Time Travel: The Noble Family

Xiang Wei knocked on the door, then came in and blew out the candle on the table, leaving only a kerosene lamp burning. Once the wick of the kerosene lamp burned out, it would automatically extinguish.

After Xiang Wei left, Yueyao slowly said, "Mingzhu, you and Ning Lixuan are well-matched in social status. With your family background, even if Ning Lixuan doesn’t like you, you needn’t fear not being able to stand firm in the Ning family. However, Mingzhu, have you ever thought about whether that kind of life is meaningful?"

Mingzhu asked confusedly, "What? What life is meaningless?" Mingzhu didn’t understand Yueyao’s meaning at once.

During their time together recently, Yueyao had treated Mingzhu as her best friend, so she spoke without much reservation, "You insist on choosing Ning Lixuan, but he doesn’t like you. After you marry him and he continues to ignore you like he does now, won’t you be sad?"

Mingzhu replied without thinking, "I will." She would definitely be very sad.

Seeing that Mingzhu was taking in her words, Yueyao continued, "You bear children for him, struggle with household chores, serve his parents, and then you have to deal with a host of concubines and concubine-born children. Do you think you want such a life?" Mingzhu had lived precisely that life in her previous existence.

Mingzhu said blankly, "But isn’t that how everyone lives?" Her mother had lived like that, so had her sister-in-law. As long as the position of the legal wife was secure and there was enough dignity, that was enough.

Yueyao sighed softly. The Lady of Marquis Jingning and the Heir Apparent did indeed live that way, but on the precondition that they did not invest all their emotions in their husbands, "Hmm, everyone does live that way. Then, what will you do when you see him taking concubines one after another—concubines who are so favored that they confront you, and yet he takes the concubine’s side?"

Mingzhu was startled; that was a question she had never considered. After a while, Mingzhu forced a smile and said, "It won’t happen, Brother Xuan wouldn’t do that."

Yueyao laughed, "Ning family’s morals are not upright; favoring concubines and discarding wives is nothing new. Your family is prominent, so Ning Lixuan wouldn’t dare discard you as wife, but he could neglect you while favoring his concubines." The fear of a legal wife is not about competing with concubines and concubine-born children, but fearing a husband who discards his wife in favor of a concubine. Ning Lixuan was obviously the latter sort of man.