The Nineties Guide to Getting Rich

When Shen Tang transmigrated, the original owner had just been shoved to the ground by her gambling-addict husband. She hit the back of her head on the doorstep and died.

She opened her eyes to find her mother-in-law, Liu Guixiang, standing over her with her hands on her hips. “Quit pretending to be dead! Get up and cook!”

Shen Tang took in one thing at a time: she had gone from being a marketing manager earning 200,000 yuan a year to a twenty-one-year-old rural wife.

Her husband was a gambling addict, her mother-in-law a nasty shrew, and her brother-in-law a parasite. The family was so poor they could barely scrape by.

When Li Jianguo came home drunk and tried to hit her, she snatched up the kitchen knife and brought it down on the chopping board. “Touch me again, and I’ll chop you up.”

Li Jianguo sobered up halfway and stormed off, cursing.

Shen Tang knew that the knife had bought her some peace, but she couldn’t rely on it forever.

She needed money. Only then could she leave.

She sold eggs for a dime more than everyone else. She went out to dig for herbs, then made the trip to the county seat alone to secure a long-term purchasing contract.

While everyone else was still scratching a living from the soil, she was already turning the wild self-heal plants on the back hill into cash.

In one month, she saved over a hundred yuan.

Li Jianguo owed 3,000 yuan in gambling debts. Liu Guixiang was frantic, and soon turned her attention to Shen Tang instead:

Zhang Laoliu from the neighboring village was willing to pay 2,000 yuan for a wife.

Liu Guixiang took the down payment.

Shen Tang had only three days left.

Either she paid off the 3,000 yuan, or she would be sold.

She had one way out, and it led beyond the village.

The three-day countdown had begun.

Whether she could escape depended on whether she was ruthless enough!