The Abandoned Wife Awakens in the Fifties

Please support my new book: "Returning to The 1980s with a System That Makes Me Spend Money to Build My Hometown" When other people transmigrate or are reborn in the 1980s, they work hard to make money. Thanks to the System, when Wang Baozhen returns to the 1980s, all she has to think about every day is how to spend money. In her past life, poverty and the hopelessness of living in the mountains led her and her siblings to be tricked into leaving for "work" and sold. The Wang family was torn apart, with loved ones dead and gone, and decades later, Ping'an Village was still one of the most notorious poor villages in the province. This time, she's going to use her golden finger to build roads, bridges, schools, and factories, develop agriculture, and lead her hardworking, honest neighbors in building a prosperous village of their own. Story blurb (1) Chen Zhifan's life was full of hardship. At five, she was kidnapped and sold to the Zhang family, where she was beaten and cursed at. Later, the Zhangs sent her to work as a kitchen maid for a landlord's wife, earning a small monthly wage. Luckily, she was clever enough to catch the head cook's eye and learn how to cook. At eighteen, she married Zhang Liudong, the Zhang family's only son. Three days after the wedding, he disappeared while attending a temple fair. People said bandits had kidnapped him. Branded a jinx who had killed her husband, Chen Zhifan gave birth to a daughter and continued slaving away for her parents-in-law. At last, liberation came. Zhang Liudong hadn't died after all. He returned as a rich man, riding a fine horse. Everyone in the village said Chen Zhifan had finally made it through her hard times. Little did they know that the scoundrel came back and immediately asked for a divorce. His mistress's son was already three years old! The shameless man wanted a divorce without moving out, and ordered Chen Zhifan to nurse his mistress after childbirth. Chen Zhifan had been raised to believe everything she was told, but at this critical moment she went through a brush with death. A soul from somewhere else tried to take over her body. She fought with all her might to survive, and woke with a memory that wasn't hers in her mind. Having seen the wonderful society of the future, Chen Zhifan decides to flip the table and quit playing by their rules. She'll get divorced and leave, and make them give back everything they took from her. Chen Zhifan, driven mad by years of oppression, discovers that once you get fierce, the mountains look greener, the waters clearer, and wicked people make the most satisfying crying faces. (2) Ye Mao was born into a distinguished family. He grew up following the rules, studying and learning the arts, then married and had children. Every part of his life was controlled by his parents. Then the country fell into chaos, and his wife, born into an esteemed family, decided to make a fortune through dirty dealings and flee overseas with the family wealth. Unable to accept this, Ye Mao calmly set his wife free, then cast aside his writing brush, joined the military, and went to war. Later, when he was trapped and in dire straits, he met a bold, beautiful woman. At the risk of her own life, she outmaneuvered the enemy and rescued him. Clever, quick-witted, patriotic, righteous, and stunningly beautiful, she captured Ye Mao's heart at once. The problem was, she was married. When they met again, she held chili powder in her left hand and a cleaver in her right, glaring fiercely at a sharp-faced man. "Take one more step and see what happens! Believe me, I'll give you a sky burial today. I'll make sure the crows in the woods don't leave a scrap of your meat behind." When Ye Mao learns she's kicked her worthless ex-husband to the curb, he refuses to let her go. He whisks her away to help him build up an island. (3) Ye Mao was leading a team on a mission when one of the young soldiers who had always followed him was badly injured. Before going into the operating room, the soldier thought he wasn't going to make it. He kept muttering, "I died for my country. Mom and Dad will be proud of me. It just hurts, Captain. They say the Manchu-Han Imperial Feast is the best food there is, but I'll never get to try it. You'll have to try it for me someday." Chen Zhifan was heartbroken. She shoved Ye Mao aside and, her eyes red, said to the young soldier, "You have to hold on. Your sister-in-law will make you one of the dishes from the Manchu-Han Imperial Feast. You can eat it when you wake up." Her master had taught her how to make his signature dishes, but told her there was no point learning them, since no one was worthy of eating them anymore. Chen Zhifan had been indignant at the time, but hadn't argued. Now she gazed across the boundless sea and said softly, "Master, these soldiers who defend our country deserve the very best." Later, Chen Zhifan used Chen Shisi's ability to grow vegetables on the island, cultivate seeds to distribute to the other islanders, and make one delicious dish after another using the skills her master had taught her. Their lives flourished. Coming next: "The Little Widow Next Door Is Making Another Fortune [The 1980s]" A soldier with crushing debt, little money, and a tight fist, but who can do any job imaginable, vs. a gorgeous, flirtatious woodworking expert who loves to be lazy. Li Xingran goes to deliver compensation to the family of a militia comrade who died in action, only to stumble upon a family drama: a father-in-law is trying to drive his widowed daughter-in-law to her death so his son's lover can inherit the estate. The pale, gaunt young widow clutches her child and begs him, sobbing, to intervene. Since she's the family of a fallen soldier, Li Xingran takes pity on her and brings her to a village near his unit to settle her there. He never expects that, as he looks after her, he'll end up giving her his heart. Hua Yu lost her mother at eight and her father at ten. She grew up as a dependent in her uncle's home, and when she was old enough to be married off, they took a bride price and sent her to the penniless He family. He Kun apprenticed under a carpenter, but he was hopelessly slow. Hua Yu could master a skill after watching it once, while he couldn't learn it after ten tries. Unable to bear living on coarse food, she secretly did his work for him. Just as the family's life was getting better, He Kun and his father started causing trouble. He Kun got involved with the widow who had just moved in next door, but fate had other plans: He Kun died. Hua Yu wasn't especially heartbroken. She planned to raise her child on her own, but then her father-in-law teamed up with two shameless people to steal the compensation and family property. Hua Yu knew she couldn't stay in that house, so she had no choice but to cling to the comrade who had delivered the compensation and beg him for a letter of introduction so she could escape that den of wolves. The People's Liberation Army comrade is wonderful in every way: tall, long-legged, strong, handsome, and blessed with a lovely voice. He can do any dirty or tiring job, but he's poor and stingy, and even in his thirties he can't find a wife. When the two marry, nobody thinks it'll work out. Everyone assumes Hua Yu is doomed to spend her life crushed by Li Xingran's debts. No one expects that after they wed, he will treasure Hua Yu and her daughter like precious gems. Whenever he's home, he won't let them lift a finger, inside or out. The mother and daughter enjoy a life where clothes are brought to them and meals are served. Everyone watches them buy all-new furniture, then the four big household appliances, a bicycle, a television, and more and more houses... Theme: Boundless love, building a home