Mei the Shopkeeper

Taifeng Bank was one of Shanghai’s most famous banks during the Republican era. Wearing a top hat, elegant and dashing, the steward of the bank commanded the financial world of Shanghai. Yet once the top hat came off, the long black hair falling to her shoulders revealed that Manager Mei was actually a beautiful young girl...

In 1940, the financial war in Shanghai triggered by the Zhongchu bonds spread across the whole country, and a financial crisis was on the verge of erupting. The War of Resistance against Japan was in a stalemate. As the daughter of Zaifeng, the last prince of the late Qing, Mei Keqing became the target of intense recruitment efforts from the Nationalist government, the Wang puppet government, and the Kwantung Army. The appearance of the mysterious Jintian Embroidery Party and the Nationalists’ ambiguous attitude toward resistance made Keqing decisively choose to lurk in the business world for the long term using her special identity, while also biding her time to take revenge on the murderer who killed her biological father, Zaifeng...