A Mundane Heart in the Mortal World

Synopsis A fierce collision between traditional aristocrats, urban elites, nouveau riche, and the poor! Can love overcome class barriers? This is a fictional contemporary urban story. Bonus scene "I wasn't asking you. I was asking her. Let her speak for herself!" Liao Bozhou poured himself a glass of wine as he spoke. He was clearly taking aim at Yifan, yet he wouldn't even look at her. "Being a nurse for the rest of my life would mean the same fate! I don't want that kind of life!" Yifan replied, holding back her heartache. "Then what kind of life do you want? Fine clothes and good food? Gold and silver? Getting something for nothing?" Liao Bozhou pressed her in a thoroughly contemptuous tone, casting her a mocking glance. "I never expected to get something for nothing! I just want a fair exchange! If making a deal can change my fate, I'm willing to try!" Yifan answered in a trembling voice. "A fair exchange? A deal? What do you have that you could offer in exchange or as a bargaining chip?" Liao Bozhou asked even more contemptuously. "..." "You probably think you're beautiful and that your looks are your bargaining chip, right? If that's what you think, I'm going to have to burst your bubble! Do you know what girls like you are usually missing? It's not beauty, it's presence. When you're poor and haven't seen the world, you lack confidence in how you act and speak. You give yourself away, you get flustered, you feel awkward, and naturally you come across as provincial. No girl from an ordinary family can avoid this. Life has branded that provincialism into their bones over time. Those marks, formed as they grow up, are hard to erase, unless they get the chance to transform themselves completely or be reborn. Do you think you have that chance? So I suggest you give up. With looks like yours, you'll never make it into high society. You'd be better off going home and being a good, modest little girl!" Liao Bozhou said with a bluntness bordering on cruelty. "Brother, how can you talk like that?" Zhu Dongxu could no longer stand listening. In front of Xiaoli and Yifan, he couldn't help confronting his cousin. "How can I talk? If you can't even handle these words, how do you expect to get by in rich people's circles? With her background, there's only one way for her to enter their world: turn herself into a puddle of mud for the rich to trample on, giving them a bit of amusement. If she can't take it, or doesn't want to turn herself into mud, then she shouldn't enter that world! Being a gold digger isn't easy, either. If you don't have the courage and determination to give up all your self-respect, don't become one!" Click the image below to go straight to my author page. Follow it, and you'll be notified whenever I publish a new story. Premise: