Reborn in the 1990s: I Married a Martyr’s Orphan and Built a Family

Lin Xia was thirty-eight in her previous life, a project manager at an investment firm. She died from overwork, with no home and no children, and died completely alone.

Reborn in 1991 at the age of eighteen, in Linjiang County, she learns that her uncle plans to sell her to a local bully in exchange for construction funds.

She touches her still-young face and cries for just one minute.

Then she gets up and stakes everything on the greatest opportunity of the era, drawing on all the business savvy she gained over the twenty-eight years of her previous life.

First: treasury bonds. Three thousand yuan becomes twenty-one thousand. The whole village calls them waste paper, then watches as she counts out every last bill.

Second: a flash marriage. Her match is the son of Liang Sanxi, a fallen hero: poor as can be, but six-foot-one, broad-shouldered, straight-backed, and a man of his word.

She doesn't ask for much.

She just didn't expect to take on four kids along with the marriage.

One is a math genius, one a brawler, one a little clingy sweetheart, and then there's a boy who walked for three days from another province, carrying a brass bugle left behind by his brother. “My brother said that if I ever lost my way, I should look for Liang Sanxi's son.”

Later, a young master from the capital joins them, along with a strategist so composed it's frightening.

Five children of fallen heroes gather together, without ever making grand declarations.

Then, on a winter night, they drink a bottle of liquor that cost one yuan and eighty cents in front of their fathers' names. Jin Xiaokai raises his glass and says:

“If we're alive, we have to make sure their names are remembered.”

Lin Xia leads them in business, Liang Panpan leads them in fights, the children grow up day by day, and the factory expands step by step, until one day they uncover a secret that's been hidden for ten years:

What happened to the money meant for the families of fallen heroes?

This is a story of building a fortune, and an overdue reckoning.