The Seventeen Concubines of the Household

She was the Qin family's purchased concubine, brought in to bring good fortune to a dying man. And she was the seventeenth concubine.

Her father-in-law issued an ultimatum: if his son didn't survive the year, she would be buried with him!

Her mother-in-law blocked the door: if she didn't give the family a grandson this year, she'd be thrown out with nothing!

Meanwhile, her husband acted as if nothing were wrong. He ate and drank as usual, occasionally putting on a spectacular fit of coughing up blood just to scare her.

At last, she snapped!

And so the Qin family entered a new era: the woman in charge was no longer the principal wife, but a lowly concubine ranked seventeenth!