The Revenge at Birdcage Hall [Republican Era]

Only 6 jiao for the complete book | Mystery romance novella | Manor series | Hopeless romantic to the extreme

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One month after my rich boyfriend and I broke up, I heard that his entire family had been massacred.

At the most famous Du Mansion on Luofeng Mountain, the master of the house, Du Bowei, was obsessed with raising birds. The estate was mockingly known as the "Caged Bird Manor." After murdering his wife and son, he killed himself. All three bodies were found at the scene, their deaths horrifying.

As someone who had once been in contact with the family, I was invited to the final funeral at Caged Bird Manor.

Amid a sea of black suits and white silk flowers, the handsome Huo Maoqian caught my attention. He told me he was the lawyer in charge of handling the Du family's estate.

I had a strong feeling he would be my next boyfriend.

Reading guide:

1. No real-life inspirations or parallels. Please don't associate this with real people or events.

2. The main story is written in third person. I made the cover myself.

3. To avoid spoilers, I won't reply to comments about the plot's direction or theories. Kisses.

Check out the completed novel The Rich Wives' Afternoon Tea Mystery Hour

| All-female detective team | Each has a love interest | The men are all supporting characters

#Closet packed with perfectly tailored gold-thread velvet qipaos, so many cream pancakes at the Dongshuiwei Road Hotel that I've had my fill

Song Fangsheng, the beloved daughter of a diplomat, was praised by her father's friends as "the most beautiful pearl in the Far East." To preserve her lavish high-society lifestyle, she followed her father's arrangement and married Gu Junsheng, the police chief, whom she had never met. Her husband, whom she had no feelings for, was rarely home, so Fangsheng often invited people over for afternoon tea in their enormous mansion.

Ye Qiurong was a gold digger in every sense of the word. She fought tooth and nail, beating countless starlets and socialites in Shanghai's high society before finally marrying into the Du family, headed by the chairman of China's number-one business association. Her husband, Du Cheng'en, was thirty-two, and he doted without limits on his thirteen-years-younger beauty. She didn't have to do anything except sleep.

Shen Liman had just lost her husband. Her three-year-old son was in the care of her mother-in-law. By day, she rode around Shanghai in a car, listening to "Evening Primrose" at theaters, drinking coffee at Meike Cafe, and losing herself in the music and dancing beneath the neon lights.

But Shanghai, even when bathed in bright sunlight, could not illuminate the tormented ghosts haunting its shadows.

One day, the three rich wives came together after finding a greeting letter written by someone who had been dead for ten years. The bright camellia seal on the envelope shimmered with a silvery light.

"Since we have nothing better to do, why don't we open it and take a look?"

Reading guide:

1. The three heroines get equal page time, though the story is told mostly from Song Fangsheng's perspective.

2. The husbands don't appear much, and each romance has a different dynamic: a marriage that turns to love, a long-planned courtship, and a variety of ways to train a dog.

2-1. The police chief is the strongest, the chairman has the most tricks, and Liman's love interest will remain a secret for now.

3. A case-of-the-week mystery with little romance.

4. I've screenshotted the blurb's concept. Long live originality.

5. The second book is expected to start posting at the end of the year.

Theme: With light in your heart, there is a path beneath your feet.