When Shen Lin, a university student in London, hears that her older sister is dead, she abandons her studies and rushes to Saigon. There, she is forced to take over the three nightclubs, two massage parlors, and one KTV her sister left behind. Everyone thinks she is a naive pushover, someone they can bully, humiliate, and force into giving up her virtue. Gritting her teeth, she struggles through the mire with one thing on her mind: revenge for her sister.
But the charred body in the morgue is missing the jade ring her sister never took off. A name crossed out in a photograph, a huge sum vanishing from the account books, and Sister Xiu’s warning, “You have to stay alive before you can learn the truth.” Every clue points in one direction: her sister’s death was no accident.
She thinks she is hunting for a killer. She has no idea that a debt she incurred in London three years ago is now coming after her from across the ocean. And the truth is more cruel than she imagined, and closer than she thinks.
The closer she gets to the truth, the more she realizes she is becoming someone else. When the man from London appears on the streets of Saigon, Shen Lin finally understands: her life was never her own.
On Saigon’s steamy, bustling streets, amid the scents of jasmine and gasoline, a girl’s revenge is about to uncover a shocking secret of betrayal, deception, and fate.
