I, an Outsider by Marriage, Hold the Chen Family's Power

Reborn into a collateral branch of the Chen Group, a printing giant, He Xianjin relies on precise service plans, blockbuster products, and brand concepts to lead her core team through one comeback after another. In her second year as the group’s undisputed power behind the throne, her personal makeup artist, an elderly woman, advises her: “Ms. He, blush in that shade on your cheekbones looks too aggressive. It could scare away your romantic prospects.” He Xianjin doesn’t even look up. “Make it heavier.”

The industry’s number one annual oddity: Chen Group, a leading company with a monopoly on printing carriers for the central bank’s digital currency and a contract to print national-level credentials, is controlled by a woman with no blood ties to the family: the granddaughter of the old madam’s dowry maid.