After That Night, She Started Keeping Their Appointments

The story of a highly intelligent woman who, once given the chance, takes the world by storm.

Shu Xin had been married for five years. Her scumbag husband, Zhou Yiping, had left her alone for four of them. She got five thousand yuan a month for living expenses, an empty house, and a husband who came home only once every six months and even locked the study door when he slept, afraid she might stab him.

Driven to the brink, Shu Xin sat on a park bench and prayed: Give me a man.

A man named Niu Lanshan walked over and stammered, "You... how much do you want?"

Shu Xin was mistaken for that kind of woman. She was so angry she wanted to bite him, but eventually realized it was all a misunderstanding.

After that night, she started meeting him. A camera across the way captured them together. The scandal over the secretly taken photos erupted. It should have been a devastating crisis, but unexpectedly, it became a turning point.

Her father-in-law, Zhou Chongli, offered to adopt her as his daughter and have her take the surname Zhou. He would hand over the multibillion-yuan Qilin Furniture company to her as its chairwoman, and support her divorce from Zhou Yiping.

The condition: any child she had in a future remarriage had to bear the surname Zhou and inherit the entire Zhou family business.

Niu Lanshan suddenly disappeared. Her father-in-law arranged for a lawyer, Zhao Dongyu, to get close to her. Only then did Shu Xin finally see clearly: from beginning to end, she had been nothing more than a carefully positioned chess piece in her father-in-law's hands.

A woman trapped in a marriage for five years breaks free of the trap. From a chess piece at the mercy of others, she takes control of the board herself and reclaims her life.

Shu Xin: From today on, my surname is Zhou. But I am the one who runs this company!