In endless darkness.
Countless fragmented images flashed through Lin Hao's mind. He tried his best to see them clearly, but no matter how hard he tried, it was useless. After an unknown amount of time, Lin Hao felt like he had a dream, and suddenly, there was a sharp pain in his mind.
Suddenly, Lin Hao opened his eyes wide, looking at his surroundings, panting heavily, his face covered in sweat that soaked his hair.
What's going on? Didn't I jump off the rooftop and die? Lin Hao looked at his surroundings, thinking with confusion.
At this moment, he was lying on a bed, looking at everything around the room, feeling both strange and familiar.
He clearly jumped from the rooftop of an 18-story building. Even if he didn't die, he should be in a hospital. Where was he now?
As Lin Hao was confusedly recalling what happened, the bathroom door suddenly opened, and a modern woman walked out.
He saw a tall, fair-skinned, curvaceous, blonde, blue-eyed foreign woman walking out wrapped in a bath towel. Lin Hao stared intently at the girl in front of him, looking as if he had seen a ghost.
It wasn't because her figure was so good, but because Lin Hao knew this girl. When he first went to study in the United States in 2002, he hooked up with a girl named Fiona at a party. They slept together that night, and because it was his first time "fighting the landlord" with a foreign woman, Lin Hao's impression was particularly deep.
Could he have really been reborn to 2002? Lin Hao thought, a little uncertain. But it also seemed wrong, there were still many other images in his mind.
Fiona saw Lin Hao staring at her and smiled charmingly, placing her hands on her slender waist and turning around for Lin Hao.
He saw that when Fiona put her hands on her hips, her hands left the bath towel, causing the towel to fall directly to the ground, completely exposing her perfect figure in front of Lin Hao. But she didn't care at all, instead confidently showing off her figure to Lin Hao.
"Holy crap."
As soon as Lin Hao swore, he fainted again. His head hurt too much.
Lin Hao's consciousness fell into darkness again, but he was very clear. The images in his mind were very clear, and he recalled his past and present lives.
He was a Coal Second Generation, and his father was a Coal Boss.
His father, Lin Fugui, went into business in the 1980s, was a street punk, set up stalls, swindled, resold, speculated – whatever made money, he did it. Just like that, he really accumulated his first pot of gold.
Using his first pot of gold, he contracted a small coal mine in his hometown Huaian. After developing step by step, by the turn of the century in 2000, he had become the richest man in Huaian, with assets exceeding 1 billion.
Moreover, starting from 2003, coal prices rose all the way, and his assets grew like a train. At their peak, his family's assets were tens of billions, truly living up to his name.
Coal Bosses, this character with strong local color in China that cannot be ignored, give people the first impression of being rich, with a slicked-back hair, carrying a big mobile phone, accompanied by a mistress, and then hugging two young women in a nightclub, talking loudly about needing positive energy.
His Mom, Zheng Wanrong, was a college student of that era, a favored child of heaven, with delicate features and a dignified appearance. After graduation, she was assigned to a government office and originally had a bright future. He didn't know how she fell for Lin Fugui, who was poor and uneducated at the time.
This situation was like his daughter, whom he had finally raised, being abducted by the neighborhood punk. At that time, all of Mom Zheng Wanrong's family members objected. Her maternal grandfather and grandmother were both highly educated intellectuals. How could they look favorably upon Lin Fugui, who hadn't even finished junior high? But Mom followed Lin Fugui without hesitation.
Only after they had a child and made the relationship irreversible did her maternal grandfather and grandmother compromise. After that, she even resigned from her public office and started a business with Lin Fugui.
He hadn't suffered any hardship since he was born. By then, his family was already wealthy. From childhood to adulthood, he had everything he wanted, a complete rich second generation.
As soon as he turned 18, he was sent to study in the United States. While in China, his parents were still watching him, but once he went abroad, the sky was vast and the birds could fly freely, officially starting his unrestrained life.
In the few years he studied abroad, he didn't learn anything from books, but he was proficient in eating, drinking, and playing. He indulged in revelry every night, and the women beside him every morning were different. He didn't know how many foreign women he had slept with.
After returning to China, his family's assets were already over a hundred billion. He became a top rich second generation, and soon a group of fair-weather friends gathered around him. He didn't do anything serious all day, indulging in sensual pleasures. Bars and nightclubs were his regular haunts. He changed girlfriends one after another, the longest not exceeding a month, and the shortest only a day. He was even more like Wang Xiaozhang than Wang Xiaozhang.
This kind of life continued until 2012. The events that happened that year changed Lin Hao's life and also changed the Lin Family.
The word "mine disaster" basically accompanies all Coal Bosses, and it is also what they least want to encounter. Unfortunately, the Lin Family encountered it, and it was a major accident, killing dozens of people at once. If it were during normal times, with the Lin Family's connections, they would pay huge compensation to the families, and then bribe officials, and the matter would be over.
But coincidentally, it happened during a national crackdown and they hit the muzzle, being made an example of. Although they didn't end up in prison "stepping on sewing machines", the coal mine was sealed, they were fined a lot of money, and the company closed down.
The Lin Family went from prosperity to decline. After that, they started transforming, but after several years, all attempts failed, and they eventually went bankrupt, owing a huge amount of debt. They used up all their family savings to pay it off.
The fair-weather friends who had surrounded him before all ran away. The huge gap between before and after made it difficult for Lin Hao to adapt. He secretly sold the houses his parents had bought in North, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen over the years to start a business behind their backs.
These houses were all bought by Zheng Wanrong over the years and were all registered under Lin Hao's name. If they had lived a stable life, they wouldn't have to worry about money for the rest of their lives.
Just as he was planning to make a big splash, he encountered the pandemic. There was nothing he could do but sell houses to survive. After finally enduring until the pandemic ended, his partner absconded with the money and ran abroad, leaving him with a large debt.
When Lin Fugui found out, he fell ill and never recovered. Zheng Wanrong became ill from overwork while taking care of Lin Fugui. In the end, both of them passed away. Lin Hao himself, consumed by guilt, lived in a daze every day. Finally, on a dark and windy night, on the rooftop, after finishing the last of his wine, he jumped down, ending his life.
When Lin Hao's consciousness recalled up to this point, he suddenly felt intense pain. Some other fragments flashed through his mind. It seemed that after he jumped off the rooftop, many other things happened, but he just couldn't remember. Thinking about it made his head hurt.