Eighties Coastal Foraging: After a Marriage Swap, I Marry a Rough-Heen and Become the Island's Richest

[Period Setting] [Marriage Swap] [Beachcombing] [Building Wealth]

After my cousin was reborn, she stole my fiance and forced me to marry an old bachelor instead.

I turned around and went to the stingiest man in the village. "Would you dare marry me?"

He sneered. "A hundred yuan for the bride price. How are you going to pay me back?"

During a typhoon, I risked my life beachcombing. He hauled me ashore, his eyes red.

I held up a Melo pearl. "This is my dowry. Is it enough?"

He scolded me for not valuing my life, but the next day he rode his motorcycle over to propose.

The whole village laughed at me for marrying a poor man.

They didn't know I had extensive knowledge of marine life. I understood the tides and knew where the fish gathered. While everyone else only caught crabs when beachcombing, I picked up gold coins.

After we married, I taught him how to sell seafood and earn our first fortune. He broke the rule that women couldn't go aboard ships for my sake.

Later, I built a processing plant, while he assembled a fleet to handle shipping;

I leased tidal flats for aquaculture, while he built a pier and a boardwalk;

The whole village escaped poverty alongside us, and we could buy grand houses and luxury cars at will!

My cousin struggled through hard times with her scumbag husband. When she saw me become the richest person on the island, jealousy drove her mad!

I stood on a ten-thousand-ton cargo ship and laughed: "Who told