A Wife's Rising Road

A daughter born to a concubine can be sent along when her elder sister marries, to enter the husband's house as his concubine and help the wife keep his favor. That is how she was married off the first time. She spent that life working to keep her sister in the husband's affections. It ended with her parted from her own child and buried alive in a common grave. Then she is back on the morning the two sisters are to be wed. She has been kept down for eighteen years as the concubine's daughter, and she swears this time to hold her own fate. She plans each step, meaning to go from concubine to a wife of equal standing, and after that to be the general's lady with the household under her control.