“This quietly disturbing parental nightmare succeeds on its own terms.” ―Publishers Weekly

★Rights sold: Film rights, English (World Wide) , French , Vietnamese, Polish, Spanish, Chinese, Korea, Russia and Arabic!
★Adapted into the Netflix TV series ‘Adventure of the RingOn Children’.
★Many major offline or online channels annual bestseller!
★Author Wu Xiaole is a best-selling author of Taiwan phenomenon!
★Based on first-hand interviews and written contemporary fables, directly attack the parenting pressure of middle-class parents.

Is private school the best investment? This book faithfully presents the dilemma and confusion of M-type education + overbreeding.Is sending your children to the private school the shortcut to high society? Or is it just to satisfy the parents’ vanity?

A young mother from a poor background pulls every string she can to give her son a shot at high society. Yet after she gets him into a ritzy private school, she finds she’s playing a dangerous game she cannot win. It’s Taiwan’s “Mean Girls for Moms” with a dark side.

What does having it all really mean? A heedlessly driven Taiwanese wife and mother finds out in a gripping and twisty novel about the dark games people play to succeed.

How far would you go to secure the best future for your child?

Chen Yunxian wants more from life than that of a noodle seller’s daughter. Instead, Chen Yunxian goes to college, marries her ambitious first love, Yang Dingguo, and has a bright young son, Peichen, for whom Chen Yunxian will do anything.

But as Yang Dingguo’s career falters and the family’s economic stability begins to shake, a golden opportunity arrives for Peichen. Yang Dingguo’s wealthy boss offers to pay Peichen’s tuition at the most exclusive private school in Taiwan. Chen Yunxian isn’t about to question it―only relish that through her son she has suddenly vaulted into the upper echelons of high society. It comes with fabulous new friends, invitations to the ritziest parties, and enviable, seemingly endless prospects for the future.

As everything Chen Yunxian wanted comes true, so does the alarming suspicion that she and her son are being swept up in something darker than Chen Yunxian agreed to―and that having it all can come with a frightening price.

Wu Xiaole was born in Taichung, Taiwan, and is a graduate of National Taiwan University College of Law. She is the author of several bestselling novels and nonfiction works, including On Children, which was adapted into a five-part series on Netflix; Have I Found You?; Deadly Login; and No Secrets Between Us. She currently resides in Taichung with her husband and two cats.