The Young Lady Always Wants to Build an Industry

Zhuang Zhaoye never expected to open her eyes in a hospital room, surrounded by people hoping she would die. Even less did she expect Huo Huaizhi to be the one who offered to bring her, the family’s “discarded pawn,” back home. A man in a wheelchair, shunned by his family. A woman who has lost her memory and whose identity is in doubt. Everyone assumes they are simply making do. Only they know the truth: two hunters testing each other’s limits. Outsiders see them at odds, but Huo Huaizhi senses in her schemes a precision and ruthlessness that do not belong to this era. Late one night, Huo Huaizhi blocks her path. “Who are you, really?” Zhuang Zhaoye doesn’t answer. She only pulls a yellowed history of the War of Resistance against Japan from his bookshelf and says calmly, “Believe it or not, I protected this country before you did.” When her “dream of industry” collides with his “business empire,” they choose to join forces and turn the whole chessboard upside down.