Chapter 365 - 364: Wind and Water Rising
The winter winds in Beijing were fierce, chafing at one’s cheeks.
No matter how many winters passed, Jiang Nanshu always despised the cold.
It had been four months since she was released from the mental hospital.
She spent her days acquiring small companies, expanding her influence.
Every day was spent rushing between negotiating partnerships and attending boozy social functions.
In the world of business, after several months of exploring, Jiang Nanshu gradually mastered it, later emerging as a dark horse among Beijing’s newly rising elites due to her decisive decision-making.
Many of Beijing’s elites knew Jiang Nanshu; Zhou Yanxu, while he was still alive, always took her, his unrelated "sister," to banquets.
In this circle, a sister without blood relation was no different from a kept lover.
As a young girl, she was frail, but as she grew up, that delicate face blossomed beautifully. Zhou Yanxu raised her to be refined and delicate; her moist apricot eyes were deer-like, and raising one’s voice seemed almost an affront to her.
Back then, many envied Zhou Yanxu for having such a beauty by his side, but alas, this man was blessed with neither wealth nor a long life, dying just as Jiang Nanshu was turning fifteen.
Such a beautiful girl, inheriting so much wealth, became a tantalizing target in the wolf-eat-tigress world of Beijing. Later, Zhou Yanbai came along; it was said he locked the young girl away to groom her. On her eighteenth birthday, she was given as a gift to Young Zhou of Port City by their bed, only for her to escape due to their brief oversight.
Later, when she reappeared in the public eye, her nature greatly altered—both crazed and wild—her allure heightened their desire to conquer. Beautiful she was, but getting too close could mean death by her hand. When she was locked up in the mental hospital, they had pitied her. Now free, was she to stand as their equal?