Reborn in the 1980s: I Became a Ten-Thousand-Yuan Household Through Woodcarving

Lu Shanhe was reborn.

He had returned to the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month in 1985, his wedding day.

His future mother-in-law had suddenly raised the bride price from 200 to 500 yuan and demanded the three big-ticket items as well. In his previous life, he had gritted his teeth and borrowed the money. The result was twenty years as a live-in son-in-law in the Liu family, who wrung every last drop of sweat and blood from him. His brother-in-law sold off his craft for next to nothing, his father died of an illness after selling blood, and his younger sister dropped out of school to gather herbs, then fell to her death from a cliff. As for Lu Shanhe, he died a wretched death in the woodshed, only learning on his deathbed that he had spent half his life raising another man's bastard.

This time, Lu Shanhe flipped the wedding table.

“I'm not going through with this wedding.”

As the whole village erupted in shock, he took his mother and sister by the hand and walked away.

No one knew that this carpenter, mocked as “too stupid from working,” should have become a master craftsman renowned across the land in his previous life. And no one knew that a pine-and-crane ornament he carved on a whim could prompt the county cultural relics shop's master craftsman to offer 80 yuan on the spot.

A year later, Lu Shanhe rode home in triumph on a motorcycle. His ex-wife, eyes red, asked to remarry him. He replied coolly, “I have your family to thank for pushing me like that. It finally woke me up.”

Before he had even finished speaking, a young woman from the city slipped her arm through his. “Uncle Chen wants to talk to you about setting up a factory.”

Lu Shanhe never looked back.

The 1980s and 1990s were full of golden opportunities, but all he wanted was to use his craft to give his family a better life.