Shenyechi

****Completed, but under revision.****
***SUPER SLOW BURN MATURE 18+***

After struggling her way through university, Mina Harlow, a top tier graduate (and literal genius), with the aspiration of lifting her family out of poverty, was still living in the slums, taking odd jobs to earn a living. All of her hard work had been for nothing and her life is cast into turmoil because she offended the wrong Miss from a prominent family. Desperate to for her next source of income, Mina aligns herself with the wrong people, and finds herself amid several conspiracies that keep becoming more and more confounded by misunderstandings. She is mistaken for a spy, by one of the most influential families in the country and held captive as the confusion, mishaps and misunderstandings build up all around her. Under the extreme circumstance, Mina is thrown into despair, hatred and love all that the same time, but will the experience break her or make her ‘better?’ 

(This story is set in a fictional, modern day patriarchal society on the brink of a shift public opinion on the 'role' of the woman.)

Excerpt: 

"Why are you crying?"

"Because I'm stupid," Mina replied. The man laughed sarcastically. 

"I disagree. I think you are a very smart girl."

"Being smart does not mean you can not be stupid." Who told her she was a genius anyway?

***THIS IS AN ADULT STORY WITH AN ADULT THEME. THERE IS VIOLENCE AND IMPLIED VIOLENCE. THERE IS ROMANCE IN THIS STORY, BUT IT IS NOT EXACTLY A LOVE STORY. ***

When a Genius Makes a Mistake

<p>Ian was completely baffled by what was happening. Mina, his delicate and beautiful fiancé, was running into a dark alley, returning fire they were taking while pushing him forward. When they got to the end of the space, he thought they would die in a gunfight, but she gestured for him to help her move a dumpster, revealing a small opening in the fence that he barely fit through. Safely on the other side, Ian pulled his own weapon, but unlike the fear she showed in the past, Mina just smiled at him as he grabbed her hand and pulled her to run faster.  </p>

<p>"In here," Mina said, pushing specific corners of an unmarked door that allowed her to open it and seal them inside. Still, she pulled him toward the back of what he could now see was a warehouse and pulled him behind one of the metal structures in the room.</p>

Chapter 769: Blazing