Reborn in the 1980s: Riches from the Sea After Divorce

About the story

Reborn into her life as a fisherman’s wife, Fu Wan faces in-laws who covet a fish pearl the size of a pigeon’s egg. Obeying his mother, her husband Shen Dongsheng personally holds her down in a water vat, trying to force her to spit it out. In this desperate moment, Fu Wan, who has swallowed the pearl, gains the ability to breathe underwater. Seizing her chance, she resists in public, decisively divorces him and takes her daughter Shen Lingling and the compensation money back to her struggling birth family. Her father has died at sea, her older brother is bedridden after a severe ray sting, and the family can barely make ends meet. She must also face the villagers’ prejudice and gossip about women going out to sea. Refusing to bow to fate, Fu Wan relies on the pearl’s special power, puts on her ancestral jiaoyi garment and ventures into the ocean, gathering seafood, fishing and salvaging marine catches to earn money for her brother’s treatment.