A ’70s Fisherwoman Cuts Ties and Raises a Child, So Why Is the Village Doctor Blushing?

[The 1970s] [Tidepool foraging] [Cuts ties with family and strikes it rich] [Adorable child, doted on by everyone] [Pure-hearted village doctor]

When Huo Chaosheng opens her eyes, she’s become a “burden” in the 1970s, treated like a pack mule by her family.

Her useless father and cruel stepmother have pocketed every work point she earned over eighteen years.

She gives a cold laugh, slaps a severance agreement on the table, and walks away!

Outside, she finds a toddler clutching a giant clam in a gap between the rocks and casually hauls in thirty pounds of wild lobster.

And so, the fiercest fisherwoman on Reef Island is born!

While others scour the shore for worthless seashells, she dives straight into a deep pool and plucks out abalones with nine holes using her bare hands!

While others fear the crashing waves, she slaps the water once, sending oysters tumbling down in neat rows and dragging out a hundred-pound giant grouper along with them!

Her grasping relatives show up, green with envy, trying to claim kinship.

Huo Chaosheng crushes a giant clam in one hand. “Family? You think you qualify?”

The whole island assumes no one would dare marry this tough, self-made tycoon, until the aloof, chaste village doctor arrives with steaming ginger soup, his ears red. “Chaosheng, drink this... I’ll cook for you and the little one.”