An Honest Beta Starts in the Interrogation Room [GB]

[The story will be available for paid reading on the 18th! Starting from Chapter 31, earlier chapters will be locked retroactively. If you’ve already read them, you won’t need to buy them. The author hasn’t enabled copy protection, either, so you can skip ahead directly!] I’m an honest, older beta woman living in the slums. I ride a beat-up little bicycle through the shacks, delivering goods. I respect my elders and care for the young. I even pay forty percent of my wages in taxes and go to church to pray regularly. Who wouldn’t call me an honest person? And yet I was arrested, accused of helping the rebels pass along intelligence. Locked in a dark little room, I pleaded my case. “I’m innocent! I was working hard on the night it happened!” But the police inspector had long coveted my body. He demanded I become his lover, or he’d have my younger brother expelled from school. I had no choice but to submit to his threats. Later, the inspector’s husband found out and came storming over in a rage. I could only tell him everything to prove that I’d been forced into it. He told me that they had long since grown tired of each other. If I would become his lover too, they’d have grounds to divorce. I had no choice but to agree. Later still, their political rivals seized on this and forced me to testify in court. To protect their lives, I had no choice but to submit to the rivals. To humiliate me and trample on my dignity, the rivals used money to corrupt my soul every single day. Go away, you damned piles of money. All of you, go away. My noble character will not be sullied by anyone. Bai Wuyong is the heroine’s assumed name. Her real name will be revealed later. Most of the story is told in first person, with occasional omniscient narration. She doesn’t have a biological younger brother, but she does have a lover she calls little brother. The heroine is a master of disguise, a schemer through and through, and spends every day plotting by any means necessary to climb higher. There will be deaths, so please stay away if that bothers you. Relationships develop along multiple lines, and the heroine doesn’t have a huge entourage of admirers. She just does things herself. The heroine will not be marked, nor will she mark anyone else (though someone might beg her to mark them). Theme: Never give up on a better life.