[she is so tired of men and also nobility and politics.]
Status and security, yes. Wives in Daxing are respected, and marrying into a noble family means that a woman's relatives are also protected because to harm them would be to offend the wife of a member of an influential family. But concubines are treated almost as if they are servants, and can really only attain any sort of status if they bear sons. Even then, if the man has a wife, they cannot complain no matter how they are treated.
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[she is so tired of men and also nobility and politics.]
Status and security, yes. Wives in Daxing are respected, and marrying into a noble family means that a woman's relatives are also protected because to harm them would be to offend the wife of a member of an influential family. But concubines are treated almost as if they are servants, and can really only attain any sort of status if they bear sons. Even then, if the man has a wife, they cannot complain no matter how they are treated.