Rebirth: Gathering the Lost

Bu Hui Shuo HuaJinjiang Literature City

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460K words

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Featured Fiction Social FictionPeriod Fiction Rural LifeRomanceUrban RomanceFirst LoveRomantic ThreadsRebirthGender Disguise80 Years10th Century

Summary

When modern-day college senior Tu Xiaoyan wakes up, she finds her soul transmigrated into the body of Tu Yuquan, a rural teenage boy in the 1980s—none other than her own father. The family is destitute, her grandparents are simple, honest folk, and there is a young sister in the household. While adapting to a rustic life steeped in local dialect and to her male identity, she draws on her foresight to spot business opportunities. Starting with selling balloons and running a storefront, she gradually builds wealth through commerce and takes on the responsibility of supporting the family. Meanwhile, the gender displacement gives rise to romantic entanglements, and the protagonist must choose between two first loves, ultimately achieving fulfillment in both career and love.

Editor's review

A period rebirth novel steeped in rural flavor with a striking female-to-male transmigration setup; its strengths are authentic period details, vivid dialect, and a get-rich storyline close to real life, suited to readers who enjoy slow-burn farming and period atmosphere. The weaknesses are clear: dense dialect raises the reading barrier, conflicts are few and the protagonist's path is smooth, leaving plenty of satisfaction but little dramatic tension, and the later romance narrows its appeal for some readers.

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Reading tips

  1. Read the first few chapters to adapt to the dialect and rural narrative rhythm before deciding to continue.
  2. Focus on the stages of the protagonist's business success; read it as period slice-of-life rather than a business-war power fantasy.
  3. Readers sensitive to romance preferences should learn about the female-to-male and male-male setup before starting.

About the publisher

Jinjiang Literature City

Jinjiang Literature City focuses on publishing online literature. Its catalog covers categories such as premium fiction, time-travel and alternate-history fiction, ancient romance, women's fiction, modern romance, and quality web fiction, reflecting a sustained interest in women-oriented reading and genre storytelling. Representative titles include Splendid Years, Where Do the Swallows of the Old Home Fly, The Starlight in My Pen Is Not as Good as You, Song of Mortals, Lin Daiyu the Great Writer, Fake Slackers, and Judge of the Soul, spanning both historical settings and contemporary themes. Authors include Lingxi Gezhu, Nanfang Chihuo, Xiaomeng Zhihuansheng, Dajiang Mingyue, Lumenke, Muguahuang, Tuige, and Ziwei Liunian, whose works often built readership through online serialization. Public information on its founding background and scale is limited, so this profile presents its publishing characteristics based only on the catalog.

FAQ

What is this book about? A modern young woman travels back in time and becomes her own father in the 1980s, using her future knowledge to build a business fortune and resolve her romantic fate.
Is the ending a comedy? Yes, the author labels it HE (happy ending); the protagonist achieves fulfillment in both career and love.
Is there a barrier to reading it? Yes, the main text contains a lot of dialect, and some readers report finding it hard to understand.
Is it completed? The main text is complete at about 460,000 characters, with additional extras.

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About the author

Bu Hui Shuo Hua Author

Bu Hui Shuo Hua is the author's name; the English name is rendered as Bu Hui Shuo Hua, while nationality and dates of birth and death are not clearly recorded, and publicly available information is limited. The library currently holds one work by this author, the representative novel Rebirth: Picking Up the Lost, commonly categorized under premium fiction, period fiction, and social fiction. From these limited clues, the author's writing appears to draw on a period setting and social life, using a rebirth narrative to interweave characters' fates with historical change, with a tendency toward realistic texture and everyday detail. Because there is no supporting material on the author's life, creative statements, or further works, a full assessment of style, creative development, and social influence is difficult; only a preliminary outline based on the existing title is possible. Readers wishing to know this author may begin with Rebirth: Picking Up the Lost and use the category tags to grasp its general orientation.