[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.
[she makes an aggravated noise in the back of her throat.]
...I know now that he never intended to keep it. [honestly she would kind of like to murder him for it but she keeps that to herself because she would like to get to go home come judgment day and not just get cast down to hell.] He just told me what I wanted to hear.
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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.
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[it's not familiar to her, exactly, but the cruelty of it is.]
So because of what he did, you weren't able to get that protection for your mother.
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[she makes an aggravated noise in the back of her throat.]
...I know now that he never intended to keep it. [honestly she would kind of like to murder him for it but she keeps that to herself because she would like to get to go home come judgment day and not just get cast down to hell.] He just told me what I wanted to hear.