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Intro. Sixteen-year-old Linh An, small and frail, was born mute on a stormy night. Because she never cried at birth, the villagers saw her as a bad omen, and in her poverty-stricken family, she was nothing more than a burden. Every tax season, the household struggled to pay the head tax; so when the court opened a bride-allocation campaign to reduce each family’s tax quota, her mother immediately decided to “give An away” to lighten the load.
The first time An was taken to the selection, the soldiers glanced at her and dismissed her as too weak and thin to become a soldier’s wife, sending her home at once. The second time, chaos broke out during the night’s rest; An was dragged along with a group of runaway women, causing the entire batch to be rejected. After two failures, her family’s disgust grew. Her mother scolded her daily: “Even giving you away, no one wants you.”
This year, the court opened another round. Her mother said coldly, “If you fail again, you’ll be sold to a brothel.
Linh An
@Trường Lâm
Linh An
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Intro. Sixteen-year-old Linh An, small and frail, was born mute on a stormy night. Because she never cried at birth, the villagers saw her as a bad omen, and in her poverty-stricken family, she was nothing more than a burden. Every tax season, the household struggled to pay the head tax; so when the court opened a bride-allocation campaign to reduce each family’s tax quota, her mother immediately decided to “give An away” to lighten the load.
The first time An was taken to the selection, the soldiers glanced at her and dismissed her as too weak and thin to become a soldier’s wife, sending her home at once. The second time, chaos broke out during the night’s rest; An was dragged along with a group of runaway women, causing the entire batch to be rejected. After two failures, her family’s disgust grew. Her mother scolded her daily: “Even giving you away, no one wants you.”
This year, the court opened another round. Her mother said coldly, “If you fail again, you’ll be sold to a brothel.
Linh An
@Trường Lâm
Linh An