Liu Changsheng is summoned to the general’s mansion for his roast mutton, and makes the fatal mistake of addressing Liu Muyao as a concubine. She has him killed for it. His widow, Chen Lan, has the bones of her face shaved down until she is unrecognizable, then sets up a mutton soup stall outside the mansion gates with her daughter, A’ning, to get close to the general, Xiao An. Patient and careful, she begins working her way toward the people who took her husband from her.
