The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

"Really?!" Madam Guan's face was filled with surprise. From a daughter of an official family, to a concubine in a marquis's mansion, to a prisoner in a coal mine... and now to a cult pimp, her life can be described as full of ups and downs. The only revelation that this wandering life gave her was that if she had not been a daughter but a son who was valued by her family when she first crawled out of her mother's belly, she would not have suffered all these hardships.

The Xiang family was convicted because of their father and brother who had been in the court, but their mother died, their sisters were separated, and Xiang Zhenzhi had no choice but to give herself to Zhou Ting as his mistress. After that, she fell further and further, and until now, she is still crawling in the mire.

After the Xiang family was rehabilitated, although the father and brother had been tortured and became old and thin, they were still two innocent people in the eyes of the world and themselves. As real men, they would not lose a piece of flesh if touched by outsiders. But it was different for the women.

The words "innocence" and "chastity" were so firmly attached to them that when Xiang's father and brother saw Xiang Zhenzhi, their daughter who had become a man's mistress, the first thing they asked her was - why didn't she die with her grandmother, mother, sister-in-law and aunt on the day of the house search, so as to avoid torture and humiliation?

When we urged you to die that day, it was for your own good!

You must admit that as a woman, the suffering that you have to endure as a slave of sin is real. Rather than living in suffering and humiliation, it is better to die early.

This is for your own good!

But Xiang Zhenzhi is afraid of death.

She didn't have the courage to commit suicide, so when Zhou Ting, who had developed a secret crush on her for a long time, came to save her with a heart full of infatuation - or some other unpleasant thoughts - she did not hesitate to leave her father and brother in prison, and her two sisters who were imprisoned with her, and followed Zhou Ting back to the living environment that was most familiar to her but had also become extremely unfamiliar to her.

After the Xiang family was rehabilitated, Xiang Zhenzhi was glad that Zhou Ting's wife was just a commoner girl of humble origin. Although she had a son, she had already given birth to a son and a daughter for Zhou Ting and could easily replace him. On the other hand, she was very glad that her two sisters had not leaked the fact that Zhou Ting had replaced her with other prisoners. Even when their father and brothers unanimously decided that Xiang Caizhi and Xiang Xiezhi should die early on the road to exile from then on, Xiang Zhenzhi acquiesced without any uneasiness.

At first, she just wanted to survive and did not want to be exiled. She became Zhou Ting's concubine, but she was better than Zhou Ting's wife. Later, her identity was no longer shameful, so Xiang Zhenzhi wanted to become Zhou Ting's wife. In the dead of night, she had a beautiful dream in her dreams that Zhou Ting would replace the prince and she would become the prince's wife.

She thought that her family was convicted because her father and brother were not careful enough, but if she had been married and became the wife of some important person by then, she would not have suffered so many setbacks. Unfortunately, Xiang Zhenzhi had already been trapped by Zhou Ting and the two children at that time, so she could only think about seizing the position around Zhou Ting.

Even for the sake of the title of wife, he would kill another poor woman who was innocent and even unfairly dragged into this relationship.

However, Xiang Zhenzhi's dream did not last long.

She couldn't have imagined it anyway.

The "wife" that Zhou Ting and himself had carefully selected, the one who was the best to handle in terms of family background and personality and the one who was most capable of dealing with the wife of Marquis Wuwei, actually had such a big courage. Not only did she not obey their plan and die obediently, but she also followed their plan and got on that inestimably expensive boat by sheer luck.

Xiang Zhenzhi still can't forget that scene.

On the Jing River.

Seeing that Xie Yuzhen was rescued by an unknown boat, Zhou Ting immediately ordered people to drive the large boat carrying him and others over. He originally wanted to pretend to accidentally overturn the boat, but the moment the boat started moving, several ghostly shuttle boats suddenly flew out from the previously quiet river and intercepted it.

Zhou Ting and Xiang Zhenzhi were also forcibly taken to the shuttle boat by a group of people dressed in internal guard uniforms.

then.

The inconspicuous black-sailed boat swayed gently and slowly sailed over, lifting the opaque curtain - Zhou Ting's wife, the "grass bag beauty" who was useless except for her looks, her body soaked and her clothes messy, she charmingly and somewhat arrogantly occupied the arms of the tall man in the boat who was wearing a dragon-patterned suit. Just like Xiang Zhenzhi who gave up his family several times to choose to benefit alone, she shamelessly announced to the two men that she, a red apricot, had exceeded their expectations. She had climbed over the wall, abandoned the barren land of Wuwei Marquis Mansion, and took root in a fertile soil that they could not touch.

From the moment Xiang Zhenzhi saw Xie Yuzhen's eyes that were burning with hatred, he had a premonition that something bad was going to happen.

But how things developed next was beyond her understanding again and again.

Instead of feeling ashamed or blaming herself, the cheating wife brazenly used her power as the most powerful "adulterer" in the world to bully her husband's family and repeatedly bully them, determined to ruin the reputation of everyone in the Wuwei Marquis' Mansion.

Even though some people tried to persuade her by using the fact that she and Zhou Ting had a blood-related son, and tried to get her to soften her heart for the sake of the child, Xie Yuzhen's response was to decisively take the child away and completely break off ties with the Wuwei Marquisate.

The more trouble Xie Yuzhen made outside, the more miserable Xiang Zhenzhi's life became.

In the eyes of everyone in Wuwei Marquis's mansion, the reason for their family's current misfortune was not Zhou Ting's fault for being so fickle and wanting everything; nor could they blame the female members of the family, led by the Marquis's wife, for bullying and ostracizing Xie Yuzhen every day, causing her to change her character; and they could not blame Wuwei Marquis for not educating his son strictly, causing Zhou Ting to be a bad person from the root...

They blamed Xiang Zhenzhi, the daughter of a guilty minister, for being selfish, cowardly, and greedy for fame and fortune. She seduced Zhou Ting, which caused their obedient Second Young Master to do wrong things one after another. If only she wasn't there, if only this man who seduced the master wasn't there -

If only I wasn't "her".

Listening to the blame and insults from the people in Wuwei Marquis' Mansion and enduring their beatings, Xiang Zhenzhi for the first time thought that it would be better if he was a man.

Xie Yuzhen, whom she looked down upon in the past, repeatedly broke Xiang Zhenzhi's inherent understanding of this world and this circle, which gave rise to a wish in her heart - why was I born a woman and not a man?

Why can't I be a man among women?

I can't handle men, but I'm pretty good at handling women.

As long as I can step on other women, even though I cannot reach the status of men, I can still hold some of the privileges that belong to men. I can also stand on the side of a woman for a long time and classify those women who are better than me as men. In this way, I can keep my position forever!

With such delusion in mind.

Xiang Zhenzhi once again abandoned Zhou Ting and their two children who were trapped in the coal mine and turned to the arms of the Red Yang Sect.