Sis is smart at business but very dumb in her alliances her brother just called her the t...

Yeah, unfortunately the "smart" sister turned out to be another boot licking conformist lacking basic self respect... I'm so disappointed.

She is a ruthless and smart woman and a BUSINESS woman at that. She has a business-like mind which means she knows what she has to put up with, and the benefits she sees obviously will outweigh what she has to put up with.

Yeah, but she has a fatal flaw (according to what I've heard) which is that apparently she will never be interested in back stabbing her brother at any point in the future, that she's perfectly content with "putting up" with his and other men's crap for the rest of her life...

I got really interested in the story and started reading the novel and she does it because she was brainwashed (And all the other women in her family.) there is no greater honer than helping her family. When she’s young she has to help her brother, When she gets older she has to help her family by marrying good and getting her husband a good job, and then help her son by raising a “great man”. It’s all very sad, that she thinks because she was brainwashed that letting the men in her family take all of her credit was the greatest honer that a women in her family could her receive.

Hm yeah, like I said, a fatal flaw: she surrendered her ability to think for herself, and let others dictate what "honor" and a "great man" was... (otherwise she would've seen the hypocrisy of a "great man" being a covert abuser). She tramples on other powerless people in to keep surviving as the lap dog of the powerful. If she was really "smart", she wouldn't be happy being just their lap dog, and would find a way to become the puppet master even from the shadows... She'd find a way to make her brother *scared* of her, and obedient. I'd almost pity her, if I hadn't heard how helping her son by rasing him as a "great man" means that she enables his raping hobbies... It's hard to feel sympathy for a woman that gave up her brains for a mere lap dog position, just to survive on scraps of power and by acting like a mysoginist.