Wangchuan Trading House: Three Fearless Women of the Capital

Xie Zhifou, the legitimate daughter of the third branch of the Minister of Personnel’s family, faked her death at the funeral hall of her late husband on the forty-ninth day after his death, hoping to withdraw from the world in peace. But the moment she sat up in her coffin, she realized that once someone had “died,” no one could bind her with etiquette anymore. She joined forces with two other women who had been trampled into the mud and opened the Wangchuan Trading Company, a business devoted to “serving women discarded by the rules of propriety.” Before long, she had turned the capital’s ancestral halls, the Ministry of Rites, and the Chastity Archway Appraisal Office upside down.