THE 80'S COFFEE QUEEN: REBORN AS A YOUNG WIDOW ===================
Rashi Leonita died once—
not as a villain, not as a heroine…
but as a woman who worked herself to the bone,
and still got nothing in return.
When she opens her eyes again, it's 1984.
She is young.
She is poor.
And she is already wearing the label the village hates the most:
A widow.
In this small coffee-growing village near the hills, being a widow doesn't mean grief.
It means blame.
It means whispers.
It means every smile is fake, and every kindness has a price.
They call her cursed.
They say her husband died because of her.
They say her presence will ruin the harvest.
They say she doesn't deserve to touch the family land—
especially not the coffee farm her husband left behind.
But Rashi remembers something they don't.
This isn't her first life.
And she knows exactly how the world works when you're a woman with no protection:
People don't destroy you with knives.
They destroy you with rumors, paperwork, and hunger.
So she stops begging.
Instead, she builds.
At dawn, she opens a tiny morning stall behind her old house—
one kettle, one tin of beans, and one secret weapon nobody expects from a "poor widow":
Her coffee tastes like victory.
And her signature bala-bala?
It sells out faster than the village dares to admit.
They pretend they hate her.
But they line up when no one is watching.
For the first time, Rashi earns money with her own hands.
For the first time, she feels power.
Until the real war begins.
Because her husband's death wasn't an accident.
And the coffee farm he left behind…
is worth more than the village ever told her.
The council wants her gone.
A land predator wants her signature.
Her "family" wants her to hand the farm back like she never mattered.
And then…
a man from the city arrives.
Greg Veralta—cold-eyed, sharply dressed, and dangerous in the quiet way.
A café entrepreneur who doesn't waste words, doesn't offer sympathy, and doesn't believe in "village stories."
He tastes her coffee once.
And the next thing Rashi knows,
he's looking at her like she's not just a widow—
but a product the world hasn't discovered yet.
"I want your beans," he says.
Rashi refuses.
So he leans closer, voice calm as a contract being signed.
"Then I'll buy everything around you… until you have no choice."
Rashi doesn't want a savior.
She doesn't want romance.
She doesn't want a man who thinks money can own her.
But the more she fights to protect her farm,
the more she realizes Greg isn't just chasing her coffee.
He's chasing the woman who refuses to break.
And in 1984…
love isn't the safest thing a widow can have.
It's the most dangerous.
Because if Rashi lets him in,
she might lose the one thing she swore to protect:
Her freedom.
And if she doesn't…
she might lose her empire before it even begins.
A reborn widow.
A coffee farm everyone wants to steal.
A village that wants her erased.
And a city man who doesn't know how to want something halfway.
In this life—
Rashi Leonita won't just survive.
She'll make them taste her success…
one cup at a time.
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