Your Life as the Second Wife in Ancient Japan

Your husband is pounding on your gate before dawn. You don't let him in. Tonight is the other woman's turn. Step into the life of a nobleman's second wife in 10th-century Heian Japan. You marry Fujiwara no Kaneie, one of the most powerful young men at court, knowing he already has a first wife. Then you find a love letter to a woman in a narrow lane called Machi Alley, and you start to write everything down. He visits less every year. How long would you keep waiting? Based on the real Kagerō Diary, written by the woman history remembers only as "the mother of Michitsuna". Some scenes and dialogue are dramatised. Subscribe to Veil for immersive stories that put you inside lives from the past.