Marrying the Boat Captain in the 1990s

Yu Ying has barely become a widow and returned home when her mother eagerly starts arranging a second marriage for her.

The man is thirty, has no parents, and is a lifelong bachelor. He’s a well-known shipowner in their area.

The shipowner makes money, and he spends it.

Yu Ying doesn’t want to marry a man like that, but she has no choice. Her late husband, who used to cherish her, went into massive debt trying to make a fortune.

If she can’t raise the money, her family will lose their house, and everyone will have to sleep on the streets.

As long as he isn’t ugly, money is all that matters.

Holding on to that thought, Yu Ying grits her teeth and goes to meet him.

At their first meeting, the shipowner is dressed in colorful clothes, with a thick gold chain around his neck. He looks at her and says, “Yu Ying?”

“Marry me, and I’ll take care of your debt. I’ll give you fifty thousand a month. On one condition: your daughter has to call me Dad. And I’m impotent, so I can’t give you what you want.”

Fifty thousand a month in living expenses just for getting married, and her daughter would have a stepfather, so nobody would call her a fatherless child anymore...

Yu Ying looks the man over. He’s a bit dark-skinned and dresses like a country bumpkin, a real nouveau riche. But he has a handsome face, is tall, and has a muscular build. He looks good but can’t perform, which means she won’t have to worry about a mistress.

That’ll do. A man who performs too well isn’t good either. The last one nearly drained her dry.

Yu Ying gets the marriage certificate. After they marry, she spends her days shopping and raising her daughter. She doesn’t have to exhaust herself taking care of a man, and life couldn’t be more carefree.

Then one day, the man suddenly wraps his arms around her waist from behind and says, “Yu Ying, I think I can perform now.”

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Jiang Sheng has worked hard away from home since he was young. After finally building up a fortune, he prepares to return home and get married, only to stumble upon someone else’s affair and be utterly disgusted.

A man has to save face, so even if he’s impotent, he still has to marry a wife.

He doesn’t want to ruin anyone’s life, so when he hears there’s a newly widowed woman on the next street, he sends a matchmaker to her home.

Jiang Sheng figures that he needs a wife in name only, while she needs money, so it’s a perfect arrangement.

But after they marry, the woman has no guard up around him because he’s impotent. She wanders in front of him every day in silk pajamas and thin skirts, and somehow he starts wanting her.

Reader advisory: 1. The male and female leads aren’t perfect. The heroine was transmigrated into this world as a fetus, and only later discovers she has transmigrated into a book, where she isn’t the protagonist.

2. This is a utopian novel where the male lead only performs for the female lead.

Theme: Love among the daily necessities of life