Zhang Youyi woke on the cold floor and realized she was back in Shaston, in the winter of 1921.
Outside the window lay the mist of an English winter. In her belly was a three-month-old baby. Before her stood the man who was about to tell her to “get rid of the child.” In her previous life, she had cried, pleaded, and endured, only to get divorce papers and the news that her young son had died. This time, she did just one thing.
“A daughter of the Zhang family isn’t something you can throw away whenever you please. How we divorce, and when, will be up to me.”
From Shaston to Berlin, from bank teller to general manager of Yunshang, from a discarded old-fashioned wife to Shanghai’s youngest female banker. Carrying memories of her previous life, she carves a path through the cracks of her era. Modernized qipao, a women’s bank, winter clothes for wartime: she stays ahead of history with every step, and rewrites her fate with every choice.
“I’ve never done anything earth-shattering in my life. I just don’t want to accept my fate.”
This is an alternate-history story. Any similarities to real events are purely coincidental!
The book is very good, especially the detailed description and upward themes