When she opened her eyes, Lin Wanqiu had gone from the owner of a chain of restaurants to a penniless young wife in 1985. Wind blew through the mud-brick house, the rice jar was empty, her three-year-old son cried with hunger, and her sister-in-law was demanding payment on a five-yuan IOU.
“I don’t have any money, but I’ve still got my life!”
Armed with her modern-day talent for making braised delicacies, she started with a bowl of pig offal, then moved from street stalls to a rented shop and eventually opened a chain, carving out a path to success in the gold-rush decade of the 1980s.
But why was her soldier husband, who had been away from home for three years, acting more and more strangely?
He shielded her from danger at the dinner table, quietly tucked her hair behind her ear at night, and handed over every last bit of his three years’ worth of military pay. He might be taciturn, but he protected her so thoroughly that no harm could reach her.
From having nothing to building a business empire, from polite companionship to hidden affection, Lin Wanqiu finally realized that the greatest golden finger of being reborn wasn’t her cooking skills. It was the man named Lu Jianguo.
[Reborn in the 1980s + Farming and Business + Marriage First, Love Later + Adorable Kid Plays Matchmaker + Taciturn, Tough Soldier vs. Sharp Businesswoman]
