Reborn in the 1970s: My Tough Husband Loves Me with His Life

In her previous life, Jiang Nianwei didn’t learn until she was dying that the man she had called “Uncle” for twenty years was no blood relative at all. She was the Jiang family’s adopted “medicine vessel,” a living blood bank meant to keep Jiang Linglan, frail and sickly, alive. At eighteen, she was forced into an arranged marriage. She resented Lu Yandong her whole life, despising his limp, his taciturn nature, and his inability to give her the life she wanted. Later, she left everything behind to be with Chen Zihang, only to have her organs cut out of her while she was still alive on the operating table.

In her final moments, she saw Lu Yandong barge into the hospital, leaning on his cane. She saw him reach out to her with bloodshot eyes, and heard him rasp, “Niannian.”

When she opened her eyes again, she was back at eighteen. In the main room, Zhou Guifen’s sneer was the same, Jiang Linglan’s tears were the same, and Jiang Yongshou was still counting his gains. Jiang Nianwei calmly listened to them pressure her into the arranged marriage. Then she walked over, picked up the teacup on the table, and splashed a whole bowl of cold water in Jiang Linglan’s face.

“You want me to take her place? Fine. Jiang Linglan can bow to me three times first.”

Everyone expected her to marry him and spend her life as a widow in all but name. Instead, she linked arms with her lame husband and built a life so enviable that no one in the village could hope to measure up. She opened a soy sauce factory, worked the black market, secured permits, and built a corporation. Starting with a single iron pot at the village entrance, she forged a business empire. And the husband she had once “looked down on” had been the youngest chief engineer at a national munitions factory when she died in her previous life.

In this life, she will protect him and tell him to his face: Lu Yandong, this time, I’ll cherish you with my life.