The night before her wedding, my younger half-sister ran away, so I took her place and married into the royal palace. Seven years later, with Yan soldiers at the gates, they offered to trade me, the queen of a kingdom, for my half-sister, hoping to humiliate me. King Jin agreed at once, exchanging me for the woman he had always loved in front of both armies. My brother was delighted, too. They had no idea this was exactly what I wanted. I swore to repay them, one by one, for everything they had done to me.
