Blurb:
When Gu Yiyu woke up, she discovered she was the early-dead old-fashioned young lady in a melodramatic Republican-era novel.
She wore a crumbling old-style ruqun and kept muttering that a woman was virtuous if she lacked talent.
When she was seventeen, her fiance chased after fashionable trends and ran off before their wedding. Her eldest brother became addicted to opium. After a serious illness, her younger sister's personality changed completely, and she planned to elope with her sweetheart to the West in search of freedom.
The household was in chaos. Her usually shrewd father took blow after blow and became bedridden.
The Gu family's businesses were about to be carved up by greedy wolves.
Gu Yiyu stepped out of the house and took charge of the family's old cloth shop. She went from Third Miss Gu to Boss Gu, and finally became President Gu of the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce.
An unconventional nation-building story, with a powerful, satisfying heroine
Theme: A single spark can start a prairie fire
