Rebirth in the 1980s: Dumping the Parasite Wife to Marry a Mute Beauty

Set against the backdrop of rural life in the 1980s, the story follows Lu Chuan as he wakes up in the body of Lu Dashan, a village fool. His ex-wife, Fang Yi, has just passed the university entrance examination and reported the Lu family for an arranged marriage, demanding a divorce while leaving Lu Chuan saddled with three hundred yuan in debt. Coupled with a poor harvest, the family lacks even the grain to survive the winter. Driven by desperation, Lu Chuan arranges for his father, Lu Dashan, to move in with Aunt Ju, only to discover that Aunt Ju's mute daughter, Liu Xiaoran, has secretly been in love with him for years. Consequently, both father and son move in as dependent sons-in-law. To clear the debts, forty-year-old Lu Dashan and Huang Ju head to the county town to work, leaving Lu Chuan and Liu Xiaoran behind to build a life together. Refusing to live an ordinary and impoverished life, and inspired by his devoted mute wife's loving gaze, Lu Chuan vows to bring prosperity to his household. Starting by training a neighbor's dog—transforming it into an alpha pack leader that commands all the village dogs—Lu Chuan heads into the mountains on the very first day and successfully hunts a wild boar. This initial success earns him the village chief's backing, along with an old hunting rifle, and the assistance of local bully Shuanzi to establish a village hunting team. From then on, every mountain expedition and fishing trip yields a rich harvest. Leveraging these bounties, Lu Chuan navigates the reforms of the opening-up era to earn his first pot of gold, ultimately becoming the village's first ten-thousand-yuan household. When his parents return from the county town after the Lunar New Year to find a newly built brick bungalow, they are left utterly astounded, wondering how their foolish son managed to achieve such a feat.