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Back to the 2000s: Raising My Deadbeat Dad

share time: 2025-11-28 06:02:58

Modern office worker Lin Xiaoman accidentally travels back to 2000 and encounters her 19-year-old "deadbeat dad" Lin Jianguo—a guy who loafs in arcades, lies to his family for money, and can’t even fend for himself. Yet this is the same man who’d later work three jobs to save for her college tuition? Xiaoman is forced into a "dad-raising quest": juggling part-time jobs to pay his game debts and nagging him to learn a trade, but the rebellious Jianguo keeps stirring trouble—getting chased by city management for selling pirated CDs, getting arrested for fighting, even hitting on the pretty barber shop girl next door! Just as Xiaoman’s on the brink of collapse from this "rebellious dad," she uncovers his hidden softness: mending her torn uniform secretly, running three blocks for medicine when she’s feverish. Turns out her dad wasn’t born a "failure"—his youth was just full of clumsy, unspoken warmth. And what Xiaoman doesn’t know? This trip back is her dad’s final wish: he wanted her to see he was once a boy who made mistakes, felt shy, not a "bad dad" from the start.

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