In the 1980s, She Reaped the Sea: The Miserly Eldest Sister Is Reborn

Fisherwoman x Town Chief | Pride and Prejudice | Coastal Foraging, Food, and Farming | Period Novel

In her previous life, Jiang Yu was a miser. She was stingy not only with herself, but also with her younger siblings, never giving them a single cent.

Later, her eldest younger brother was framed for smuggling over 10 yuan and spent ten years in prison. Her older younger sister feared being dragged down by the family and hurriedly married, only to suffer domestic abuse after the wedding. Her youngest sister lied about her age and went to work at an electronics factory in the south at just fourteen. Their parents died one after another from the shock, and the family fell apart with ease.

For years afterward, Jiang Yu wondered again and again if she had failed to look after her siblings, if she had failed in her duty as their eldest sister.

Reborn in 1984, before tragedy could strike, her family was still safe and sound.

She would no longer be a miser. She would save her family.

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At the Moon Bay Village pier stands a little fishing shack eatery, with a different menu every day.

What they eat each day depends on what the owner finds while foraging along the shore.

Seafood fish noodles, purple rice with sea urchin, crab hot pot, salt-baked mantis shrimp

Fresh seafood cured in salt, seafood vermicelli casserole, oyster omelet, sea intestine rice

The food is delicious, and the proprietress is graceful and slender, with a well-proportioned figure. Even her coarse cotton blouse cannot hide her delicate, lovely beauty.

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One day, a deputy town chief in charge of poverty alleviation was suddenly assigned to Linshui Town. Rumor had it that he came from a distinguished family, had an outstanding education, and was tall and handsome.

A week later, Town Chief Lu Cong arrived for a meeting.

The town government staff confirmed:

"The rumors are true!"

Lu Cong was aloof and handsome, proper in his conduct, and always wore a crisp shirt and trousers with sharp creases.

Everyone said the young master from the capital had come to polish his credentials. Once he had a little political achievement to his name, he would surely be off in a flash.

Only Jiang Yu knew that this young master who was supposed to be "off in a flash" would make a great success of poverty alleviation and rise steadily through the ranks, eventually reaching the provincial Party Committee.

Jiang Yu and Lu Cong were betrothed as children.

In her previous life, she had foolishly dreamed of spending her life with him.

But he leaned back in his chair, regarding her with a gaze so frank it was cruel:

"How can an eagle keep company with a sparrow?"

"Comrade Jiang Yu, you are wonderful, but you cannot keep up with the road I must take. And I have no habit of waiting for anyone. Please go."

Before their families could discuss the marriage again in her new life, Jiang Yu took the initiative to break off the engagement and keep her distance from him.

Who knew that during a poverty-alleviation visit, she would catch a chill and come down with a high fever, dizzy and barely conscious?

The usually restrained and indifferent Lu Cong lost all composure.

He held her protectively in his arms, coaxing her softly again and again:

"Be good, A Yu. Don't fall asleep."

Even as he bowed his head and yielded to her, the little sparrow did not want to touch a single feather of his.

After that, she ran and he pursued.

She was cold and distant, while he pressed closer at every step.

The man who had once fancied himself an eagle, disdaining the company of sparrows, eventually willingly entered the lively world of the fishing village, to stand by her and walk the same road.

Theme: Even a little sparrow should stand on her own