Before She Became a General

Cheng Zhennniang was a young concubine Song Xuanqing had bought from outside. She was gentle and pleasant, petite and lovely. She couldn't lift a hand or bear a load on her shoulders, utterly too frail to care for herself.

Before he went off to war, he warned all the women in his household that if anything happened to Zhennniang, he would make them pay.

Even so, he was still worried.

Someone as delicate as her wouldn't last long in a den of wolves and tigers like that.

But when he returned from war, he discovered that his young wife was not only alive, but thriving.

The senior wife, who had once cared only for herself, now had eyes only for Cheng Zhennniang. The other young wives followed her lead, too.

Whatever Cheng Zhennniang said, they did.

Song Xuanqing: I'm the master of the general's household, and I'm your husband.

Furious, he went to confront Cheng Zhennniang. Before he could even touch the door, he was kicked flying into the courtyard.

Song Xuanqing: ?- ?

Is this really my gentle and pleasant young concubine?

Cheng Zhennniang glanced at him coldly, dusted off her hands, and led everyone away.

From then on, the women of the Song family left the household of their own accord. Under Cheng Zhennniang's leadership, they established an independent female household and formed an army of women, no longer becoming dependent vines unable to stand on their own within the walls of the inner courtyard.

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When Cheng Zhennniang woke up, she discovered that she had been reborn as the concubine she despised most in a story set in a society where men held power.

She had spent her life fighting over a man.

She had been trapped behind high walls for years, with no freedom of her own.

She was the female general most feared throughout Yuequan. Was she really supposed to live like a shut-in, fighting with a group of women for a man's favor just to get a little room to breathe?

Dream on!

If they were women, they should understand that what they ought to fight for had never been about who bore a son. It was about the rights they deserved on this land!

Cheng Zhennniang reconciled with the wives in the inner courtyard and led them toward a wider sky!

Theme: A pampered wife awakens