On the night I married into the Chengxuan Earl's household as its mistress, my husband's concubine immediately gave me a humiliating welcome. The earl and my mother-in-law even told me not to make things difficult for her. My husband spoiled his concubine and neglected his wife, but I had my family behind me, and their entire household's fate in my hands. From then on, the household rules applied only to that pampered concubine. When he stepped over my threshold, I simply said, “Earl, don't come into my room.”
