The general returned from battle with a woman named Lin Wan. I heard she'd invented something called a pistol, a weapon of immense power that helped my husband turn the tide and return victorious. Unwilling to make Lin Wan his concubine, he divorced me, claiming I had failed to bear him an heir. But he forgot that the status he enjoyed now was all thanks to me, the merchant's daughter he despised most, and the money I'd poured into him.
