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

During the car ride, Ian dropped the idea of having sex with Mina, who was quiet and withdrawn. He knew she was not sick; there were no clots in her brain that would move, nor was there any danger in telling her the past. Her headaches likely came from the stress of trying to remember, and the only things that stopped her from confirming was her trust in him, and the fact that she believed the added stress would be deadly. Jeremy believed that Mina's mind blocked out the old memories the same way a person who went through a traumatizing experience would sometimes blackout. They never found where she was being held, so they could not confirm, but they all agreed that she must have had to do something so terrible to get away that her mind literally cracked, 'forgetting' the bad, so it could focus on only the good.

"I'm not trying to be," Mina replied. "I was just thinking about our relationship."

"Do you want to call off the wedding?"

Chapter 776: Insecure