The Seventh Concubine Is Not to Be Trifled With

I was an orphan living on the streets until the warlord's third concubine took me in.

But as I grew into a graceful young woman, the warlord began looking at me differently.

On the day I came of age, he proposed taking me as his seventh concubine.

My gentle, timid adoptive mother stood up to him for the first time.

He beat her to death.

But I gazed shyly at the warlord and smiled. “I accept.”