Recaps

After returning to 2000, Lin Chao Ci used his foreknowledge to protect his family, bring down Ding Qiushan, and secure stakes in promising companies. With Lin Jianguo poised to join the provincial leadership, Lin Chao Ci borrowed against his Tencent shares to fund his growing investments.

• Lin Chao Ci exposed Wang Defa’s plan to frame Lin Jianguo, helping his father confront the plot and gather evidence against Ding Qiushan.
• Lin Chao Ci rekindled his relationship with Qin Chi Chi while buying into Penguin Company and planning investments in other future-successful firms.
• Lin Chao Ci returned to university, promised his class an original patriotic song, and arranged to protect Li Si Han before her father’s injury led to danger for her.
• Lin Chao Ci recovered evidence hidden in Ding Qiushan’s villa, gave investigators material that isolated Ding, and arranged care for Li Si Han’s family and Fang Miaoke’s father.
• Lin Chao Ci hired Fang Miaoke as his personal secretary, registered more than a hundred songs, and signed a deal for 20% of Tencent despite lacking cash.
• Lin Chao Ci circulated evidence that left Ding Qiushan isolated, and Ding confessed after investigators revealed that the evidence against him was secure.
• Ding Qiushan received life imprisonment, Wang Defa received twenty years, and Lin Jianguo was set to join the provincial leadership.
• Lin Chao Ci signed share agreements with Wangzhu, Qiandu, and Soumao, then borrowed 20 million yuan against his Tencent stake at 5.3% annual interest.

Lin Chao Ci expanded his clothing business while helping Lin Jianguo address the Lishui Dam crisis and a wave of factory layoffs. The family reunited in the imperial capital, where Lin Chao Ci revealed his company’s rapid growth and chose to meet former friends whose motives he remembered from his previous life.

• Lin Chao Ci warned Lin Jianguo that the Lishui Dam was cracked, then proposed a public fundraising drive to pay for repairs.
• Lin Chao Ci bought a garment factory, secured loans, and launched the Beauty Series, whose sales and distributor interest quickly grew.
• Lin Chao Ci helped Lin Jianguo counter pressure from the Ximen Family and later offered to employ thousands of workers facing layoffs.
• Lin Jianguo accepted responsibility for factory closures and layoffs, then traveled with Lin Chao Ci to the imperial capital for New Year.
• Lin Chao Ci reunited with his grandparents and extended family, and advised Lin Huguo to seek broader experience through a transfer to a remote region.
• Lin Chao Ci told his family the Lin Group was worth over a hundred million, then decided to meet former friends despite remembering their ulterior motives.