From Then On, There Was No More Aying

At eighteen, I was kidnapped by a rival gang and taken to a dark alley. Shen Huaijin single-handedly stormed into the Green Dragon Gang's headquarters, chopping up the man who had injured me and feeding him to the fish in the Huangpu River. He was shot in the left eye and lost three fingers on his right hand, yet he still smiled at me with a bloodied mouth: "Aying, I said I would protect you for life." Later, to help me establish myself in Shanghai, he went to Southeast Asia to fight for five years. When he returned, he had become the leader of the Green Gang and, against all odds, married me. Until I bumped into his female student hiding in his annex at the Paramount Ballroom. She was wearing a brand-new brocade cheongsam, protecting her slightly protruding belly, and chuckled: "Huaijin said he would wait until I gave birth..."