Thrown Out of Her Home, the Young Widow Fills Her Storeroom With Seafood

[Easygoing everyday warmth + deeply satisfying face-slapping + heartwarming romance] [Charming young widow x hard-as-nails master carpenter] [An ancient seaside foraging tale]

Shen Chaoshen is reborn on the morning her in-laws force her to press her fingerprint on the papers dividing the family property. They seize the three old houses and give her only a leaky woodshed. Her mother-in-law calls her bad luck, while her brother-in-law waits for her to starve to death.

In her previous life, she put up with it all until she jumped into the sea. This time, she smiles and fishes an old deed out from under the well curb. “I want the house. You can pay off the debt.”

Before anyone can react, someone at the village entrance shouts that a person has fallen into a sea trench.

Shen Chaoshen gathers her skirts and dives in to save them, coming up with a basket full of big sea snails and blue crabs.

Everyone says it's shameful for a woman to go out to sea. She simply turns the catch into hot soup, stir-fried snails, and seaweed jelly, then sells it at a stall by the town gate, where customers line up.

The shipwright Lu Yanzhou is completely smitten too. He fixes doors, repairs boats, and makes bamboo tubes. Anyone who says a bad word about her gets him riled up.

Later, everyone in Jiwang Village knows: Shen Chaoshen smiles sweetly on shore, but no one should mess with her at sea.