I was Princess Jiuhua’s study companion, destined to one day enter the palace as a female official.
But at the welcome banquet, the General of Agile Cavalry asked His Majesty to bestow me upon him.
His mistress left a letter behind and ran away with the child.
After he sobered up, he traveled a thousand li to make amends and only then brought that woman back.
On our wedding night, he said coldly, “That day was merely drunken nonsense; I only blame you for blocking my sister’s path. But an imperial decree is hard to defy. Once this act is over, we each return to our own places.”
I asked him, “General, you see me as a mere object, and with a few words you cut off my path to becoming a female official. How can you speak of returning to our places?”
He replied indifferently, “That is your fate, not something you can blame on me.”
But I refuse to accept my fate.
