In 1982, Jiang Wan was brought back as the real daughter, only to find no loving family waiting for her. Instead, her parents favored their adopted daughter, pressured her to give up her engagement, and planned to marry her off to an abusive widower in exchange for a bride price. It was a living hell from the start.
Jiang Wan refused to waste time feeling sorry for herself. She turned around, kicked open the door of the guesthouse, and caught the adopted daughter and her fiancé in bed together. After taking a thousand yuan as hush money and signing a severance agreement, she walked away without looking back. Carrying a fortune, she was cornered by thugs, only to run straight into Lu Ye, the notorious “factory tyrant” of the machine-repair plant.
“A thousand yuan for a dowry. Dare to get a marriage license with me?” She proposed decisively so she could make a life for herself. Lu Ye, who needed a wife to qualify for the plant’s staff housing, gave a scoff and took her straight to the marriage office.
She thought they were just teaming up to get by, but Jiang Wan discovered that this seemingly laid-back, rough-around-the-edges man was secretly a black-market genius who resold and assembled appliances. Lu Ye, meanwhile, realized that his new wife was making a fortune every day with her spicy braised-food stall.
Together, the two powerhouses swept all before them. Starting at the county night market, the couple took on troublemakers and put scoundrels in their place. By the time the fake heiress and her worthless fiancé’s family were behind bars, disgraced and ruined, they had already headed south to the Special Economic Zone and founded a household-name appliance brand. From black-market trader to multinational tycoon, the once-feared factory boss became the richest Chinese man in the world. At their wedding of the century, Lu Ye presented her with shares worth hundreds of billions: “Back then, you bought me for a thousand yuan. Now I’m giving you my entire fortune, and putting it in your name.”
