[Republican-Era Romance + Forbidden Love + Sweet-and-Angsty Push and Pull + Warlord Romance + Mutual Redemption]
“Second Uncle, why are you looking at me like that? Are you going to inspect the goods for Mingyuan?”
In 1935, at Shanghai's most sensational wedding, the wind lifted one corner of Su Qingyun's red bridal veil.
She saw her husband's opium pipe, still reeking of drink,
and the wolfish gaze behind her brother-in-law Xu Chenzhou's glasses.
Everyone said the young madam of the Shen family was gentle and virtuous,
but no one knew that every night she recorded in her diary:
where her husband's opium came from,
the code to her brother-in-law's German pocket watch,
and... why the dates in the lower-right corners of those sketches
all marked major turning points in her life.
When Mingyuan gambled away his last silver dollar,
when Chenzhou pinned her before The Lady of the Camellias and said:
“Does this cage-like water remind you of our relationship?”
Su Qingyun finally drew the silver hairpin from her hair.
It could open the Shen family's safe,
and pierce a man's throat.
It's a well-written text
I really like this kind of writing,