[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-transmigration-from-farmer-to-empress":3,"chapter-transmigration-from-farmer-to-empress-transmigration-from-farmer-to-empress-chapter-219":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Transmigration: From Farmer To Empress",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1174510,1524,"Chapter 219 - 219 219 Swear Not To Be A Concubine(1)_1","transmigration-from-farmer-to-empress-chapter-219",219,"\u003Cp>219: Chapter 219: Swear Not To Be A Concubine(1)_1 219: 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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Today, I will tell you some of it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment she said this, Cai Wei’s instant deflection and dismissal turned into utter disbelief and astonishment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She couldn’t believe her mother held such a high status!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, yes, yes…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cai Wei nodded enthusiastically, her eyes filled with admiration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she couldn’t understand why her mother, with such a noble identity, would marry her father, a poor scholar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And, even more, endure a decade of harsh treatment from his parents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the legitimate daughters were learning literature and managing central distributions, illegitimate daughters had to learn singing and dancing to please men.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cai Wei covered her mouth in surprise, saying: “Mother, You…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>did you…?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lady Du shook her head, a bitter smile on her face, “Though I’ve always been weak, I refused to bow down to fate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few days before I was to be given away by my clan, I escaped from the Duke An’s Mansion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, your father saved me, so I married him and came here with him!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I see…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Cai Wei knew that her mother had finally overcome danger, she still worried about what her mother had gone through.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing that her mother hadn’t suffered any real harm, she finally started relaxing and sat down next to her on the bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nibbling her mother’s arm her voice full of admiration, Wei’er said, “Mother, I had no idea that you went through such a dangerous ordeal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thankfully everything is okay now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But, on second thought, it is truly amazing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You had the courage and audacity to resist an arranged marriage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Any other ordinary woman would not have dared to be so bold!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lady Du gave a smile and asked, “I have always been timid, but I would rather die than become someone’s concubine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Do you know why?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cai Wei hesitated a bit, then said, “Is it because you have high aspirations and wanted to become a wife?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lady Du asked again: “Do you know why I insisted on being a wife?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cai Wei shook her head: “I don’t know.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lady Du said, “Having been born in a Marquis’s house, I have seen all the power struggles in the back house.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Also, I have witnessed too many tragic incidents that squashed human lives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once, in Nong’an County in the suburbs of the capital city, there was a house master who married a handsome concubine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a while, she was his only favored one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But later, as people frequently say, not all flowers bloom for a hundred days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The house master had a new favorite.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bitter mistress filled the concubine’s birth canal with mashed garlic, and with stitches forced her to shut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In agony, the concubine howled day and night till she was discovered and her case was reported to the county government office.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The local magistrate, outraged by the mistress’s cruelty, decided to treat her the same way as a punishment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The house master, fearing it would ruin his reputation, begged the magistrate for mercy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The magistrate commanded him to repair the dilapidated city gate tower in exchange for leniency.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The house master poured all his wealth into repairing the tower, and people named it ‘Feng Yin Tower’ in honor of the vile 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