Queen of the Orient

The protagonist Shen Nian is a girl born in a poor mountainous area in a southwest province. His father died young, his mother remarried, and he was raised by his grandmother. When he was eighteen years old, he dropped out of school due to his poor family and came to the provincial capital city to work as a waiter in a bathing center. By chance, she met Chen Guodong, a powerful local real estate businessman, and was led into a world she didn't understand at all - land development, demolition compensation, power rent-seeking, and profit transfer.