[Period setting + dual rebirth and switched marriage partners + devoted, pure-hearted country bumpkin + doting husband + building wealth + face-slapping of awful people]
Her cousin staged a fake caught-in-the-act scandal, did whatever it took to steal her engagement to a prestigious educated youth from the provincial capital, then turned around and shoved her off on the butcher feared throughout the commune, the "Living Yama"!
Reborn, her cousin was convinced she'd stolen the script of a powerful official's wife who'd rise to riches, and smugly waited to see Su Xiuxiu tortured to death by the scarred-faced devil.
"You gave up the educated youth to marry a pig butcher. You'll spend the rest of your life guarding a stinking pigsty and begging in the mud!"
Su Xiuxiu scoffed inwardly, went along with the scheme to swindle the family heirloom iron cauldron, then decisively married into the butcher's family.
No future? Begging in the mud?
With thirty years' worth of top-tier experience as a food industry director in her previous life, plus her butcher husband's unwanted quota for offal, she had stumbled upon the most lucrative, cost-free business in the planned-economy era!
A handful of wood ash, two handfuls of coarse salt, and her exclusive secret braising sauce.
In the blink of an eye, stinking pig offal that would otherwise have gone to waste became a hot commodity. People lined up until their legs gave out, and it brought in a fortune every day!
Half a month later.
While her cousin and awful relatives gnawed on throat-scraping wild-vegetable gruel, anxiously waiting for the scumbag to make them rich...
The menacing brute who could break a thug's ribs with one punch and scare the village children to tears was squatting shyly by the kang bed like a big wolfdog, stammering as he offered a basin of hot water for her feet:
"W-Wife, I managed to save the tenderest cut of pork belly today. I-I stewed all of it for you."
By the time Su Xiuxiu had built a cross-regional industrial empire from discarded offal and was counting money until her hands cramped, her cousin, who'd fancied herself heaven's chosen daughter, had completely lost her mind, staring at her lying husband who'd pretended to be a high-ranking official's son...
