While I was making love to my husband, thunder and lightning suddenly rolled across the sky. He immediately got up, saying he had to go take care of his sister-in-law. I froze, humiliation flashing across my face.
"She's a simple-minded girl. The servants can look after her."
Zhou Xuchen was displeased and dressed even faster.
He said to me,
"She's delicate and timid. Strangers would scare her."
"Unlike you, who can handle yourself just fine in brothels and taverns, and whose child is called the son of a prostitute."
His words that night were so cold they cut me to the quick.
Fine.
I won't bear his child. I'll bear the Crown Prince's instead.
But then he changed his mind.
"You're my concubine! What gives you the right to remarry?"
