Chapter 219: Swear Not To Be A Concubine(1)_1
As Lady Du entered the inner room, she sat deliberately on the bed, looked serious, and said: "Wei’er, I have never told you about your maternal grandfather’s family. Today, I will tell you some of it."
Upon hearing her mother’s serious tone, Cai Wei couldn’t help but pull a face, with a helpless gesture she said, "What do you want to say..."
Lady Du, ignoring her daughter’s dismissive look, stared out the window and said reflectively, "Actually, I am the illegitimate daughter from the Duke An’s Mansion in the capital, the Fourth Miss people often talk about."
The moment she said this, Cai Wei’s instant deflection and dismissal turned into utter disbelief and astonishment. She couldn’t believe her mother held such a high status!
Seeing her daughter’s bewildered expression, Lady Du gave a self-mocking laugh, "The grand Fourth Miss of Duke An’s Mansion, sounds prestigious and impressive, doesn’t it?"
"Yes, yes, yes..."
Cai Wei nodded enthusiastically, her eyes filled with admiration. But she couldn’t understand why her mother, with such a noble identity, would marry her father, a poor scholar. And, even more, endure a decade of harsh treatment from his parents.
Lady Du saw the confusion in her daughter’s eyes and bitterly laughed, "In reality, the status of Fourth Miss is just an empty title. Because I am an illegitimate child, I was destined to be a chess piece and commodity for clan interests, sacrificing myself for the clan’s benefit. When the legitimate daughters were learning literature and managing central distributions, illegitimate daughters had to learn singing and dancing to please men. When the legitimate daughter marries a young general with pomp and splendor, an illegitimate daughter must marry an old man who’s older than her grandfather..."