The Slender Beauty of Changmen Courtyard

On the day the city fell, Feng Yun was offered by her father as a prize to the enemy general. Everyone pitied her fate, believing she would become a captive and fall into a pit of despair. Yet she tightly covered the small donkey cart she was to leave in, afraid that anyone might see her secret delight. As a child, she acted strangely and spoke shockingly, once foretelling a military disaster so accurately that she was almost burned as a demon by her clan. Growing up, she was unparalleled in beauty, unmatched across the eight counties of Xuzhou, but was still rejected by her fiancé’s family. In an era of chaos and shattered customs, what path would a female captive take? “I do not seek a ...