In her previous life, ruthless businesswoman Shen Man is reborn as the ill-fated eldest daughter in an 1980s novel, sold by her scumbag father to an elderly widower in exchange for a bride price.
Accept her fate? Instead, she sends her scheming stepsister to the widower’s bed, grabs the family’s assets, and flees in the middle of the night! She heads south to trade goods and short the stock market, amassing a fortune in the 1980s with her merciless, family-be-damned approach.
From the start, she crosses paths with Huo Yan, a powerful man who commands both the underworld and the law, and is even more unhinged than she is. Shen Man coolly offers him a knife. “Want to work together? I’ll bring the brains, you bring your life.”
Later, her scumbag father goes to prison, and her enemies go bankrupt. Everyone calls Shen Man a wicked woman. But the notorious “Living Yama” presents her with a vast fortune and drops to his knees in obsessive devotion. “Manman, whoever messes with you, I’ll kill them.”
Shen Man curls her lips. “Good. Then let’s wreak havoc together and live a long, long life.”
