The Poisonous Concubine: I Broke Character

Tang Yiyi is a concubine-born daughter. Tang Wanqing is the legitimate daughter. From the day she was born, Tang Yiyi had a calm and easygoing disposition. She liked flowers and plants, and raising little animals. She liked chatting with the maids about which young masters in the capital were handsome. Sometimes, she'd get a little lovesick. Tang Yiyi had read books since childhood and knew a little about music, chess, calligraphy, and painting. Whatever her father asked of her, she did. Yet in other people's eyes, Tang Yiyi was a wicked woman who was always throwing herself into the fray, knew nothing but fighting for favor, and kept getting humiliated by the legitimate daughter, Tang Wanqing. Growing flowers? No matter how many she raised, none would be as pretty as Tang Wanqing. So fake! Raising animals? Just trying to show off how kind she is? Everyone knows what a concubine-born girl's really after. Talking about young masters? Know your place! Trying to seduce Tang Wanqing's future husband? Obediently following Minister Tang's orders? Bah! She stole Tang Wanqing's favor. Wicked! Tang Yiyi never understood why people were so prejudiced against her. She knew her older sister was prettier than she was. Her sister could fight, was eloquent and outgoing. She knew her sister was brilliant and exceptional, too. She accepted it. What she didn't understand was why she and her mother were accused of being fake and putting on an act, after living their whole lives quietly and keeping to themselves. She would never forget the cold, disgusted look on the face of the man she had secretly loved for years as she fell. “Get lost!” Then she fell into the river. The water was so cold. Her heart turned cold, too. In the water, Tang Yiyi saw the life of the heroine, Tang Wanqing, and her own tragic fate. After she fell into the river that time, people said the concubine-born daughter had changed. Tang Yiyi: I'm not putting up with it anymore. A concubine-born daughter can thrive just as well. Theme: Birth is just a label.