I Raise a CEO in the Rice Paddies

She was the famous “Lobster Goddess” of her hometown, the kind of woman who could roll up her pants and work in the fields, then pick up a glass and close a business deal.

He was an investor who could move markets with a flick of his wrist, always immaculate in a suit and ruthless in business. He’d come back especially to acquire her company.

No one knew that eight years ago, amid the rice blossoms on a country field path, they had promised themselves to each other for life.

“I’m buying your company. It’s happening.”

“Go ahead and try. Let’s see whether your money is stronger or my land is.”

From the negotiating table to the muddy fields, from business battles to life-and-death crises, Jiang Wei somehow “raised” the ex-boyfriend who’d come to acquire her into her most steadfast ally.

But there was another man at her side, whose eight years of devotion and willingness to risk his life to save her in a flood made her waver for the first time.

On one side was the first love she’d lost and found again. On the other was a confidant who had faced life and death alongside her.

One was a blazing passion far away; the other, steady ground beneath her feet.

In the end, would she choose the one who made her heart race, or the one who let her sleep in peace?

In my rice paddies, I raised more than just shrimp. I raised a CEO, too, and found the answer I’d been waiting eight years for.