After Wang Zhaojun Went Beyond the Pass, I Became a Palace Maid Sent for a Political Marriage

In the first year of the Jingning era, I accompanied Wang Zhaojun beyond the frontier as a maid sent along for a marriage alliance. Outside Chang'an, she asked me softly, "Are you afraid?" I said, "No." That journey lasted fifty years. She became a Xiongnu consort, and I raised the children she bore. Later, one of them became the Chanyu. The history books recorded only Zhaojun's name, never knowing that the person who truly changed history was a maid named A Yue.