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When the Neon Sign Lights Up, She Clutches Their Marriage Certificate and Falls Into His Arms
In the summer of 1988, a military jeep crushed the sunlight outside the convenience store.
Lin Xiaoman clutched a fake marriage certificate she had traded ration coupons for and looked up into Jiang Han’s ice-cold eyes.
She counted every coin; he calculated people’s hearts. She begged the factory for a way to survive; he plotted a business empire.
When a military supply list and divorce papers were flung onto the wooden bed, a hurricane swept through the harbor city, where undercurrents had been building. Smuggling boats tore open a breach in the reforms, and a double set of books turned up in a military warehouse. Meanwhile, the man who always wrapped her in his uniform pressed his gun against the small of her trembling back. “Mrs. Jiang, it’s time to close the net.” Two trapped beasts who had spent half their lives scheming in the steel jungle finally found warmth in each other amid the surging tides of reform.
