Abandoned in Old Shanghai, a Powerful Boss Teaches Me to Be His Wife

[Republican Era Revenge and Rise] [Face-Slapping the Scumbag] [Powerful Boss Dotes on His Wife] [Wrongful Marriage] [A Desperate Husband's Pursuit] [Awakening]

"You're just a country woman. Going out to dance with guests is progress in this new age. Understand?"

Her husband, newly returned from studying abroad, used the most high-minded talk of "new ideas" to trick Xu Zhiyi into a dance hall in the French Concession, where he put a price tag of fifty silver dollars on her.

Three years ago, he had married her with great fanfare and promised to love her for life.

Three years later, he called her backward and provincial. To secure his political future, he not only stole the keepsakes left by her late mother, but callously abandoned her in a shady establishment filled with all kinds of people.

She had guarded her virtue and swallowed every grievance, only to find a fashionable chestnut-colored curl on the pillow in their new home.

On a dark night when her heart had turned to ash, just as she was at her most desperate and helpless, a black car stopped before her.

Qin Nanfeng, the Shanghai tycoon rumored to wield boundless power and deal ruthlessly with his enemies, held out his cane to her.

He gave her the strongest of door bolts and a steaming bowl of rice porridge. He even restrained all his sharpness, bent down, and patiently taught her to write, stroke by stroke.

The scumbag trampled her into the mud with his hypocritical idea of "freedom," while the powerful, high-ranking mob boss gave her the most traditional respect and affection.