A Long Confession: The Black Lotus's Desperate Counterattack

Character-focused synopsis:

Outsiders say the Xu family men owe their success to using the Xu women as stepping stones, climbing over them one by one.

A fortune-teller judged Xu Zhiwei to have shallow family ties and a brilliance that would be her undoing.

Xu Zhiwei had just two words for those claims: bullshit.

The Xu family wanted to use her as a stepping stone? She would tear down the Xu family ancestral hall.

Shallow family ties? She was the one who cut them off.

Brilliance that would be her undoing? Then she would make every enemy die with her.

She schemed against her elder sister, drove away her younger brother, brought down her father, and destroyed the Xu family. Before the age of twenty-three, Xu Zhiwei fought back with near-absolute determination, even at the cost of her marriage.

But she never expected that it had all been an elaborate script, designed to trap her. The mastermind was none other than her ex-husband.

She was furious. Her life had never been anyone else’s to control. If he wanted control, he would have to pay the price.

Plot-focused synopsis:

On the day Xu Zhiwei took over as CFO of Berlin Capital, The Wall Street Journal ran this headline on its front page: “Is the fledgling from the East here to fleece us? Wall Street isn’t a place to smash a piano.”

On the day Xu Zhiwei replaced Xie Zheng as chairman of the board, nineteen senior partners jointly opposed her. They never expected that what awaited them was a short squeeze that would leave them with nothing.

Later, she climbed over the shoulders of every opponent to ascend the throne of Wall Street.

The financial world knows there is a Chinese woman investor with a keen eye, but she is not someone you want to cross.

Romance-focused synopsis:

Xu Zhiwei has always had a white moonlight in her heart.

When she was six, he took her away from the snow.

He taught her, “A throne is forged through bloody victories.”

She made him remember that her name was Xu Zhiwei.

Later, he remembered the girl called Xu Zhiwei,

but she forgot their story.

Xie Zheng is a devoted Xu Zhiwei supremacist.

If Xu Zhiwei wants power, he gives up his throne. If she wants revenge, he sharpens her blade. If she wants to kill someone, he wipes her fingerprints. If Xu Zhiwei dies, he follows her in death. If Xu Zhiwei wants to leave him, he...

Wait, that’s impossible.

He won’t let that happen again.

If you ask Xie Zheng what he regrets most in his life, it would surely be boarding that plane for the sake of his family’s future. He left her behind, five months pregnant, waiting in vain until the news of his death arrived.

If not for that, the wheels of fate would never have turned, and she would never have had to go through all of it.

This is a story about a black-lotus heroine fighting back and rising to power.

Please note:

The male lead is Xie Zheng.

It’s a happy ending, and sort of a second-chance romance.

The male and female leads are each other’s firsts. The male lead’s first time in every sense, and his one and only, is with the female lead.

The heroine was married to the second male lead for a time. You know what that means. While she was married, the male lead’s romantic life was on hold.

Content warnings:

1. This story is extremely melodramatic, featuring family power struggles, pseudo-incest, illegitimate children, amnesia, childbirth, following a lover in death, marriage by contract, cancer, domestic abuse, stand-ins, and revenge against a stand-in.

2. The heroine is a genius, and every character exists to serve her story.

3. The plot is somewhat unrealistic.

4. The professional knowledge included serves the plot. It differs from reality. Feel free to point that out, but it won’t be changed.

5. Everyone is evil, in the literal sense.

6. The heroine is no good, whether as a child or an adult. She is an absolute schemer, and some of the things she does would make even a villain shake their head.

7. After losing her memories, the heroine married the second male lead by agreement for reasons beyond her control, and suffered domestic abuse.

8. The second male lead is openly dark and unhinged, the male lead is secretly dark and unhinged, and the heroine is even crazier than both of them. When she wants to kill someone, she really does it.

9. The main characters all work in finance. Remember, people who are good at finance have dark hearts.

10. When the male and female leads are in love, they can’t live without each other.

11. That’s all for now.

Theme: There’s always a rainbow after the storm