Liang Xin

Biodata

Power Progression

Liang Xin’s progression upgrades his System Shop, expanding its inventory and increasing his daily check-in income rather than granting documented combat powers 18 19 22.

• At Level 5, Liang Xin predicts that the next upgrade will cost 240 experience and raise his check-in reward to three yuan; neither advancement is confirmed in the supplied chapters 35.

Background / History

Previous Life and Rebirth

Before his rebirth, Liang Xin lived in the modern era and worked as a junior department head. He died suddenly before thirty, leaving savings exceeding one million yuan. His death convinces him that staying alive, protecting his health, and enjoying life matter more than accumulating money through exhausting work 1 20.

He awakens in the body of an eighteen-year-old high-school graduate who failed to enter college but secured employment in the supply and marketing cooperative system. The original Liang Xin’s literacy helped him become a procurement agent. Memories of the young man’s life surface when Liang Xin encounters familiar people or situations rather than arriving all at once 1 2.

Initially unsure of his surroundings, he recognizes the era’s poverty after seeing the patched clothing worn by his neighbors—and realizing his own clothes have even more patches. His system’s daily income reassures him that he will not starve 2.

Procurement Work and Courtyard Life

Liang Xin begins work under Zhou Aimin, accompanying Li Haiyang to learn the surrounding villages and procurement procedures. Loading goods, walking back behind full carts, and unloading at the workplace exhaust him enough to consider quitting 6.

Sharing eggs with Li Haiyang leads to an unexpected discovery: gifts can earn both system experience and practical favors. Li Haiyang lets him rest and arranges for him to ride back on a cart. Liang Xin subsequently uses cigarettes to cultivate his coworkers’ goodwill and pretends to be ill to avoid heavy labor 10 11 19 20.

In his courtyard, he distributes candy to children and sells eggs to households introduced by He Ting. These exchanges earn experience, improve neighborhood relations, and provide resale income. He Ting’s explanations also persuade him to help people in difficulty when doing so is within his means 13 15 16 17.

His poor cooking becomes another pressing problem. After Sister Xiao Zhu cooks for him, he begins sharing meals with her and her husband, Brother Chen, supplying ingredients that allow the couple to enjoy unusually generous dishes 25 27 28 32 33.

Independent Assignments and Homecoming

Zhou Aimin arranges for Liang Xin to lead procurement assignments around his hometown. Although intended as a favor, the assignment alarms Liang Xin because it forces him to meet the family of the body he has inherited 31 34.

Before departing, Liang Xin gives premium cigarettes to Zhou Aimin and Team Leader Xiang while implying that influential relatives supply him with scarce goods. Their improved opinion of him helps him choose two familiar cart drivers for his team. He secures Li Haiyang’s cooperation with cigarettes and an offer to reserve meat for him 39 40 41.

At home, Liang Xin confronts the difference between inherited memories and personal affection. He accepts responsibility for supporting the family but remains uncertain how much to give out of duty and how much might eventually come from genuine attachment 44.

He successfully greets his parents without exposing his changed identity and explains that his route will let him return every two days. He brings rice and pork, then visits his grandparents with two jin of meat for his eldest uncle’s household and invites the grandparents to dinner 47 49 50.

Appearance

• Eighteen-year-old body: More physically resilient than his previous body, though procurement labor still leaves him exhausted 6 10 21.
• Heavily patched clothing: Owns two sets of clothing that he keeps clean despite their poor condition 2 45.
• Delayed work uniform: Joins between the cooperative’s scheduled clothing distributions and expects to wait another two months for new work clothes 45.

Personality

Liang Xin is pleasure-seeking and strongly averse to repeating the overwork of his previous life. Food, rest, health, and comfortable housing drive many of his decisions. He dreams of buying a small courtyard house of his own and improving it with modern amenities 1 8 23 38.

He is calculating about generosity, comparing the price of gifts against their experience rewards and social benefits. Nevertheless, his interest in helping others is not entirely transactional: he accepts He Ting’s advice to assist people without harming his own livelihood and admires his mother’s willingness to share scarce meat with relatives 12 13 17 50.

His friendliness coexists with manipulation. He stages illness, uses gifts to reduce his workload, and invents powerful relatives to explain his supplies and raise his standing. He also recognizes the importance of avoiding needless offense, choosing to compensate Li Haiyang rather than simply use management’s favor to take his cart drivers 19 20 26 40 41.

Liang Xin dislikes generosity becoming an obligation. When a child treats future candy as something owed to him, he worries that continued gifts could breed resentment if they stop. He instead offers candy in exchange for borrowed books, giving the children a concrete way to reciprocate 36.

Abilities & Skills

Daily Check-In System

Provides regular income and access to a shop within his mind 1.

• Starts at one yuan per day, rising to 1.2 yuan at Level 2 and 2.4 yuan at Level 5 1 19 35.
• Accepts ordinary money as shop credit; Liang Xin initially deposits twenty-six yuan 3 4.
• Purchases can appear directly in his hand, allowing him to obtain food without visiting an ordinary shop 18.
• His system income is separate from his eighteen-yuan monthly apprentice wage 4.

Experience Acquisition and Shop Upgrades

Receives Level-Up Experience from other people’s gratitude 2 7.

• Early rewards include five points from He Ting, ten from Jiang Xinxin, and three from Li Haiyang 2 7 10.
• Concludes that the same person can provide experience only once per day after repeated gifts fail to produce additional rewards 8 11.
• Finds children especially economical sources of experience: one-fen candies commonly earn several points 12 13.
• Familiar recipients can provide smaller rewards as gifts become less surprising 17 31.
• Suspects ten points per recipient is the maximum, but treats this as a deduction rather than a confirmed rule 40.
• Upgrade prompts invite him to “make a wish”; he repeatedly chooses random product additions after his initial wish to return home 17 18 22 31.

Inherited Memories

Can recall the original Liang Xin’s knowledge through relevant encounters 1.

• Recognizes relatives, neighbors, and village officials when associated memories surface 2 42 45.
• Uses remembered family behavior to manage his homecoming and avoid suspicion 47 49.
• Possesses the original owner’s memories without automatically sharing his emotional attachment to the family 44.

Social Maneuvering

Applies experience from his former working life to relationships in the scarcity-era workplace 20.

• Exchanges food and cigarettes for goodwill, lighter duties, and cooperative teammates 11 20 41.
• Uses premium goods and vague claims about relatives to imply access to influential people 26 40.
• Avoids using that story in his home village, where residents already know his family’s circumstances 43.
• Resells system goods for cash; one egg-selling venture earns him five yuan in profit 17.

Cooking

Can prepare simple boiled meals but lacks the skills to make the dishes he actually wants 7 19.

• Regularly boils pork, eggs, and dried noodles 5 7 13.
• Makes a sweet tomato snack by covering tomato wedges with sugar 25.
• Cannot confidently cook rice without a rice cooker or prepare stir-fried dishes, prompting him to seek help with meals 7 24 25.

Equipment / Items

• Small cooking pot — Issued with his work supplies and used to prepare meals at home 5 6.
• Patched shoulder bag — The original owner’s childhood schoolbag, later used to carry selected books 37.
• Borrowed books — Acquires roughly forty or fifty books, picture books, and an old textbook by exchanging candy for loans 36.
• Export cigarettes — System product costing ten cents per pack; valued by coworkers for their unfamiliar packaging and smooth, filtered smoke 22 30 40.
• Special-supply cigarettes — Cost one yuan per pack. Their description claims that a crush bead clears harmful inhaled substances and makes smoking beneficial to health; Liang Xin personally confirms their exceptional taste, not the medical claim 22 23.

Relationships

• He Ting / Aunt He — Neighbor, colleague, and designated caretaker. Offers meals, teaches him about appropriate gifts, finds egg buyers, and encourages him to help households in need 1 3 12 15 17.
• Jiang Xinxin — He Ting’s youngest daughter. His gifts of pork and eggs make her an early source of experience; she tells her mother despite his requests for secrecy 7 8 9.
• Li Haiyang / Brother Li — Experienced procurement coworker and early guide. Responds to Liang Xin’s gifts by helping him rest, arranging cart rides, and covering work 6 10 11 20.
• Zhou Aimin / Lao Zhou — Purchasing-team leader. Trains Liang Xin, arranges his hometown route, and supports his first independent assignment 6 34 40.
• Team Leader Xiang — Logistics supervisor whose deference increases after Liang Xin implies that he has influential relatives. Lets him select his preferred cart drivers 40 41.
• Sister Xiao Zhu — Neighbor and skilled cook. Shares meals with Liang Xin, prepares dishes from his ingredients, and sends leftovers home with him 27 28 30 35.
• Brother Chen — Sister Xiao Zhu’s husband and Liang Xin’s dining companion 27 28 33.
• Parents — Poor villagers whom Liang Xin feels responsible for supporting. His mother is delighted that his new route permits frequent visits 44 47.
• Younger siblings — Two sisters and two brothers; the named brothers are Liang Wei, the third child, and Liang Yong, the youngest, aged a little over three 2 45 49.
• Paternal grandparents — Dote on him as the grandson expected to improve the family’s fortunes. His grandfather named him, and both grandparents call him Xinxin 47 50.
• Former girlfriend — His company’s CFO, who earned more than him and treated him considerately 28.

Trivia

• His grandfather chose 鑫, a character composed of three 金 characters meaning “gold,” after being mocked for his lifelong poverty. The nickname Xinxin doubles that symbolism to six “gold” characters 50.
• Although he repeatedly considers quitting, Liang Xin recognizes that unemployment would make him a socially disdained “street loafer” 8 10 38.
• His dream of returning to modern life includes becoming wealthy and confronting his former boss; even in the dream, he rejects being a CEO in favor of being the owner 19.