Reborn in 2008: My Barbecue Stand Fed China's Billionaires

When Lu Guoliang wakes up in 2008 with a sick wife, a hungry baby, and empty pockets, his plan is simple: grill skewers by day, write web novels by night, survive. But after his rebirth story goes viral, the "reader meetup" at his humble barbecue stall takes a bizarre turn. Jack Ma is demanding extra lamb skewers. Liu Qiangdong is haggling over prices. That guy in glasses? Zhang Yiming, future tech mogul. Lu Guoliang wrote about building business empires as fiction—now China's future billionaires are treating his stall like a fortune-telling booth, and his throwaway plot points like investment…