Ahua sold herself into becoming a camp courtesan for her brother's medicine yet served as the fire-tending girl in the rear kitchen.
Each day she hid five steamed buns for the sister women, only to discover a hungry boy with baby fat wolfing them down one night, but she soon traded his hunted rabbits for more food and waited for him nightly.
As Zhang Ming grew taller and left for the battlefield with a short blade for her while the general attacked Dayan City and rations grew scarce, can the young kitchen girl keep helping the thin sister women like Lanxiang amid the soldiers' foul tempers?
