The true story of an unwanted daughter
             So far the characters have just been introduced and you don't really know much about the characters. The prologue is really confusing and you have to read it twice to understand what they are talking about because it is vital for you to understand the story.
             In the beginning the family meets because their father had died. There are five brothers and sisters, Lydia, Gregory, Edgar, James and Adeline and one half sister Susan. And there is also the stepmother Niang (which is a Chinese term for mother).
             They were meeting because their father's testament and they are all astonished that he has not left them any money, he was a very wealthy man with many companies and houses. Niang said that their father wouldn't have liked if they had questioned his testament and nobody dared to question it anyway. They were all afraid of Niang who had made their lives hard enough. This is when Adeline recounts from the beginning when she was little and how this all came along.
             Chapter one is really interesting and it talks about how Adeline's great aunt gained independence, she didn't like her feet bound and wanted to do what she wanted. She was A Chinese woman in the 1886, it was the time were women were supposed to stay at home instead of working or even opening their own company. She was the little sister of Ye Ye who is Adeline's grandfather. At this time Shanghai had become the center of Chinas trade and industries and then Gong Gong (which is Adeline's great aunt but out of respect she was named Great Uncle) started her own bank, The Shanghai Women's Bank. She had the greatest reputation and the whole family even father and grandfather granted her every wish.
             At the age of 26 Andeline's grandfather was entered into a marriage by a marriage broker and he married her grandmother who was fifteen at the time and they grew to love each other and they had sev...