The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

Facing He Sangrou's silent accusations, Chen Peiluan felt a headache: "I've said it before, I have completely given up hope on Tao Er, and I don't want to continue to plan for him or worry about him!"

He Sangrou opened her eyes wide in surprise: "Are you serious? Are you just saying this in anger?"

She obviously didn't believe that Chen Peiluan really had no feelings for Tao Er anymore: "We spent so much effort to marry our beloved, and now you say you don't want to marry me, I don't believe it."

"Who cares whether you believe it or not!" Chen Peiluan herself is a stubborn person. She used to think that He Sangrou and herself were the few women who dared to do things, so she made friends with them. However, after so many years, when He Sangrou returned to the capital, Chen Peiluan realized that when she was far away, she thought she was pretty good, but when she got closer, she found that everything about her was similar to her ideas in form but different in spirit, and she felt disgusted everywhere.

"You are mean to me. I came here to ask you what you think for your own good, but you are mean to me?!" He Sangrou was spoiled by her family since she was a child. Whatever she wanted, she could get it by throwing a tantrum. After marrying her "sweetheart", the other party also provided for this wife who was loved by her capable family for a long time.

However, ever since General He retired, the He family has become less powerful than before. Except for General He Da, the younger generation of the He family is almost incompetent, and their prestige is declining day by day. Otherwise, Yao San would not have suddenly turned against his wife and insisted on taking a concubine home.

He Sangrou also realized that the relationship between her and her mother's family was gradually eroding due to her repeated requests for an official position for Yao San and to clean up the mess. Moreover, her father was already very old and one day he would not be able to protect her anymore. That was why He Sangrou was so eager to do something to prove her importance to Yao San.

"If you really wanted to do this for my own good, how could you not listen to what I said even after I emphasized it several times!" Chen Peiluan felt aggrieved as if she had been betrayed by a friend. "I no longer have any feelings for Tao Er. I did so many things for him, but in the end, he only changed his mind and fell in love with someone else. I don't want to continue to like a man like him!"

Chen Peiluan was actually more indignant about her husband's transference as if the fruits of her years of investment had been eaten away by moths. It was a pity that Tao Er had been taught by her to be a great man in his previous life, and she was just the wife of a duke... She was the wife of a duke only because she depended on her husband. No matter how much she had contributed to this family and this title, and no matter whether she was far better than her husband, she was still just this title and an accessory to her husband.

Watching helplessly as the person she had personally trained turned against her mercilessly for an outsider, and even used the methods she had taught him against her... During the first few days after Chen Peiluan was reborn, she wanted to bite off Tao Er and Lin Qiao's throats in her dreams.

After hearing her speech, He Sangrou still didn't understand: "Aren't all men cunning? You loved Tao Er so much back then and gave so much to him, but now you're going to give up on him just because of a woman outside?"

She said in disbelief: "Of course you have to keep a close eye on your own man. If another woman wants to snatch him away, then of course we have to snatch him back. When did you become so heartless? Are you going to learn from those fake virtuous women and let your man fool around with other women?"

Her words made Chen Peiluan completely realize that He Sangrou could never understand her. She stared into her eyes and said word by word, "My ambition has never been to steal a man!"

As soon as these words came out, not only He Sangrou, whose mind was full of how to kick all the women around her husband away, but even Chen Peiluan herself couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. But before she could figure out what these words, which were spoken unconsciously in anger, meant.

He Sangrou screamed, "How did you become like this? Do you also want to be that kind of useless mistress who helps a man take care of the harem, takes care of his concubines and illegitimate children, and thinks that it is her responsibility and power?!"

"What do you mean by superiority? What do you mean by just sitting back and watching tigers fight? In the end, aren't you still a loser who can't even control her husband? If she's that powerful, how can she not even control a man's waistband? It's fine if she can't control that, but how can she watch one bastard after another crawl out, and even pretend to say that the concubines are there to help her share the pain of childbirth, ugh!"

"She hasn't had many children herself! Marriage is a union of two families. How can she make the decision on her own and bring all the concubines in her own courtyard back to her parents' home and let her parents recognize this good sister who has no blood of her own?"

"Can she just abandon her own son and support his illegitimate son? He is her son anyway, haha, he was born to her by me!"

He Sangrou was just getting angry on her own.

The He family has a large population, which is inseparable from the efforts of General He.

General He had three wives and more than ten concubines. He Sangrou was the only daughter of General He's last wife.

Since she was a child, she has watched her mother being virtuous and dignified in front of others, but being suppressed to the point of madness behind others. She constantly brainwashes herself with words that she is the mistress, all her husband's children are her children, and all the concubines are actually there to help her have children. She even tries to assimilate He Sangrou, and completely ignores the bullying and exclusion of her daughter by General He's other children.

He Sangrou's biological mother put on a shell of a majestic matron and forced herself to be the "mother" of all the children who were not her own. When He Sangrou was bullied and encountered injustice, she asked her daughter to understand her difficulties and not be too willful and lose the demeanor of a lady.

As for He Sangrou, screw the gentlemanly manners.

She began to rebel, distanced herself from her mother, and moved closer to her aging father.

Unexpectedly, her eccentric temper won the favor of General He, and made He Sangrou feel that her mother was indeed incompetent. Look at herself, as long as she can deal with her father, she can be domineering at home, without having to endure or give in, and never have to suffer grievances from others again.

"Tao Er is your husband, even if you..." He Sangrou's eyes darkened, "even if you destroy his thing, can you really watch your things being taken away by other women? Even if you don't care, you should at least think about your own child. Can you watch him suffer from the disgust of a bastard?"

Chen Peiluan listened quietly to her nervous temper, but she felt less angry. "Sister Sang Rou, I don't want to do this, but you are right. I can't let Tao Er have other children."