For Love, For Gain

Name: For Love, For Gain
Author: Drinking Dew and Tilling Clouds

以爱，为利

by Drinking Dew and Tilling Clouds (饮露耕云)

Status: Completed
Length: 273k Words
Genre: Modern Romance
Subgenre: Period Fiction
Updated: 7mo ago
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From being used by others to taking control, from emotional dependence to self-alienation, the protagonist’s inner journey is itself a profound tale of how power transforms a person. She navigates the men who can decide her contracts, loans, and land, skillfully playing the roles of adoration, dependence, and infatuation, dressing up every intimate encounter as “love” or “a gift of fate.” At last, the men she once had to look up to are now beneath her feet or left behind. But she can no longer tell whether she is the climber who has finally reached the sunlight, or a vine that has long since changed beyond recognition and can no longer stand on its own.

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