I Refuse to Be a Concubine

Song Qinglan spent twenty years as a concubine. Her child was taken and raised on the principal wife's knee. The man said it was so the children could enjoy legitimate status.

The drums and gongs blared at her son's wedding, but the ones he bowed to were that man and his first wife. When her daughter returned to visit after marriage, Song Qinglan could only remain in her courtyard, forbidden even from leaving her room. She could only watch from afar in the garden as her daughter and the principal wife shared a tender, motherly moment. When her grandchildren were born, she was not allowed to hold them even once. Her son and daughter-in-law looked at her with disdain, as if she had no business being there.

She was only a concubine. Even stepping outside the manor would earn her accusations of improper conduct.

The man said, "Isn't it enough to see only me? Even though I married a wife, I've never touched her. I let your children inherit the family estate. I dote on you, love you, and can't live without you. Qinglan, you should be grateful!"

Hadn't she lived well? Fine clothes and delicious food, rare treasures and curiosities, everything she could want. She kept telling herself she should be grateful, but anger was always bottled up inside her, tormenting her day and night until her strength was spent and her life nearly over... Then she suddenly remembered the Song Qinglan who had once roamed a vast world, full of confidence and ambition.

It shouldn't have been this way! She was not his possession...

When she opened her eyes again, given another life, she swore she would never become a concubine!

Content warnings:

1. There are reasons the heroine became a concubine in her previous life; it was not her choice.

2. The story begins directly with the events after she is reborn.

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