The Yu Dongqing Principle

At twenty-eight, Yu Dongqing wields the authority of the youngest director at the North China branch of Meng Group, yet she remains trapped in the bottomless pit of her family. When her father, his mistress and her daughter, along with the boyfriend she had finally opened her heart to and his mother, all appear in the hospital room, putting on a painfully “heartwarming” display, Yu Dongqing holds a silent funeral outside the door. Buried there are her fantasies of family bonds, her hopes for love, and the last trace of weakness she had left for the world. As calm as a still, deep sea, she lays down the rules herself. She makes use of everything to turn her father and his mistress against each other, uses his own hand to make the mother and daughter pay in blood, and personally sends her biological father to prison.

Her father’s lies and schemes, and her mother’s weakness and demands, once bound her tightly to the cross of family ties like two icy chains. And the people she had been supporting were her father’s mistress and the mistress’s daughter.

Yang Mingyu’s eyes brimmed with pain. “Dongqing, I’m sorry… I never meant to hurt you.”

Yu Dongqing smiled. “Those three words are probably the most boring and useless thing in the world…”

This is not a story about a powerful heroine turning her life around. It is a survival experiment in which a woman rebuilds herself amid the ruins, guided by absolute rationality and an unyielding will. A cold, unflinching account of how she crowns herself with scars and wisdom.