completely!”
Looking at his furious father, at the profound disappointment written across the older man’s face, Gao Yuan first confirmed one thing:
He had been reborn.
He knew this scene all too well. It was buried deep in his memory, a momen