The Fake Heiress Strikes It Rich in a Fishing Village in the 1970s

Also known as: I Picked Up a Big Shot and Brought Him Home to Dry Fish [Period]

Blurb:

In the height of summer in 1979, Su Baiyu transmigrated into a Period novel as the fake heiress.

On the day the truth came out, the real heiress wept like a flower in the rain, her adoptive mother sighed over her hard fate, and her fiance avoided her eyes.

Everyone waited for her to fall to her knees and beg the Lin family to spare her.

But Su Baiyu tucked her enamel mug into her bundle and told them all,

"Thank you for your charity over the years. From now on, I want nothing more to do with any of you, including my former fiance."

She returned to the fishing village and moved into the rundown stone house her uncle had left her. The whole village waited to laugh at this "city girl."

Instead

She turned in a foreign torpedo, and the military came in with a loud fanfare to award her 3,000 yuan and a certificate of honor.

She never came back empty-handed from the shore: king crabs and wild large yellow croaker soon brought a Hong Kong merchant's buying station right to her doorstep.

When her former fiance, who had broken off their engagement, came representing his company to ask for a partnership, she only said coolly, "Sorry, I'm busy."

The villagers gradually noticed that there was always a man following her.

He was handsome and refined, gentle and dignified, yet willingly carried her buckets, held her umbrella, and fended off her admirers like a loyal dog who recognized only his master.

When asked about him, Su Baiyu only said, "I found him in the sea. His name is Ah Heng."

Then one day, a motorcade from one of Hong Kong City's most prominent families drove into the village, and a line of suited bodyguards dropped to their knees.

To the shock of the entire village, the well-behaved, gentle "Ah Heng" shielded Su Baiyu behind him, his gaze toward the visitors frighteningly cold.

Later, the front page of the Ta Kung Pao carried the headline:

The heir to Hong Kong City's He family returns after disappearing for five years, with Shenzhen's youngest female entrepreneur at his side.

Meanwhile, the real heiress who had once waited to see Su Baiyu humiliated, convinced that sneaking into Hong Kong City would make her a rich man's wife, had long since been cast aside. Now living in a rented room in Hong Kong City, she pointed at the people in the newspaper and screamed hoarsely:

"He's that smuggler who used to dry fish?! I've been looking for him for five whole years! I wanted to use him to get close to the He family. Why did Su Baiyu end up with everything?!"

Transmigration into a book vs. reborn

Decisive female lead vs. gentle, cunning male lead

Blurb screenshot: 2026/4/25 (Blurb revised, content unchanged)

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