
by PRATUL
Lin Feng lived a life of cold steel and quiet solitude. A brilliant mechanical engineer, he spent fifty-nine years as an orphan with no family, no roots, and no one to come home to. When his lifelong factory shut down, he was forced into the lonely life of a taxi driver just to survive—until a fatal crash took his life while he was saving a stranger. He expected the end. Instead, he got a second chance. Lin Feng awakens in the year 1988. He hasn't been reincarnated as an overpowered youth or a magical hero; he is in the weathered body of a fifty-five-year-old man living in a quiet, rustic village. But the biggest shock isn't the era—it is the woman who greets him with a warm breakfast, and the house full of life. For the first time in his existence, Lin Feng is not an orphan. He has a family
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