Taking My Concubine as My Wife

Author's Weibo: JJ Shi Huang Ongoing novel: The Daily Grind of a Resource-Favored Star [Entertainment Industry]. Please add it to your favorites, it's very important! [The Ambitious Plot] The official post inherited by the family passed to Lu Zheng's uncle after his father's death. Unwilling to live at someone else's mercy, Lu Zheng had to find another way forward. But once he left home, he discovered that Great Wei was in turmoil. The emperor's maternal relatives held power, noble families kept slaves, and natural disasters, human calamities, wars, and banditry left people across the land struggling to survive. Since he had been given another life, he wanted to make something of it. Lu Zheng wanted to become a strategist, someone who could devise plans for the realm. [The Romance] At first, Lu Zheng didn't particularly care for Fang Ru. But after years of affection, he couldn't bear to let her go out and suffer, so he followed his mother's arrangements and took her into his household. Only later did he realize how much more unwilling he was to part with her. He couldn't bear to see her swallow her grievances. He couldn't bear to see her serve as a maid. He couldn't even bear the thought of her spending the rest of her life living at the principal wife's mercy. This is a story of love that grows over time! Scene One While writing a book at the He residence, Lu Zheng heard that Fang Ru had fallen ill. Ignoring Dean He's disapproving glare, he hurried home. Only when he saw Fang Ru bowing to him by the moon gate did his anxious heart settle. He sent everyone else away, wanting only to take her to bed and ask her what had happened. That evening, Lu Zheng was very late in paying his respects to his mother, Madam Wang. When she questioned him, Lu Zheng lied straight-faced: