From Concubine in the Enemy Camp to War God Protecting the Country

Nu Ai was a famous female general in the mid-Xia Dynasty and the first female spy recorded in Chinese history. According to the "Zuo Zhuan: Ai Gong Year", in order to restore the rule of the Xia Dynasty, Xia King Shaokang, "the maid Ai Spy poured and sent Ji Zhu to lure Ji Zhu, so that he destroyed Guo and Ge and restored Yu's achievements." Nv Ai was ordered by Shaokang to sneak into the fiefdom of Guoguo (today's Laizhou, Shandong) to spy on the enemy, and made great contributions to Shaokang's destruction of Guoguo and the revival of the Xia Dynasty.