
Proud stepsister. Bankrupt, living on streets, she refused handouts, but ate my begged food. She gave away our hidden valuables. Family worked, she read. I worked two jobs, scrubbing latrines; she despised me as vulgar. She married the Emperor. I begged for family help; she coldly refused, citing integrity. Parents died from exhaustion, I was killed. She told Emperor, 'If not vulgar, they wouldn't have met such an end.' I returned to the day our family begged on the streets.