Before my mother died, she left me a pair of love-gu.
She wanted me to use them on the young General Li when he returned to the capital in triumph.
He was the husband she had chosen for me after painstaking consideration.
And so I spent three years trailing after Li Wujin.
The cold, stern young general held me beneath the moon and said he would ask the emperor to grant us a marriage.
The next day, a eunuch arrived at our house with imperial decrees.
One was for me.
One was for my elder sister, the legitimate daughter.
She would soon marry Li Wujin.
I was promised to his deputy.