When he was twelve years old, Shen Zhaoning hid in a dry well, listening to the sounds of swords, cries, and fires outside, until dawn.
The 317 members of the Shen family disappeared overnight. The court's charge was "rebellion," but Shen Zhaoning knew that her father did not commit rebellion. Her uncle did not rebel. There are more than 300 people in the Shen family, and not one of them has rebelled. They were just too rich, so rich that they accounted for one-fifth of the court's annual income; they were just too powerful, so powerful that the regent couldn't sleep at night. The salt merchants paid 300,000 taels of silver, the Shanxi merchants paid 300,000 taels, the Governor of Water Transport sealed the road, the Minister of Household Affairs took possession of the family property, and the General of the Beijing Camp led troops - and the third eldest son of the Shen family, her third uncle, handed over the Shen family's defense plans and account books.
Ten years later, a new silk and satin shop called Su Ji opened in Gulou, Beijing. The owner is a young woman, her surname is Su, and her last name is the character Heng. She is genuine in her business and is gentle and courteous to others. No one knows that her other name is Shen Zhaoning. She spent ten years polishing herself into a knife - she has a photographic memory for accounting, is proficient in business calculations, is good at poisoning and criminal law, and has a smiling face that makes everyone think she is a "nice person". What she wants is not to kill her enemies with one knife, but to cut them off one by one, so that those people can watch everything they own - money, industry, reputation, life - be lost one by one.
This is a long revenge. No love, no soft-heartedness, no turning back. There was only one girl who crawled out of the dry well. She gritted her teeth and crossed out the names of her enemies from the book one by one.
Reader comments
The writing is warm and eloquent🌺
It's a very interesting book. There are no quarrels, slapstick, or procrastination. It's just like telling a story. It's very interesting and I recommend it! Worth a visit…
The writing is warm and eloquent🌺
It's a very interesting book. There are no quarrels, slapstick, or procrastination. It's just like telling a story. It's very interesting and I recommend it! Worth a visit…