Twin Little Fortunate Princesses

A pair of twin boy-and-girl Fu Jins, bought to bring good fortune to a sickly young noble, became Zai Che’s deepest attachment and greatest weakness. They had identical faces but opposite, complementary souls, and both willingly allowed themselves to be “chained” to one man…

That twelfth lunar month, Beijing was shrouded in the unease of a dynasty in decline and the oppression of an old order collapsing. Snow fell in silence, and firecrackers sounded only sporadically. Against the absurd backdrop of the old custom of buying someone to bring good fortune clashing with modern civilization, a pair of commoner twins were sold to a declining Beile household and became the nominal “little Fu Jins” of the ailing young Beile, Zai Che. A cold silver chain bound the children’s fates to each other and tied them to this dying mansion. The new and the old, love and hatred, individual destinies and the changing tides of the times collided and intertwined, weaving a tangled tale of love and hate amid the upheavals of the early Republican era.