Qiu Yelan told her husband what she was thinking about. But he shook his head after thinking for a while, "Though my father doesn't care so much about whether a kid is the trueborn one or not as my mother does, he still cares about kids in our Jiang Family."

A concubine could be bought and sold like goods. So, concubines were not so important that even a master of a branch would value her.

"But they are still mothers who gave birth to my nieces and nephews. ...