A Republic-Era Woman's Rebirth

This story updates irregularly, so enter at your own risk. Although it's in the science fiction category, there are no sci-fi elements. It's just an ordinary rebirth story, with no aliens. Blurb: In her previous life, Shang Yin was married off by her father to the sixty-year-old owner of an opium den as his eighth concubine. By then, he had already tortured two of his concubines to death. Just as she was about to get her revenge, she was reborn... But aside from her looks and her knack for handling men, she has nothing, so she can only cling to a powerful man. She isn't naive or self-righteous. She just wants to live a stable, happy life with her mother. She thought she could leave once she had made enough money, but judging by how things are going, something seems off? Powerful man: "You provoked me, and now you think you can leave?" Shang Yin: "Waaah..." A few warnings: 1. Things are a little rough at first, but this isn't an angst story. I can't bear to put the heroine through that. The heroine is cunning, not a self-sacrificing saint, and was a concubine in her previous life. 2. This is an alternate-history Republican-era setting, written however I please. No historical nitpicking. 3. Don't ask whether both leads are virgins. The male lead isn't, and the heroine wasn't in her previous life either. 4. If anything bothers you, click the X and escape. Recommended: Little Duck's Wealth Comes Rolling In Through Online Gaming Little Duck's completed old story, Reborn: A Life of Plane Trading: Lin Yue'er's Plane-Trading Life. Author's new story, No Limit to Wealth. Please add it to your favorites. And here's a story by one of Duck's friends: When Xiao Hong Is Reborn, by Student Handbook Theme: