Wang Xuanyi, the top powerhouse of the mystic sects, fails her tribulation and wakes up as a frail, sickly female educated youth in an 1980s northern forestry camp, where everyone bullies her.
Her stepmother wants to trade her for a bride price? Wang Xuanyi turns the tables with a bad-luck talisman, making her stepmother’s family suffer one disaster after another.
The village bully tries to take advantage of her? She takes down three strongmen with her bare hands and casually sees that his ancestral grave is leaking water.
To get a decent meal in an era when even buying meat requires ration coupons, Wang Xuanyi returns to her old trade and sets up a fortune-telling stall on the black market.
That is, until Chen Han, head of the county public security squad, comes to see her. “Fortune-teller, I hear you can find the missing female worker from the brick kiln?”
Wang Xuanyi holds up three slender fingers. “Three big bills and ten jin of pork belly coupons. No credit.”
From then on, everyone at the forestry camp knows that the cold, ruthless Captain Chen has become a henpecked husband. Every day after work, he not only has to bring his sweet, delicate wife water to wash her feet, but also hand over every last bit of money and ration coupons after she searches him from head to toe, all for the chance to hear her say, “What a good boy.”
I love this kind of stuff, it's nice to look at, every detail is neat, and it's not cluttered. I highly recommend it.
Make a mark. I've read this book.