The First Female General

This book is also titled *Flowers Bloom Across the Mountains and Rivers*. One-sentence summary: From a bullied concubine-born daughter to a founding female marquis, tearing open a crack in a world where "women are weak." Synopsis: An era of chaos. Warlords carve up the land, the people wander displaced, natural disasters and human calamities abound. Even men struggle to survive; being a woman means enduring even greater oppression. Born a concubine's daughter, she severs her past and enters the palace in her sister's stead. She possesses no innate talent, seeks masters everywhere, and faces repeated setbacks. She witnesses too many injustices in the world, sees too many lonely, suffe...