My Elder Sister Entered the Palace to Become a Consort

My elder sister was the prettiest person in the village.

The procurers who bought people for the palace all wanted to buy her.

But my sister said the palace was no place to go.

Then, during the famine that year, the procurers came to the village for a second time, and she sold herself anyway.

Five taels of silver bought my sister a lifetime of freedom.

She was imprisoned behind the palace’s towering walls.

From then on, I no longer had a sister.