The Blazing Heiress: Your Canary Is Tearing Down Her Cage

When Li Weiwei’s high heel stomped Su Ran’s canvas bag into a puddle of filthy water, the smart community proposal was sitting inside Li’s Hermès bag. The heir to the Su family conglomerate, Su Ran had concealed her identity and spent three months fetching tea and water at one of its subsidiaries. At last, she had the evidence that her boss had switched out the bid’s reserve price.

“Someone with only three degrees thinks she can talk about strategy?” Su Ran tore open her faded shirt, revealing the distinctive eagle-shaped birthmark of the heir, then slapped down the records of the million-yuan kickbacks Li Weiwei had taken at the group’s audit meeting.

Gu Huaizhi, a legal expert back from Wall Street, “just happened” to show up, leaning against a fire hydrant as he filmed her beating up some thugs. “The old man said the heir’s evaluation doesn’t allow vigilante justice.”

When her uncle sent men to sink her mother’s belongings in international waters, Gu Huaizhi tossed her a rope from the deck. “The old man told me to keep an eye on you, so you don’t do something reckless like blowing up a vault again, like you did when you were seven.” On a stormy night, the two pried open a metal chest 30 meters below the surface. Gu Huaizhi’s severed oxygen hose wound around Su Ran’s neck, and amid the current, she saw a burn identification number on the back of his neck, matching the one on the young boy soldier in her mother’s old photograph.

The moment the screens of a New York short-selling firm lit up, Su Ran doused the fake ledger with Moutai. As her lighter sparked, Gu Huaizhi’s bulletproof coat was already wrapped around her back. In the flames, drifting ashes formed the original text of her mother’s will. The woman who had been driven to her death in a nursing home had prepared, twenty years earlier, the spark her daughter needed to burn down the cage of capital.

On the day a bronze statue of a stray cat was welded onto the stock exchange’s bronze bull, Su Ran snapped the Su family scepter in two. “The canary’s funeral will be held by the rules of the phoenix.”