A Capitalist from the Start? I Turned in My Own Father and His Entire Fortune

“Miss Shen, the great northwest is nothing but endless sand. Can those legs of yours, clad in imported silk stockings, take it?” Gu Xiuming’s tall frame blocked the Jeep door, his warm breath brushing her ear.

Shen Nianzhou slapped the share-transfer agreement in her hand against his chest and gave a coquettish huff. “Commissioner Gu, don’t trouble yourself. I’d give up my life, let alone this lousy Western-style mansion. Whoever wants it can have it!”

After waking up in 1951 as the heiress to Shanghai’s largest textile mill, Shen Nianzhou knew exactly what to do: if she didn’t get rid of the assets and flee fast, the whole family would be doomed the following year.

Using the enormous bomb shelter unlocked by her family’s ancestral jade thumb ring, she made a show of one thing while secretly doing another, taking every last gold bar and antique and leaving not even the core machine tools behind. She traded her Suzhou-embroidered qipao for homespun clothes. Watch this glamorous heiress take charge of a tough military officer, kindle passion amid the desert sands, and build the nation’s most vital machinery!